1. IB, MYP, and the Unit planner
Created by: Ashish Vadalia

2. Todays Outcome
Teaching Professionals will be able to examine best teaching practices and correlate them to the IB MYP curriculum requirements.

3. Objective: Complete the 24 piece puzzle as quickly as possible.
Puzzle Activity
Objective: Complete the 24 piece puzzle as quickly as possible.
Group A: You will be given a puzzle in the box and asked to complete the puzzle together as a group. Please do not start until all groups have received the puzzle pieces.
Group B: You will be given a puzzle in a bag and asked to complete the puzzle individually at your tables. Please do not start until all groups have received the puzzle pieces.

4. That’s not fair! Group A Group B
Were allowed to work collaboratively on the task
Had the benefit of end product image to compare pieces to.
Image provided on puzzle was familiar to participants
Group B
Must work individually to plan the arrangement of puzzle pieces
Must complete the task without knowing what the end product should look like.
Had to work on a puzzle that dealt with an abstract image.

5. Relationship to Teaching
Collaborative planning
Planning for education is better when it can be done collaboratively with your peers.
Backwards mapping
Teaching is more effective when you teach with the end (assessment) in mind
Real world application
Application of skills to real world scenarios allows student's to “take” content and use it beyond the walls of the school.
Effective Teaching
Real World Application
Backwards Mapping
Collaborative Planning

6. We don’t want this to be our kids
So how can we avoid this scenario while also having effective teaching practices?

8. IB
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The International Baccalaureate is an organization in charge of 4 international education programmes that serves over 1 million students all over the world.
The 4 programmes
Primary Years Programme
Middle Years Programme
Diploma Programme
IB Career related Programme
Each programme is unique and can be run independently, however when run together they form the IB Continuum.
Regardless of programme, the IB mission stays constant.

9. How does IB MYP help solve our problems?
IB is:
A rigorous curriculum framework – any local curriculum can filter through the framework
Relevant and meaningful to students
Backward curricular design
International/globally minded
Holistic – 8 subjects taught in 6-10th grade:
Arts, Humanities, Language A, Mathematics, Language B, Technology, Science, & P.E.

10. Don’t worry … be happy IB is not: A different or harder curriculum
Exclusive to advanced students
More work for the students
Form filling

11. IB MYP: What does it look like in practice?
As Evident In Academics:
All 9th -10th grade students required to participate
Emphasis on language and technology
Paradigm shift in teacher pedagogy (MYP Unit Planner)
Align IBO objectives to local objectives (Common core.. etc.)
Collaborative Planning

12. IB MYP: What does it look like in practice? Cont.
As Evident In Academics:
Criterion based assessments (subject specific)
Personal Project in the 10th grade year – similar to an action research project by each student
Incorporate the Learner Profile into student activities (academic and non-academic.)

13. THE HOLY GRAILs of teaching IB
MYP: Unit planner
MYP: Principles into practice
Tool for collaborative planning
Backwards mapping
Info on inquiry based education
How to plan and report student achievement
Subject specific curriculum guide

14. Expectations
The 8 subject areas will plan ALL units with the end assessment in mind.
Backwards mapping is evident in order to support the end assessment task.
The end assessment task is graded using the appropriate criterion.
Assessment tasks show real world applications to relatable scenarios.

15. Further Support
I will be coming to many of your collaborative planning meetings over the next few weeks in order to help you begin the exciting process of using the MYP unit planner to facilitate education.
Date
Focus
Aug. Meeting
MYP Induction Training
Sept. Training
IB Subject Objective Alignment and Subject Unit Planning
Oct Training
What the IB Classroom Looks Like: Incorporating AOI, unit questions, and learner profile with everyday instruction.
Nov. Training
MYP Assessment and Criterion Grading
Jan. Training
Reflection & Adjustment of Unit Planner

16. Work Cited
All information for this presentation was obtained from the IB MYP Basics, and IB MYP Principles into Practice
Images for various slides are tagged in the notes for the corresponding slides.