Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School

Middle Years Program

The International Baccalaureate
Middle Years Program
(MYP)

       Ms. Meredith Mirkow, Coordinator
         (301)951-6647

                                                                GENERAL INFORMATION  

           

          General Regulations                             

          Student Guide to the Personal Project                                            
          Mentor Handbook for MYP 10 

          Exhibition Guidelines    

          Exhibition Questionaire 

          Exhibition Display Placard Template  

 

Note: For  additional Information go to the  B-CC IB/MYP Edline webpage for 9th grade and 10th grade 

 

 

                                                           IMPORTANT DATES FOR MYP STUDENTS

           

MYP Dates for 2011-2012 

 

     

             ANNOUNCEMENTS           

IN-SCHOOL MYP MENTORING MEETING  

 FOR 10th GRADERS ON FRIDAY, JAN. 27, 2012

 

 

        

What is MYP?

The MYP is a coherent and comprehensive curriculum that provides a framework of academic challenges and life skills appropriate to students ages 11-16. The program is intended to promote the education of the whole person, emphasizing the importance of a broad and balanced education. Our objectives in the classroom setting include skills and processes building around a framework of concepts; our aim is to teach not only content knowledge, but to also help students to develop a genuine understanding of the underlying principles in each discipline and to apply these in new context, in preparation for further learning.

In addition, the program aims to promote:

• A more coherent understanding of the world around us
• Responsible citizenship
• Learn how to learn, make learning a life-long process

MYP at B-CCHS

Students come to Bethesda-Chevy Chase HS from Westland MS to complete their final two years of the IB Middle Years Program. Here students will study a curriculum merging the Montgomery County Public Schools Instructional Guides with the MYP curricular framework. Simply stated, students will benefit from the MYP approach to academic study and life skills now immersed in the MCPS requirements. Our goal is to offer every ninth and tenth grade student at B-CC a more comprehensive course of study.

Why MYP at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School?

Most ninth-grade students are at an important juncture in adolescence; having left the comfortable world of middle school, they now enter the high school environment where they must quickly adjust to a new “operating system.” They are entering a phase where their social and cultural experiences, inside and out of school, have a great impact on their perception of themselves and their ability to deal with others. The Middle Years Program was developed to offer a degree of diversity needed at the ninth-grade level. Here, as in the tenth-grade, the MYP curriculum emphasizes developing learning skills, attitudes and knowledge needed to participate in an increasingly global society.

How are the final two years of MYP actualized at B-CCHS? 

• All identified students are enrolled in a foreign language in 9th and 10th grade
• Students maintain a work portfolio in each of the eight subject areas (math, science, English/history, art, technology, foreign language, PE, and history) including one or more assessment tasks
• Every identified student submits a Personal Project at the end of the tenth grade
• A more concerted effort to work as an educational community among the grade level teachers
• Emphasis on greater community service and involvement in intercultural activities

 

 

 

 

return to top of page