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CMMS MYP Year 3

by Kristen Shreffler

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International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program
The International Baccalaureate® aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.

To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.

These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.
8th Grade
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Learning Experiences & Opportunities
Eighth grade is Year 3 of the International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Program (MYP). Teachers spend time at the beginning of the school year engaging students in the culture at Crete-Monee Middle School. Students continue to discuss the MYP with a focus on the 6 Global Contexts, IB Learner Profile Traits, and Approaches to Learning (AtL) skills. AtL skills continue to be a focus for students in seventh grade.

MYP is a framework for quality curriculum design and instruction. The 6 Global Contexts help to focus learning within and across the eight subjects. The subjects are Arts, Design, Individuals & Societies, Language Acquisition, Language & Literature, Mathematics, Physical & Health Education, and Science.
8th graders begin each day with their advisor in a 27 minute advisory. During advisory, students have time to connect with their advisor, hear the daily announcements, and prepare for their day. Students also work on PBIS lessons, MYP Character traits lessons, Community Project, and Second Step during this time.
Eighth graders are required to take the following courses for the entire school year: Individuals & Societies, Language Acquisition, Language & Literature/Reading, Physical & Health Education, Mathematics, and Science. Students who need additional academic support will have an opportunity to take courses offered at the appropriate instructional level. The placement in these intervention courses is based on specific criteria.
Eighth grade students will have Design Tech daily for one trimester and Connections daily for one trimeter. The other trimester will be one of the Arts courses. The course could be Art, Communication Art, or Music.
Conceptual Learning in the MYP Classroom
Conceptual learning focuses on powerful organizing ideas that have relevance within and across subject groups. Concepts reach beyond national and cultural boundaries. They help to integrate learning, add coherence to the curriculum, deepen disciplinary understanding, build the capacity to engage with complex ideas and allow transfer of learning to new contexts.
-MYP: From principles into practice
MYP classrooms are active, engaging and focused around inquiry.