Transcript Personal Project

Personal Project
YLM, Monday, September 2nd 2013
What is the Personal Project?
• Year 10 only
• A summative assignment
• Formal expression of what the student has learned
during their years in the MYP, culmination of the
MYP
• Focus on one areas of interaction and reflect a topic
of a real interest to the student, driven by an AoI
• Final objectives and final criteria
• Entirely student driven
• Teachers as supervisors
Elements of the Personal Project
• Product & Journal
• Written reflection about process
• PP Fair
Aims & Objectives
AIMS
• Demonstrate the personal abilities and skills
required to produce and present an extended piece
of work.
• Engage in personal inquiry, action and reflection on
specific topics and issues.
• Focus on, and demonstrate an understanding of the
AOI.
• Reflect on learning and share knowledge, views and
opinions.
Aims & Objectives
OBJECTIVE
• A. Use the process journal
• B. Define the goal
• C. Select sources
• D. Apply information
• E. Achieve the goal
• F. Reflect on learning
• G. Report the project
Objective A Use the process journal
Students should:
• demonstrate organizational skills
through time and self-management
• communicate and collaborate with the
supervisor
• demonstrate information literacy,
thinking and reflection.
Process journal
Objective B Define the goal
Students should:
• identify and explain a topic based on
personal interest
• justify one focus area of interaction as a
context for the project
• outline a clear, achievable, challenging goal
• create specifications that will be used to
evaluate the project’s outcome/product.
Report
Objective C Select sources
Students should:
• select varied, relevant sources to achieve the
goal
• evaluate sources.
Report
Objective D Apply information
Students should:
• transfer and apply information to make
decisions, create solutions and develop
understandings in
• connection with the project’s goal.
Report
Objective E Achieve the goal
Students should:
• evaluate the outcome/product
against their own specifications for
success. Students award a level that
relates to the descriptors in criterion
E in collaboration with their
supervisor.
Product and Report
Objective F Reflect on learning
Students should:
• reflect on how completing the project has
extended their knowledge and understanding
of the topic and the focus area of interaction
• reflect on how they have developed as a
learner by completing the project
Report
Objective G Report the project
Students should:
• organize the project report according to the
required structure
• communicate clearly, coherently and concisely,
within required limits
• acknowledge sources according to recognized
conventions.
Report
What steps should I follow ?
1.Themes or Topics
PP Committee
2. Proposal
3. Resources
4. Working on the Project
5. Outcome: Structured Writing
PP Supervisor
PERSONAL PROJECT TIMELINE 2013-2014
Items
Time
Personal Project Introductory
Week 3 (YLM – Monday, 2nd September 2013), term 1, 2013
Create a proposal
2nd – 13th September 2013
Personal Project Proposal Due
Friday, 13th September 2013
Supervisor allocation
13th – 20th September 2013
Initial meeting with supervisor
23rd September 2013
Submit Timeline (Outline Plan)
27th September 2013
Working on the project
September 2013 -February 2014
PP Progress report
October 2013
Tutorial sessions
January - February 2014
Personal Project Product Completed*
Friday, 28th February 2014
Year Level Meeting sessions
1 session each per term
Personal Project Report Due
Friday,11th April 2014
PP exhibition
Thursday, 24th April 2014
Feedback and grades
21th - 25th April 2014
PP Final report
June 2014
What exactly do I have to create for
the Personal Project?
You must create three items:
• A process journal
• A product or outcome for display that shows
other people what you did
• A project report
The Process Journal
• Your process journal is the record of your
involvement in the Personal Project process. It
should record all your ideas, your planning, your
discussions, clippings of readings and concepts,
diary excerpts, meeting schedules and outcomes
with your supervisor, photographs – whatever
you do that is part of the process should be kept
in this document. You choose the format of your
journal. It might be a scrapbook, a note book, an
electronic site for example.
The Product or Outcome
• The product you create is how you show other
people what you have investigated. Apart from
your journal, which will be part of the display, you
need to have some way of showing what you
produced or achieved for your goal. This might be
the actual product such as a model, electronic
article, artwork or it might be visuals of the
outcome such as photographs of an event you
organised.
The Project Report
• The report you produce will be in written
format. You will need to think carefully about
how you report your project and how you
work best.
• The important thing to think about for your
project is to identify something YOU want to
explore and find out more about.
Types of Personal Projects
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Original work of art
A written piece of work
A piece of literary fiction
An original science experiment
An invention
Business, management organizational plan
etc
An International recipe book
A scientific model
A photo exhibition
• So how is it supposed to be driven by an Area
of Interaction ?
• What are the Areas of Interaction again ?
– Approaches to Learning (ATL)
– Community & Service
– Human Ingenuity (formerly Homo Faber)
– Health & Social Education
– Environments
Service for elderly Hansen’s disease patients
Community and Service
• Visited patients at a local
leprosarium and then suggested
improvements.
• researched the history, created a
questionnaire and shared with peers
• Techniques that he used for
improving the patients’ condition
included ice-breaking activities,
simple conversation and letter
writing.
The other side of the fence
Health and Social Education
• An essay designed to change people’s attitudes towards
orphans and inform about their living conditions
• Researched on Internet.
