The meeting PowerPoint relating to the 6th October meeting "Aspects of your Personal Project"

1. Identities and relationships
Orientation in space and time
Personal and cultural expression
Scientific and technical innovation
Globalization and sustainability
Fairness and development
The MYP global contexts have been selected to provide a lens with which to
consider international mindedness.
Sit in groups of people who have selected the same global context

2. Aspects of a personal project
Aim: To join communities that will help inform
your personal project through consideration of
your selected global context

3. Global context task
• Consider you personal project
• Remind yourself why you identified the
related global context
• Justify to the person next to you how your
personal project support society within the
context of you selected global context?

4. How did that feel
• Did you have lots to say?
• Were you confident?
• Did you feel
knowledgeable?
• Did you not have things to
say?
• Were you nervous?
• Did you feel out of your
depth?

5. • The selected global context should inform the direction of your
personal project
• Consideration of the global context is explicitly required throughout the
personal project criteria so should act as a foundation for your project
Global contexts in the PP

6. Global contexts in the PP
Should underpin your goal

7. Should inform your
product
Global contexts in the PP

8. Should be reflected
upon
Global contexts in the PP

9. In global context groups
• Identify the
similarities between
your projects
• Identify the
differences between
your projects

10. Brainstorm
• Place your project at the centre
of an A3 sheet
• Around your project display all
of the different aspects of your
project including the global
context
Example:
Project – Write and publish a poetry book reflecting upon about being a
third culture kid
Aspects: Poetry writing, Book publishing, Third culture kid experiences,
Personal and cultural expression

11. Find communities
• Under each aspect find and list relevant
communities (forums, google + groups, websites,
chatrooms) which could inform your project
Third Culture Kids:
TCKID.com – a home for third culture kids
denizenmag.com – a magazine for TCK
Publishing:
Self publishing google + group
libboo.com – help authors get
discovered
Poetry:
Allpoetry.com – World’s largest
online poetry site
www.powerpoetry.org – Largest
online teen poetry
Personal and cultural expression:
Prezzi - Global contexts by John Harvey
Youtube - Global Contexts: Personal and
Cultural Expressions. By: Jessica Garcia and
Evelyn Whitworth

12. • Get involved with one or
some of the “community
of practice” identified
• Document all of these
experiences in you PP
process journal
Your task for the next month

13. The following slides should be printed out and
laminated and used to support stages of this task

14. Who am I? Who are we?
 Students will explore identity; beliefs
and values; personal, physical,
mental, social and spiritual health;
human relationships including
families, friends, communities and
cultures; what it means to be human.
Identities and relationships

15. What is the meaning of “when” and “where”?
 Students will explore personal
histories; homes and journeys;
turning points in humankind;
discoveries; explorations and
migrations of humankind; the
relationships between, and the
interconnectedness of, individuals
and civilizations, from personal,
local and global perspectives.
Orientation in space and time

16. What is the nature and purpose of creative expression?
 Students will explore the ways in
which we discover and express
ideas, feelings, nature, culture,
beliefs and values; the ways in
which we reflect on, extend and
enjoy our creativity; our
appreciation of the aesthetic.
Personal and cultural expression

17. How do we understand the worlds in which we live?
 Students will explore the natural
world and its laws; the interaction
between people and the natural
world; how humans use their
understanding of scientific principles;
the impact of scientific and
technological advances on
communities and environments; the
impact of environments on human
activity; how humans adapt
environments to their needs.
Scientific and technical innovation

18. How is everything connected?
 Students will explore the
interconnectedness of human-made
systems and communities; the
relationship between local and global
processes; how local experiences
mediate the global; reflect on the
opportunities and tensions provided by
world interconnectedness; the impact of
decision-making on humankind and the
environment.
Globalization and sustainability

19. What are the consequences of our common humanity?
 Students will explore rights
and responsibilities; the
relationship between
communities; sharing finite
resources with other people
and with other living things;
access to equal opportunities;
peace and conflict resolution.
Fairness and development