IB DIPLOMA MIDDLE YEARS PROGRAM

The International Baccalaureate Middle Year Program (IBMYP) is for students in 11-16 years age range. It is a child centered program designed on the concept of Multicultural awareness, holistic education and communication. It provides a framework with objectives that are oriented towards skills and the learning process for academic and character development appropriate to this stage of adolescence.

IB MYP Curriculum
The program requires:

• Students to study at least one course or subject from each of the 8 disciplines
• Teachers to incorporate the Areas of Interaction (AOI) themes in the teaching of their respective courses in the academic framework
• Students to complete a Personal Project
• Students to perform Community Service
• Students to create their portfolio


Note:
Pakistan Studies and Religious Studies are compulsory for Pakistani nationals

Disciplines
All courses or subjects are grouped in the following 8 disciplines:

1. Language A
   The student's best language, usually the school's language of instruction
2. Language B
   A modern foreign language learned at school
3. Humanities
   History and Geography
4. Sciences
   Biology, Chemistry, Physics
5. Mathematics
   Course including the five branches of mathematics: number, algebra, geometry and trigonometry, probability and statistics, and discrete mathematics
6. Arts
   Visual arts and performing arts
7. Physical education
   Course, including health and fitness, individual and team sports
8. Technology
   Computer and Design Technology

Areas of Interaction (AOI)
These themes are addressed through out the five-year MYP cycle.

• Approaches To Learning (ATL) which concentrates on developing effective study skills.
  
  Key Guiding questions:
  
  How do I learn best?
  How do I know?
  How do I communicate my understanding?
  
  . Community Service (CS) which creates a sense of "WE" as opposed to "I"
  
  Key Guiding questions:
  
  How do we live in relation to each other?
  How can I contribute to the community?
  How can I help others?
• Health and Social education (HSE) which creates awareness of the various aspects of health
  
  Key Guiding questions:
  
  How do I think and act?
  How am I changing?
  How can I look after myself and others?
• Environment (EN) which focuses on conservation, sustained growth and harmony with nature
  
  Key Guiding questions:
  
  Where do we live?
  What resources do we have or need?
  What are my responsibilities?
• Homo Faber (man the maker) - (HF)which is concerned with inspirational creativity and inventive genius
  
  Key Guiding questions:
  
  Why and how do we create?
  What are the consequences?