Complete record of everything you do for your Personal Project.
4 Items to your supervisor before 4:00 pm on 24th of February: (make appointment to ensure presence)
–Academic Honesty Form filled and signed
-The Final PP Report with Extract of Process Journal (max. 10 A4 pages) in appendix
–Product Completed or Evidence of Outcome Achieved
-The complete Process Journal
An incompleted Draft of Report is better than no draft at all! You will receive feedback on what you have completed already. This will help you focus on what needs to be done to finish. Show and provide to your supervisor:
Book an appointment in person with your supervisor before 16:00 on Wednesday.
Good work!
You can use this to narrow down an area of focus within the Global Contexts:Contextual explorations
The NIS PPP Student Guide contains a time line, step by step process, tips and reminders to support you in your journey.
Friday September 18 during extended advisory: all Grade 10 students will meet in the MYP LGR at 8:05
Please bring:
Your 3 Boxes signed by PP supervisor and at least one PP mentor.
The PP mentors are:
Amy Keus <amykeus@staff.nanjing-school.com>Robin Marsh <robinmarsh@staff.nanjing-school.com>Minza Snyder <minzasnyder@nanjing-school.com>Ruth Clarke <ruthclarke@staff.nanjing-school.com>Andrew Messom <andrewmessom@staff.nanjing-school.com>Emily Johnson <emilyjohnson@staff.nanjing-school.com>Francis Morin <francismorin@staff.nanjing-school.com>
Reminder: All meetings and actions related to PP are documented and analyzed in the Process Journal. Your journal can include different media format such as video, audio or hand written entries. See the “NIS PPP Student Guide” to bring quality in your journal entries.
Samples showing dates from August through February.
Samples are truthful (your supervisor will know if you add embellishments!)
Samples show your self-management, research, thinking, and communication skills.
Some sources are shown. They are correctly cited and are evaluated for positives, negatives, biases, etc.
You’ve included your original goal and a plan for doing it.
Samples show discussion of problems that came up and how you fixed them.
Samples show what your supervisor discussed and what you did based on the feedback.
Reflections are critical and not just narrations.
Here is this year’s PPP guide.
These are the notes we took during homeroom.
The Process Journal is:
in a format decided by the student
a place for planning, drafting and sketching
a place for recording interactions with sources, ie: teachers, supervisors, external sources
a place for storing useful information — quotes, pictures, ideas, written sources
a means of exploring ideas and alternatives
a place for reflection on stages of the project
a place for evaluating work completed
a place for reflecting on learning
a place to react after receiving formative feedback
a collection of all the information needed to produce the project report
The first draft of your report is due on Friday to your supervisor.
Please plan a meeting in person :
Report Structure:
Title Page ( Student name, school name, year, title of project and length (word count if written)
Introduction including (Context, a clear goal, how you intend to achieve your goal and an AoI focus)
Selection of Sources
Application of Information
Achieving the goal
Reflection on Learning
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Appendices to report
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Coming up next week and due before Friday of week 20
Excerpt of Process Journal
10 to 20 of your best entries from your process journal
You should select entries showing well developed:
organisation skills, collaboration with supervisor, information literacy, thinking and reflection
(If you have less than 20 entries all together it may be good to only present your best 10 out of 20)
Week 18: Meet your supervisor this week to:
1. Present update on “almost completed” product
2. Present up to date process journal ( not on the computer screen anymore)
3. Show to supervisor “applied information” during creation
4. Get a “guestimated” grade for Criterion A again, and a first impression of D
5. Present plan of action to complete product and report (see due dates below)
Remember:
A: Product completed and “submittable” to supervisor on Friday of week 19.
B: First Draft of PPP Report due to supervisor on Friday of week 20.
C: PPP Product and PPP final Report due to PPP coordinator (Mr. Morin) on February 6 (Week 22).
D: PPP exhibition on March 7 (Week 24)
At this point successful students: