Middle Years Programme

List of 4 items.

• Teaching and Learning in Context

  The MYP requires that teachers at Glenlyon Norfolk School build context around student learning experiences so that students understand why their learning is relevant and meaningful. Using global contexts, MYP students develop an understanding of their common humanity and shared guardianship of the planet through explorations of:
  
  

  • Identities and relationships (Who am I? Who are we?)
  • Personal and cultural identity (What is the nature and purpose of creative expression?)
  • Orientations in space and time (What is the meaning of “when” and “where”?)
  • Scientific and technical innovation (How do we understand the worlds in which we live?)
  • Fairness and development (What are the consequences of our common humanity?)
  • Globalization and sustainability (How is everything connected?)

• Conceptual Learning

  Throughout Grades 6 to 10, our units of study require the students to explore sixteen key interdisciplinary concepts along with related concepts for each subject area. These timeless, universal, big ideas bring focus and depth to student learning.
  
  

  Aesthetics	Change	Communication	Communities
  Connections	Creativity	Culture	Development
  Form	Global interactions	Identity	Logic
  Perspective	Relationships	Time, place and space	Systems

• Approaches to Learning

  Glenlyon Norfolk School supports the development of lifelong learners. The IB Program requires teachers to make the learning of skills a priority by focusing on specific skills that students need to develop in order to “learn how to learn.” The aim of teaching these Approaches to Learning (ATL) skills is to produce self-regulated individuals who have been explicitly taught the skills of effective thinking and learning. These skills help our students become successful learners both independently and when working with others.
  
  There are five skill categories that are explicitly taught throughout the eight subject areas at GNS.
  
  

  ATL Skill Category

  MYP ATL Clusters

  Communication

  Communication

  Social

  Collaboration

  Self-Management

  Organization Affective Reflection

  Research

  Information Literacy Media Literacy

  Thinking

  Critical Thinking Creative Thinking Transfer

• Inquiry as Action

  Central to the philosophy of the MYP and the development of learner profile attributes is the principle that purposeful structured inquiry is a powerful vehicle for learning. It promotes meaning and understanding and challenges students to engage with significant ideas. In the MYP, students investigate significant issues by formulating their own questions, designing their own inquiries, assessing the various means available to support their inquiries, and proceeding with research, experimentation, observation and analysis that will help them to find their own responses to the issues. The starting point is students’ current understanding; the goal is the active construction of meaning by building connections between that understanding and new information and experience derived from the inquiry into new content.