The purpose of the supervisor is to support the student during the personal project. The supervisor’s responsibilities are to provide guidance to students in the process and completion of the project.
This includes:
- ensuring that the chosen MYP project topic satisfies appropriate legal and ethical standards with regard to health and safety, confidentiality, human rights, animal welfare and environmental issues.
- giving guidelines about the MYP project
- providing a timetable with deadlines
- providing the assessment criteria for the project
- giving advice on how to keep and curate evidence of the process
- emphasising the importance of personal analysis and reflection
- providing formative feedback
- ensuring requirements for academic integrity are met
- confirming the authenticity of the work submitted
- assessing the MYP project using the criteria in this handbook
- participating in the standardisation of the assessment process
- providing personal project teacher-assessed totals to the MYP coordinator to enter the International Baccalaureate Information System (IBIS).
Students should receive information and guidance that includes:
- guidelines about the MYP project
- a timetable with deadlines
- the assessment criteria for the project
- advice on how to keep and use a process journal
- the importance of personal analysis and reflection
- formative feedback
- requirements for academic honesty.
► Supervisors will support students throughout the personal project.
