Monthly Archives: November 2012

Week 15: Dear supervisors(students should read)

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Dear supervisors,
Thank you for your report about your student’s progress in the PPP.  I have already started to meet with students who are not on the path of success.
Remember that it is not your fault if you see that your student is not responding well to this type of challenge. It is the student’s responsibility to succeed in this project (not yours).
For example:
Students should be asking for meetings with you
It is not your job to unilaterarly schedule meetings with your student
You can suggest to your student that a meeting could be helpful
Ultimately it is their responsibility to chase you for help (not the opposite)
If you feel your student lack engagement and are not on a successful path as described in Week 15  PPP Blog post below please report to the student’s parents and to Ms Tyoschin or Mr Morin
The PPP due date is on February 6. Please do not wait for Semester 1 report to communicate issues and worries to parents (There is only 2 weeks between the Report and the PPP due date).
Thanks again for your valuable support!

Week 15: Successful Students

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At this point successful students:

– are either creating their product or have a clear plan about when and how creation will take place
– have a detailed Process Journal including all their accomplished work so far (Process Journal)
– have a variety of analyzed and anotated  sources related to their project (Select sources)
– have a number of ideas, influence, techniques which will impact the creation of their product or themselves as a person (Apply Information)
– have their AoI and goal in mind and have it clearly showing in their Process Journal and their entire project

Creation: Making your product

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During the Creation phase students are required to maintain their Process Journal with detailed and reflective entries.  It is also a time to pull out your specifications and try to respect them. The creation of your product is helping you achieve your goal.

D: Apply Information could be improve or define during Creation if it is not already completed.  Here are some paragraph starters to help you:

“These two sources contain contradicting information. I will need to determine why… First I will… ”
“Since I have learned that… (some information), this affects my project because … ”
“Based on my research, the following factors are most central in creating my product because… ”
“One way for me to test this (information) is to … (outline steps).”
“Before doing my research, I hadn’t realised that … (some information). This means that I will … ” (identify and explain some action you will take).

 Remember that you need to apply information identified from your specific sources or from other sources that you will add to your reference list. 

 

PP Initiative from around the world

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Dear International School Friends,

My name is Aseye Banini, and for the past few months I have been working on a blog for my MYP Personal Project. My blog is called “Crash Course Guide to being a Third Culture Kid”. The topic of my blog is how to be a third culture kid, or in other words an expat kid living overseas. My blog has lots of advice and stories about living abroad.

I have experience on this topic because I have lived in three different countries for fifteen years before I came to live in Ghana, the country I come from. These “foreign” countries are Australia (5years) where I was born, USA (2years) and Indonesia (8years). The blog is also good for moving around, settling down, and just figuring out what a Third Culture Kid is. I want to share this with ASA school because the things I write about might be things your students are going through. The link for the blog is www.tckness.jux.com, and if you have any comments about my blog email me at abanini@lincoln.edu.gh.  You can also sign up, to be a follower and also share your experience, at jux www.jux.com.

Sincerly

Aseye Banini,

Grade 10, Lincoln Community School

Formative Assessment

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This week you need to see your supervisor and ask for an estimate of cumulated points.  It is also the week when the Creation of your product might begin.

Your supervisor will provide feedback about your progress and will communicate a “guestimate” of your achievement for Criteria A, B, C, and maybe some of D.

You have just begun your Criterion D, so it may still be quite low.  An estimate of 7 points or less out of the possible 16 will be considered like an “at risk of failing” situation.

This is what you should have completed already:

– Criterion A: PPP process journal – approximately 10 pages of real reflection about the process and your struggles and how they were resolved

– Criterion B: introduction – complete, including product, AoI, goal, context, SPECIFICATIONS FOR PRODUCT, timeline
– Criterion C: reference list – annotated
– Criterion D: beginning stages (see sentence starters from last blog post

See Mr. Morin or the other mentors for a second look at your progress.

Mentors:

Ms Keus, Ms Tyoschin, Mr Messom, Mr Klesch, Mr Morin

 

Apply Information

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As you work on your project, you need to demonstrate that you are applying your what you have learned in your research.

As you continue to collect information and reach a wide variety of sources, take note in your process journal:

-Of Influence from sources that will impact the way you achieve your goal and create your product.

-Ideas or techniques that you will use during your process.

 

Here is the descriptor of the highest band level:

The student demonstrates well-developed transfer and application of information to make decisions, create solutions and develop understandings in connection with the
projectʼs goal.

Here are some paragraph starters that might get you thinking…

“These two sources contain contradicting information. I will need to determine why… First I will… ”
“Since I have learned that… (some information), this affects my project because … ”
“Based on my research, the following factors are most central in creating my product because… ”
“One way for me to test this (information) is to … (outline steps).”
“Before doing my research, I hadn’t realised that … (some information). This means that I will … ” (identify and explain some action you will take).

Mr Morin and Mrs. Tyoschina