This document provides guidance for brainstorming a personal project. It discusses meeting with a supervisor to get feedback and clarification on project goals and assessment criteria. Students are encouraged to explore topics they find interesting that allow them to extend their skills and knowledge. The process journal is identified as a key component and students are given suggestions on how to organize it based on approaches to learning skills like research, critical thinking and communication. Formatting options for the process journal are also discussed. Finally, students are prompted to begin brainstorming potential project topics by relating an interest area to a global context and exploration strand to develop a question or goal for their personal project.

1. Brainstorming
Personal Project
18-May-2016

2. Session objectives
Brainstorming
Brainstorm ideas for
your MYP Personal
Project
Process Journal
Explore ways to
document your journal
Communication
Understand the role
of the supervisor and
channels of
communication
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3. Pairing up with a supervisor?
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4. What is the role of
the supervisor?
What is NOT
the responsibility of
the supervisor?
How often
should you meet
your supervisor?
By Shane Willis, GB

5. The supervisor’s role
• Help stay focus on Goal
• Guide planning, research and
completion
• Guidelines - time management
and deadlines
• Formative feedback
• Advice on process journal
• Clarify assessment-criteria
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6. Phase 1 Conversation
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7. Communication Channels

8. Personal Project components
Personal project components How it is assessed?
The process journal Evident in the presentation/report
The product / outcome A selection of 10 extracts in appendices
of the report
The report (max. 3500 words)
The content of the report assessed
using all the four criteria
What format are you using for your process journal?
What makes it a good format to use?

9. Process journal

10. What should be included in the journal
as evidence of the inquiry process?
• mind maps
• bullet lists
• charts
• short paragraphs
• notes
• action plans
• self and peer assessment
feedback
• timelines
• annotated illustrations
• annotated research
• interview scripts
• pictures
• screenshots of blog or website

11. Approaches to Learning (ATL)
Skills

12. Organize
the process journal
based on ATL skills
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13. What should you be
brainstorming?• Consider ways of brainstorming
• Consider your interest and prior
experience
• Consider what would extend your interest,
knowledge, and skills
• List all topics that interest you
• Relate it with one global context that fits
in naturally and identify one exploration
strand
• Explore ideas and solutions to issues
• Choose a question or statement that
makes you feel happy and confident to
work with for many months
• Mind map the plan for achieving the goal
• Begin to outline a goal and working
towards creating a highly challenging goal Photo credit: nist6dh via VisualHunt / CC BY-SA

14. Rap Music
Identities and
Relationships
Examine the
question, “Why does
rap speak to me?”
Orientation
in space and time
Explore the
development of rap
as a style of music
across continents
Personal and cultural
expression
Perform a rap song for
peers and have a
question-and-answer
session

15. Photo credit: Rob Enslin via Visualhunt.com / CC BY
Let the
MESSY
process
begin!