This document provides guidance for students on the process of developing an independent project for the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. It instructs students to review slides in their process journal that relate to approaches to learning, areas of interaction, and expectations for different subject groups. Students are asked to reflect on these areas in written form. The document then outlines specific tasks for brainstorming project ideas, meeting with supervisors, developing goals and specifications to evaluate their project, and identifying necessary resources and skills.

2. You will need your PJ,your PC/mac & your
downloaded Student Guide
Look at each of the following slides while
you look through your process journal.
Respond in written form (notes, lists....) to
each of them

3. Thinking & reflecting skills
Communicating verbally, in written form
Retrieving, selecting information
Evaluating sources
Acknowledging academic honesty
Collaborating (1st meetings with
supervisor)
Working independently

4. Idea/ inquiry:
Approaches to
Learning
Human Ingenuity
Environments
Community &
Service
Health & Social
Education

5. C&S learning expectations:
 Making a contribution to the community
 Helping others & realising consequences of
action
 Acting responsibly
Can you provide a rational for your choice
based on the above?

6. Environments learning expectations:
How our actions affect environments
Our responsibilities to the environment
Can you provide a rational for your choice
based on the above?

7. HI learning expectations:
What is created, invented, done
The impact of what is created
Can you provide a rational for your choice
based on the above?

8. H & Social Ed learning expectations:
How you act, how you think, its impact(s)
How you look after yourself
How you make the correct decisions
Can you provide a rational for your choice
based on the above?

9. demonstrate organizational skills through
time and self-management
 communicate and collaborate with the
supervisor… Have you met with your
supervisor?
 demonstrate information literacy, thinking
and reflection

10.  Brainstorming 1° ideas – lists, mappings, notes,
sketches, cut outs...
 Pages from PP StudentGuide:
1. criteria/objectives tick lists ( A and B for now)
2. activities using pages
 Areas of Interaction pages
 Approaches to Learning pages
 Recorded meetings with supervisor – log sheets
 1° resources: expert ideas, journal/ mag cuttings,
images site info (ALL cited)

11.  identify and explain a topic based on personal
interest
 justify one focus area of interaction as a context
for the project
 outline a clear, achievable, challenging goal
 create specifications that will be used to
evaluate the project’s outcome/product.

12. This is a list of everything you need to do/
find/ see/ meet/ learn..... in order to
achieve the goal
You will use these specifications to self-
assess your goal later in the process - E:
achieve the goal
Have you done this? If not, do so!

13.  What do I want my outcome or product to look/ be
like?
 What will I need to use/ collect such as materials?
 What techniques/ skills do I need?
 May I need to learn more or refine what I can
already do?
 What type of information do I need to include?
Which experts can help me?
 How can I show/ present my information?
 What else do I need: visual or audio?
 What is my purpose and who is my audience?