All About The International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme
GRADE 6 - 10
The IBMYP emphasizes the process of learning – helping students learn how to learn – while maintaining the integrity of the discrete subjects. It is a learner-centered program based on a strong belief that to be effective global citizens, students need to:
• Experience a curriculum that is both broad and allows concepts to be explored in depth;
• Have opportunities to reflect on their learning and behaviour in order to engender positive change in themselves;
• Communicate effectively in their mother - tongue language and the language of instruction (at WAB this is English) as well as having access to other languages;
• Have opportunities to take part in meaningful community and service activities;
• Reflect on the world around them and their place within it.
The IBMYP is a holistic program that recognizes the need to balance the academic, emotional and physical life of students in order to help them make informed choices and see the value of a well-balanced lifestyle. Importantly, it is a program that supports schools in developing curriculum that is responsive to both an ever-changing world and the challenges and opportunities of the local context.
MYP Appropriateness to Young Adolescents
The IBMYP recognizes that students of this age group are in a particularly critical phase of personal and intellectual development. It recognizes that young adolescence is a time of uncertainty, sensitivity, resistance and questioning. The IBMYP seeks to provide young adolescents with an educational program that offers structure, skills and challenging standards, but also creativity and flexibility. The IBMYP also strives to help students develop their own personal value system that will guide their own lives as thoughtful members of local and global communities.
