Personal Project
Personal Project
Personal Project
What is a Personal Project?
The personal project is your project to do what you want to do, to show the skills you have developed over the years in your subjects and through approaches to learning (ATL), and to apply them to the chosen goal that focuses on dimensions of the area(s) of interaction.
The personal plays a very important role in the MYP, the project should be clearly focused on an issue or theme closely related to the areas of interaction. Remember, you will be working on this project for an extended period of time, so it needs to be something you really want to do.
The personal project is a culminating event in your time in the MYP. During this time you will have developed in many ways and learned about the areas of interaction. If you choose the right personal project, it will give you the opportunity to share with others something that is of great interest to you as an individual but that also shows some of what you have learned as a result of being in the MYP.
What are the aims and objectives of a Personal Project?
The aims of the personal project are to allow students to:
- 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 areas of interaction.
- reflect on learning and share knowledge, views and opinions.
The length of the written work within a personal project varies, given the variety of types of projects that is acceptable.
The IBO expects students to express reflective thinking in a concise and precise manner. Where students write an essay to analyze an issue that they have investigated, the essay must be incorporated into the required structure. Even in that case the written work must not exceed 2000 words. However, where a student chooses creative writing (for example, a set of short stories) as a project, the length of the work will be agreed between the student and the supervisor, and the written presentation of the project (following the required structure) will be shorter, as will other projects of a creative nature.