What is the IB program?
The International Baccalaureate® (IB) Middle Years Programme (MYP) is for students aged 11-16.
The MYP is a challenging framework that encourages students to make practical connections between their studies and the real world. Students who complete this five-year programme are well prepared to undertake the IB Diploma Programme (DP) or Career-related Programme (CP). Find out more about the MYP.
The MYP is a challenging framework that encourages students to make practical connections between their studies and the real world. Students who complete this five-year programme are well prepared to undertake the IB Diploma Programme (DP) or Career-related Programme (CP). Find out more about the MYP.
MYP Curriculum
Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Learning
Each year, students in the MYP engage in a minimum of one collaboratively planned interdisciplinary unit that involves at least two subject groups. Increasingly, these units are inquiry-based and involve a majority of subject areas, allowing the students to explore and put their learning into context for the real world.
Personal Projects
MYP students also complete an MYP Personal Project in their final year of the programme. Through the Middle Years Programme (MYP) Personal Project, students experience the responsibility of completing a significant piece of work over an extended period of time.
MYP projects encourage students to reflect on their independent study and the outcomes of their work –their newly-developed key skills of Investigating, Planning, Taking Action and Reflecting prepare them for success in further study, the workplace and the community.
MYP projects encourage students to reflect on their independent study and the outcomes of their work –their newly-developed key skills of Investigating, Planning, Taking Action and Reflecting prepare them for success in further study, the workplace and the community.
Service in Action
Service as action, through community service
Action and service have always been shared values of the IB community. Students take action when they apply what they are learning in the classroom and beyond. IB learners strive to be caring members of the community who demonstrate a commitment to service—making a positive difference to the lives of others and to the environment. For further information about SLI's culture of Community Service, click here.
Action and service have always been shared values of the IB community. Students take action when they apply what they are learning in the classroom and beyond. IB learners strive to be caring members of the community who demonstrate a commitment to service—making a positive difference to the lives of others and to the environment. For further information about SLI's culture of Community Service, click here.
Our Approach to Teaching and Learning
The MYP aims to help students develop their personal understanding, their emerging sense of self and responsibility in their community.
Teaching and learning in the MYP is underpinned by the following concepts:
Teaching and Learning in Context
Students learn best when their learning experiences have context and are connected to their lives and their experience of the world that they have experienced. The Global Contexts help the student engage in a cycle of inquiry and a process that leads him or her from academic knowledge to thoughtful, principled action. Using Global Contexts, MYP students develop an understanding of their common humanity and shared guardianship of the planet through developmentally appropriate explorations of:
• Identities and Relationships
• Personal and Cultural Expression
• Orientations in Space and Time
• Scientific and Technical Innovation
• Fairness and Development
• Globalization and Sustainability
Conceptual Understanding
Concepts are big ideas that have relevance within specific disciplines and across subject areas. MYP students use concepts as a vehicle to inquire into issues and ideas of personal, local and global significance and examine knowledge holistically. The MYP prescribes sixteen key interdisciplinary concepts along with related concepts for each discipline
Approaches to Learning
A unifying thread throughout all MYP subject groups, approaches to learning (ATL) provide the foundation for independent learning and encourage the application of their knowledge and skills in unfamiliar contexts. Developing and applying these social, thinking, research, communication and self-management skills helps students learn how to learn and thrive in the 21st century.
Teaching and learning in the MYP is underpinned by the following concepts:
Teaching and Learning in Context
Students learn best when their learning experiences have context and are connected to their lives and their experience of the world that they have experienced. The Global Contexts help the student engage in a cycle of inquiry and a process that leads him or her from academic knowledge to thoughtful, principled action. Using Global Contexts, MYP students develop an understanding of their common humanity and shared guardianship of the planet through developmentally appropriate explorations of:
• Identities and Relationships
• Personal and Cultural Expression
• Orientations in Space and Time
• Scientific and Technical Innovation
• Fairness and Development
• Globalization and Sustainability
Conceptual Understanding
Concepts are big ideas that have relevance within specific disciplines and across subject areas. MYP students use concepts as a vehicle to inquire into issues and ideas of personal, local and global significance and examine knowledge holistically. The MYP prescribes sixteen key interdisciplinary concepts along with related concepts for each discipline
Approaches to Learning
A unifying thread throughout all MYP subject groups, approaches to learning (ATL) provide the foundation for independent learning and encourage the application of their knowledge and skills in unfamiliar contexts. Developing and applying these social, thinking, research, communication and self-management skills helps students learn how to learn and thrive in the 21st century.
