In the International Baccalaureate® (IB) Middle Years Programme (MYP), students develop through creating, performing, and presenting arts in ways that engage and convey feelings, experiences, and ideas.
It is through this practice that students acquire new skills and master those skills developed in prior learning.
Students have opportunities to function as artists, as well as learners of the arts.

What is the significance of arts in the MYP?
Arts stimulate young imaginations, challenge perceptions, and develop creative and analytical skills.
Involvement in the arts encourages students to understand the arts in context and the cultural histories of artworks, supporting the development of an inquiring and empathetic world view.
Arts challenge and enrich personal identity and build awareness of the aesthetic in a real-world context.

As part of the Middle Years Programme (MYP), design challenges all students to:

• apply practical and creative thinking skills to solve design problems
• explore the role of design in both historical and contemporary contexts
• consider their responsibilities when making design decisions and taking action.
• MYP design focuses on a holistic design process rather than final products and solutions.

What is the significance of Design in the MYP?
MYP uses the design cycle as a way to structure:

• inquiry and analysis of design problems
• development and creation of feasible solutions
• testing and evaluation of students’ models, prototypes, products, or systems.

NFTE (Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship)
The NFTE mission is to activate the entrepreneurial mindset and build startup skills in youth from under-resourced communities, to ensure their success and create a more vibrant society.

NFTE activates the entrepreneurial mindset and builds startup skills in youth from under-resourced communities to ensure their success and to create a more vibrant society.

Individuals and societies incorporate disciplines traditionally studied in the humanities, as well as disciplines in the social sciences. 

In this subject group, students collect, describe, and analyze data used in studies of societies, test hypotheses, and learn how to interpret complex information, including original source material.

This focus on real-world examples, research, and analysis is an essential aspect of the subject group.

What is the significance of individuals and societies in the MYP?
The subject encourages learners to respect and understand the world around them and equips them with the necessary skills to inquire into historical, contemporary, geographical, political, social, economic, religious, technological, and cultural factors that have an impact on individuals, societies, and environments.

It encourages learners, both students, and teachers, to consider local and global contexts.

The study of additional languages in the Middle Years Programme (MYP) provides students with the opportunity to develop insights into the features, processes, and craft of language and the concept of culture, and to realize that there are diverse ways of living, viewing and behaving in the world.
MYP language acquisition is a compulsory component of the MYP in every year of the programme. Schools must provide sustained language learning in at least two languages for each year of the MYP.
Language and identity . . . Learning to communicate in a variety of ways is fundamental to students’ identity affirmation.

What is the significance of language acquisition in the MYP?
The ability to communicate in a variety of modes, in more than one language, is essential to the concept of an international education. The language acquisition course provides a linguistic and academic challenge for students in order to facilitate the best possible educational experience. Students are given the opportunity to develop their language skills to their full potential, as well as the possibility of progressing through various phases over the course of the MYP.

Middle Years Programme (MYP) language and literature courses develop skills in six areas:

• Listening
• Speaking
• Reading
• Writing
• Viewing
• Presenting

Inquiry is at the heart of MYP language learning and aims to support students’ understanding by providing them with opportunities to independently and collaboratively investigate, take action, and reflect on their learning. 
 

What is the significance of language and literature in the MYP?
All IB programmes value language as central to the development of critical thinking, which is essential for cultivating intercultural understanding and responsible membership in local, national, and global communities.
Language is integral to exploring and sustaining personal development and cultural identity and provides an intellectual framework that supports the construction of conceptual understanding.
As MYP students interact with a range of texts, they generate insight into moral, social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental domains. They continually grow in their abilities to form opinions, make decisions, and reason ethically—all key attributes of an IB learner. 

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The Deerfield Beach Literacy Team’s objective is to challenge students to become the best they can be. We strive to individualize instruction, through differentiated instruction, in order to maximize our students’ learning potential. We nurture our students’ academic growth with academic rigor and research-based teaching and learning strategies.

Deerfield Beach Middle School’s Literacy Team strives to:

• Provide a safe and comfortable learning environment for success as well as failure, while promoting physical and mental well-being.
• Develop life-long learners.
• Offer opportunities to develop moral and ethical citizens and leaders.
• Encourage students to be responsible for their own actions.
• Engender creative self-expression.
• Encourage independent and critical thinking.
• Teach respect and understanding of individual differences.
• Encourage clear and articulate communication in spoken and written form.
• Have students understand the interdisciplinary nature of knowledge.
• Promote proficiency in technology as a tool for learning.

In the International Baccalaureate® (IB) Middle Years Programme (MYP), mathematics promotes both inquiry and application, helping students to develop problem-solving techniques that transcend the discipline and that are useful in the world beyond school.
The MYP mathematics framework encompasses number, algebra, geometry and trigonometry, statistics, and probability.

Students in the MYP learn how to represent information, to explore and model situations, and to find solutions to familiar and unfamiliar problems. These are skills that are useful in a wide range of areas, including social sciences and the arts.

What is the significance of mathematics in the MYP?
MYP mathematics aims to equip all students with the knowledge, understanding, and intellectual capabilities to address further courses in mathematics, as well as to prepare those students who will use mathematics in their studies, workplaces, and everyday life.
Mathematics provides an important foundation for the study of sciences, engineering, and technology, as well as a variety of applications in other fields.

In the International Baccalaureate® (IB) Middle Years Programme (MYP), physical and health education empowers students to understand and appreciate the value of being physically active and to develop the motivation for making healthy life choices.

Physical and health education focuses on both learning about and learning through physical activity. Both dimensions help students to develop approaches to learning (ATL) skills across the curriculum.MYP physical and health education courses must engage students in physical education activities for at least half of the total teaching time allocated to the subject group.

What is the significance of MYP physical and health education?
Physical and health education courses foster the development of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that will contribute to a student’s balanced and healthy lifestyle. Through opportunities for active learning, courses in this subject group embody and promote the holistic nature of well-being. Through physical and health education, students can learn to appreciate and respect the ideas of others, and develop effective collaboration and communication skills. This subject area also offers many opportunities to build positive interpersonal relationships that can help students to develop a sense of social responsibility.

The Middle Years Programme (MYP) sciences framework encourages students to investigate issues through research, observation, and experimentation, working independently, and collaboratively.

As they investigate real examples of science application, students will discover the tensions and dependencies between science and morality, ethics, culture, economics, politics, and the environment.

What is the significance of sciences in the MYP?
Scientific inquiry fosters critical and creative thinking about research and design, as well as the identification of assumptions and alternative explanations.

Through MYP sciences, students will learn to appreciate and respect the ideas of others, gain good ethical-reasoning skills, and further develop their sense of responsibility as members of local and global communities.