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MYP Personal Project: Portfolio

Use this guide as a starting point for learning about the personal project.

Important points

The portfolio is an essential part of your entire personal project. If your process journal is thorough and well organized, it will make it easier for you to produce the report.

 

  • Document your thinking, ideas and the development of the project 

  • It is a working document, it does not need to be neat and well presented

  • Show your supervisor evidence of the process documented in the journal at every meeting or by providing digital access

  • It can be written, visual, audio or a combination of these and might include both paper and electronic formats.

  • Each entry in your process journal should be clearly dated for your future reference.

  • It contributes to assessment through the 10 extracts you include as appendices at the back of your report, but you must refer to these extracts/appendices in your report with explanations about what they demonstrate

  • The journal will be submitted for display purposes at the Personal Project Sharing. 

Suggestions

Possible things to include in your portfolio:

Helpful headings

you could use to provide a structure to your journal, ensuring you make best use of the journaling process

Work completed this week

this section should detail all aspects of work completed on the personal project in the week

Resources consulted

you can record bibliographical details in this section. You should also record details of any conversations that took place with sources relating to the project

Challenges or difficulties faced

you should detail obstacles and indicate how you did or intended to deal with them

Evaluation of progress

this is where you should refer to your initial goals and indicate whether or not you are achieving them. You may also identify any areas that need improvement at this stage

What to Include in Your Portfolio

 

  • Planning doc

  • Short & long-term goals

  • Supervisor meeting log (academic honesty tab & can be copied into process journal)

  • Notes on background reading

  • Interviews, conversations, emails

  • Photos (of Padlets we have done, of your sketches, first attempts)

  • What you have done so far

  • Source evaluation (for example, CRAAP test)

  • Reflect on how you are growing specific ATL skills through this process

Portfolio Components

Divide your journal into three sections: Planning, Applying Skills, and Reflecting.

Acknowledgement

Material contained in this LibGuide has been sourced from the OCC (Online Curriculum Centre IBO)MYP Projects Guide 2016 and Yokohama International School Personal Project guide.