• Questionnaires & Interviews with orphanage staff and the
children plus other peoples attitudes about orphans
• Surveyed people about their views on orphanages and
orphans, before & after
reading her article.
A medical guidebook for Suzhou expatriates
Health and Social Education
• user-friendly
medical
guidebook for
English-speaking
expatriates living
in Suzhou,
China.
Create a calendar for a
charity based on the theme education?
Community and Service
• Design and create a calendar
called “everybody deserves an
education” and composed
pictures, using students from her
school, to represent 12 different
school subjects.
• A professional printer & identified
a sponsor in a medical company.
• She decided to donate the
proceeds from the calendar sales
to UNICEF.
Creating a comic
human ingenuity
• produced a comic for the patients
in the hospital in which he was
born. (100th anniversary. )
• He therefore chose to design a
comic to give to children in the
hospital, to entertain them during
their long and difficult periods of
treatment.
• He also received financial support
from the organization Fondation
Jeunes-PROJET.
The supervisors’ responsibilities are to:
• ensure the chosen personal project topic satisfies
appropriate legal and ethical standards with regard to
health and safety, confidentiality, human rights, animal
welfare and environmental issues
• provide guidance to students in the planning, research
and completion of the personal project
• confirm the authenticity of the work submitted
• assess the personal project according to the criteria
• take part in the internal standardization of assessment
process established by the school.
PERSONAL PROJECT 2012-2013
SUPERVISOR’S CHECKLIST FOR PERSONAL PROJECT MEETINGS
MEETING 1 (September)
• Prior to this meeting, students will have chosen their topic, completed a questionnaire, filled
in the proposal form and made at least one entry in a process journal or log book (Electronic
versions are probably best, but the students may purchase of buy a diary if they like) They
should have introduced themselves to you and arranged a regular meeting time.
Student’s responsibilities:
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Discuss and emphasize the importance of commitment for your project (establish
a contract if necessary).
Read the personal project journey guidelines and make journal
Finalized topic – Student must have a clear idea of the product that they will be
creating.
Student has begun to write research questions that are focused on their chosen
Area/s of Interaction
Understand and review the summative assessment criteria (Personal Project IBO
Guide)
Discuss expectations for next meeting: students should create a brief working
outline or plan in their process journal, begin to record and gather potential
sources, and record all ideas in their process journal (student note these
expectations in the process journal)
Personal Project Meeting Record Form
Meeting No : ____
Start Time : ____
Date
Finish
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Items discussed:
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Development:
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Achievements:
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Problems (if any):
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Tasks for Next Meeting:
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Student’s signature
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Supervisor’s signature
How do you start ?
1. Explore and choose a theme
- discuss ideas with different people
- focus on one of interaction
- set realistic goals
- complete personal project proposal
- consult with personal project committee
2. Find a supervisor (teachers, student support
teachers)
Their Role :
- Provide guidelines,
- Help the students complete the project
- Assess work (formative & summative)
3. Planning the project
- define the investigation
- choose sources of material
- outside resources including people
- make a list of tasks
- establish a time line
4. Working on the project
- collecting necessary materials
- follow structure of personal project
- consult supervisor regularly
- keep process journal/log book
- length around 4000 words
- normal timetable
- time management
5. Presenting the project
- Various types
- Structured writing
- School exhibition – PP exhibition
Note to Students
• This logbook should be used to record the progress of
your project. It is your responsibility to look after it.
• At the end of each meeting with your supervisor you
should fill out a brief record of your meeting. Both
you and your supervisor should sign it.
• On completion of the project this logbook must be
submitted or attached with your project report, and will
be used to assist in assessing your work.
The
submission of your logbook with your project is
compulsory.
SAMPLE OF A PERSONAL PROJECT
PROPOSAL
• Student’s name:
Pak Liam
Tutor Group: 10C
• Title: Hand-washing habits of school aged children in Indonesia
• Area of Interaction and why: Community and Service because it would be
a service to the community to improve basic hygiene thus preventing a
wide range of diseases.
• Goal: (What do you want to achieve from this project?)
• To develop hand-washing habits of school aged children at Desa Parigi,
Tangerang
• Product : (How can you achieve the goal?)
• A school teaching programme that I will develop for visiting schools.
(including activities and lesson plans) I can show this by making a scrap
book of my visits.
• Is this a good proposal for a PP ? Explain why …
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SAMPLE OF A PERSONAL PROJECT
PROPOSAL
• Student’s name:
Pak David
Tutor Group: 10A
• Title: Indonesia’s Environment
• Area of Interaction and why: Human Ingenuity
• Goal: (What do you want to achieve from this project?) To
make a poster
• Product : (How can you achieve the goal?) Poster of Indonesia
• Is this a good proposal for a PP ? Explain why …
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PP Proposal Form
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PERSONAL PROJECT PROPOSAL
School Year 2013 - 2014
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Student’s name: _____________________
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Proposal One
Title: _________________________
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Area of Interaction and rationale:
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Goal: (What do you want to achieve from this project?)
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Product: (How can you achieve the goal?)
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Tutor Group: 10_________
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Proposal Two
Title: _______________________________
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Area of Interaction and rationale:
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Goal: (What do you want to achieve from this project?)
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Product: (How can you achieve the goal?)
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DUE to B.Popy by 3.00pm Friday, 13th September 2013