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MYP Personal Project

Personal project

MYP students in their final year explore an area of personal interest over an extended period. It provides them the opportunity to consolidate their learning and develop important skills they’ll need in both further education and life beyond the classroom. It also helps them develop confidence to become principled, lifelong learners.

Elements of the personal project

The personal project formally assesses students’ approaches to learning (ATL) skills for self-management, research, communication, critical and creative thinking, and collaboration.

Students complete three elements:

  1. product or outcome—evidence of tangible or intangible results: what the student was aiming to achieve or create
  2. process journal—ideas, criteria, developments, challenges, plans, research, possible solutions and progress reports
  3. report—an account of the project and its impact, to a structure that follows the assessment criteria. The report includes a bibliography and evidence from the process journal that documents students’ development and achievements.

The report is assessed by the supervisor and externally moderated by the IB to ensure a globally consistent standard of excellence. Each project is awarded a final achievement grade.

Further information

IB World Schools can learn more about the MYP personal project in the MYP personal project nano PD, or find a workshop for MYP teachers.

Starting with the personal project? IB World Schools can find hints and tips about the personal project in a blog series called 'How to prosper with MYP personal projects'.

Other must reads for IB World Schools include the following documents on the programme resource centre:

Check what our MYP students do in their MYP Personal Project.