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Areas of Interaction
Within the next two years I would like to develop the two areas of Community Service
and ATL (ATL will be our focus this year), in such a way that there is vertical planning
and development, where, as students mature as learners and people, they deal with harder
and maybe more complex ideas. For example, a Community Service programme could be
set out as shown below:
Option A: Grade 7: School community
Grade 8: Texas community
Grade 9: American community
Grade 10: Global community
With this option, the experience goes from one that is very local, to one that is on a global
level. In Grade 7, students may be responsible for working with the Student Council for
fund raising activities that may benefit the school community. They may be dining hall
monitors. Students could also be on car pool duty.
Option B: Grade 7: UNICEF
Grade 8: WWW
Grade 9: Environment
Grade 10: Amnesty International
With Option B, students will look at their specific area and they could do a number of
things, including the raising of money for their respective organization. They could also
take the role of informing their community of what their project involves. This would be
a wonderful link to Technology, where they could inform through the WWW.
At the same time, we have many students who are engaged in various activities,
including:
- raising money for local charities,
- helping with school clubs for younger children
- working with their local churches
- assisting with projects within the school
For each of the AoI there will be a leader. For the 2005-6 school year, they are as
follows:
Homo Faber: Linda Smith
Health & Social Education: Meireda Rubayo
Environment: Courtney Billings
ATL: David Jenkins
Community Service: Respective 7t" & 8t' Grade form tutors. Our long-term goal is to
have this area overseen and led by Westlake parents.
Each leader will be responsible for the overseeing of their respective area into all
subjects. In our first year, we did this with Environment, which proved quite successful.
The area leader will be responsible for meeting with staff and discussing how the areas
are being taught, and how they can be developed further.
Personal Project
We have introduced the Personal Projects in Grade 8. Students will be expected to
complete the Project using the guidelines set out in the Personal Project guide. They will
also be assessed using the criteria. Although they will not have sufficient knowledge and
understanding of the AoI by 8`h, or even 9th Grade, what they will get is practice on
completing the Project. At the same time, teachers will also become a lot more familiar
with the Project. When students complete the project in Grade 10, every teacher in the
MYP will be expected to play a role as a supervisor. With 32 students expected to be in
Grade 10, no single teacher should be supervising more than 4 projects.