Middle Years Program
The Middle Years Program is a program of international education designed to help students develop the knowledge, understanding, attitudes and skills necessary to participate actively and responsibly in a changing world.
The International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program (MYP) is designed for students aged 11 to 16.
This period, encompassing early puberty and mid-adolescence, is a particularly critical phase of personal and intellectual development and requires a programme that helps students participate actively and responsibly in a changing and increasingly interrelated world. Learning how to learn and how to evaluate information critically is as important as learning facts.
Curriculum
The curriculum contains eight subject groups together with a core made up of five areas of interaction.
This is illustrated by means of an octagon with the five areas of interaction at its centre.
Students study subjects from each of the eight subject groups through the five areas of interaction: approaches to learning, community and service, homo faber, environment, and health and social education.
For more information about the International Baccalaureate Programs, please visit the IBO website: www.ibo.org
Some information about the International Baccalaureate on these pages has been taken from IBO publications.
Page updated
11 January, 2010
