The John Dickinson School is an authorized IB World School for the Middle Years Programme. IB World Schools share a common philosophy—a commitment to high quality, challenging, international education that we believe is important for our students. Only schools authorized by the IB Organization can offer any of its four academic programmes: the Primary Years Programme (PYP), the Middle Years Programme (MYP), the Diploma Programme, or the Career-related Programme (CP). 

The MYP is a challenging framework that encourages students to make practical connections between their studies and the real world.  The MYP aims to develop active learners and internationally-minded young people who can empathize with others and pursue lives of purpose and meaning.

The programme empowers students to inquire into a wide range of issues and ideas of significance locally, nationally and globally. The result is young people who are creative, critical and reflective thinkers. 

Research shows that students participating in the MYP:

• build confidence in managing their own learning
• learn by doing, connecting the classroom to the larger world
• outperform non-IB students in critical academic skills [PDF, 647KB]
• consistently have greater success in IB Diploma Programme examinations
• thrive in positive school cultures where they are engaged and motivated to excel [PDF, 3.2MB]
• develop an understanding of global challenges and a commitment to act as responsible citizens.

The International Baccalaureate® (IB) Middle Years Programme (MYP) comprises eight subject groups:

• Language acquisition.
• Language and literature.
• Individuals and societies.
• Sciences.
• Mathematics.
• Arts.
• Physical and health education.
• Design.
  

The MYP requires at least 50 hours of teaching time for each subject group in each year of the programme.

Each year, students in the MYP also engage in at least one collaboratively planned interdisciplinary unit that involves at least two subject groups.

MYP students also complete a long-term project, where they decide what they want to learn about, identify what they already know, discovering what they will need to know to complete the project, and create a proposal or criteria for completing it.

(www.ibo.org, 2019)

Fill out the Google form to SCHEDULE A TOUR!