MYP projects are culminating activities through which students present, in a truly personal way, their development of approaches to learning (ATL) skills. 

 

The personal project encourages students to practice and strengthen their ATL skills, to consolidate prior and subject-specific learning, and to develop an area of personal interest. It provides an excellent opportunity for students to produce a truly personal and often creative product/outcome and to demonstrate a consolidation of their learning in the MYP. The personal nature of the project is important; the project should revolve around a challenge that motivates and interests the individual student. 

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In the personal project, students are responsible for identifying evidence that demonstrates their development of specific skills. Project supervisors are responsible for explaining how they understand these demonstrations with respect to various achievement levels within MYP projects assessment criteria, using the task-specific clarification for personal projects. This process provides powerful feedback for student learning.