Supervisors

Personal Project Links: Timeline,  Generating Ideas, Global Contexts, Planning, Success Criteria, Research,  Personal Project Paper, Applying Skills, Reflecting, Exemplars, Requirements, Supervisors, Process Journal, Rubric, Learner Profile Traits, Inquiry Cycle, Meetings with Supervisor

SUPERVISOR TRAINING MEETINGS WITH COORDINATOR

• • September Supervisor Training Presentation Personal Project Rollout, Express Interest in Student Goals (1hour with Supervisors)

    • New Supervisors receive handbook 1) MYP Personal Project Handbook for Students and Supervisors, 2)  guiding questions for meetings, 3)  Meeting Notes/Academic Honesty Form, 4) calendar 5) rubric

    • After meeting, receive Personal Project Topics Spreadsheet  via email.

  • :Agenda Slides for Nov/Dec Personal Project check in--progress, research, taking action

  • MARCH Standardization with IB Exemplars for new supervisors only and instructions for providing feedback on rough draft (New Supervisors Only) Supervisor Training Presentation (Standardization with IB Exemplars)

  • Friday after Spring Break: All PERSONAL PROJECT PAPERS ARE DUE FOR IB AND SCORING Supervisors score their candidates papers out of 24 points, 8 points for each Criterion

  • Early APRIL Calibration Training and Instructions, Scoring of the Meridian Personal Projects and Calibration; complete Supervisor Notes on Academic Honesty form (1 to 1.5 hours with Supervisors)

  • Second Week of April: Mrs. MacFarland uploads scores and documents (paper, bibliography, academic integrity form) (MacFarland only)

  • HANDBOOK: Handbook for Students and Supervisors for the Personal Project

  • REPORT FORMAT: Format and Guidance for the Written Report

  • VIDEO RESOURCES

    • Three Assessment Criteria for the Personal Project

    • Sample and IB's Comments (Click on Play Button to hear them explain assessment)

      • Practice #1

      • Practice #2

      • Practice #3

Overview of Timing

Guiding Questions Document 

Supervisors may use these guiding questions to help them fill out the supervisor's comments on the Academic Integrity Form where the students summarize their meeting notes:

• What went well for the student and what hurdles or challenges did the student encounter?

• What skills and new learning did you see evident throughout the process for the student?

• How did their success criteria guide their product development? Where did you see evidence of success and areas for improvement?

• How has completing the project extended their learning?

• How has the student taken ownership and action during the personal project?

• How did the student approach the planning and recording of the process for the project?

• How was the goal challenging for the student?

• How did the student prepare for the Personal Project expo to showcase their learning and their product?

Assessment Criteria

24 marks

• Criterion A:  Planning,  8 marks

• Criterion B: Applying Skills, 8 marks

• Criterion C: Reflecting, 8 marks

• Rubric

  • One page rubric

Grade & Descriptor 

1  (1-4 marks) F

Produces work of a very limited quality. Conveys many misunderstandings of the process of learning independently. Very rarely demonstrates critical thinking. Very inflexible, rarely shows evidence of knowledge or skills. 

2  (5-8 marks) F

Produces a report of limited quality. Communicates limited understanding of the process of learning independently. Demonstrates limited evidence of critical thinking. Limited evidence of transfer of knowledge or approaches to learning skills into the project. 

3 (9-11 marks) C-

Produces an acceptable report. Communicates basic understanding of the process of learning independently through the project. Begins to demonstrate some basic critical thinking. Begins to transfer knowledge and approaches to learning skills into the project. 

4 (12-14) C

Produces a good-quality report. Communicates basic understanding of the process of learning independently through all stages of the cycle of inquiry. Often demonstrates critical thinking. Transfers some knowledge and some approaches to learning skills into the project. 

5 (15-17 marks) B

Produces a generally high-quality report that demonstrates a thorough process. Communicates good understanding of the process of learning independently through all stages of the cycle of inquiry. Demonstrates critical thinking, sometimes with sophistication. Usually transfers knowledge and approaches to learning skills into the project. 

6 (18-20 marks) A

Produces a high-quality report that demonstrates a thorough process. Communicates extensive understanding of the process of learning independently through all stages of the cycle of inquiry. Demonstrates critical thinking, frequently with sophistication. Transfers knowledge and approaches to learning skills into the project. 

7 (21-24 marks) A+

Produces a high-quality report that demonstrates a thorough process. Communicates comprehensive, nuanced understanding of the process of learning independently through all stages of the cycle of inquiry. Consistently demonstrates sophisticated critical thinking. Successfully transfers knowledge and approaches to learning skills into the project with independence. 

Grade Boundaries for the new rubric will not be issued until after August 2022.  However, Meridian School does have a conversion scale for 24 marks for MYP that we can use as a guide for grade boundaries.