Your child will thrive at
MacArthur Middle School!!!
• Tonight we will learn:
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What type of learning goes on at MacArthur?
What does a typical day look like?
How can I advocate for my child?
Where do students go after MacArthur?
IB MYP Mission Statement
The International Baccalaureate Organization aims to develop
inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to
create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural
understanding and respect.
To this end the IBO works with schools, governments and
international organizations to develop challenging programs of
international education and rigorous assessment.
These programs encourage students across the world to become
active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that
other people, with their differences, can also be right.
Look at Me, I’m MYP!
Area of interaction
focus
Significant concept
Health and Social Education
Environments
Approaches to Learning
Human Ingenuity
Community and Service
All students at MacArthur live by the
MYP learner profile traits.
MYP unit question
How do the learner profile
traits apply to me?
Middle Years Programme (MYP)
• Throughout the IB MYP, students develop
skills identified in the IB Learner Profile:
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Inquirer
Knowledgeable
Thinker
Communicator
Principled
Open-Minded
Caring
Risk-Taker
Balanced
Reflective
• The IB MYP challenges students to consider
their role in local and global communities
Students at an Honor Roll Party!
Which Learner Profile describes
the pictures you see here?
Select one picture and please talk with your
neighbor about what learner profile
describes your picture!
We are being “Thinkers”
• Knowledgeable
• Risk Taker
• Communicator
• Inquirer
• Open Minded
• Reflective
• Principled
• Thinker
• Balanced
• Caring
Details, Details…
Paperwork
• Parent Connect and Free and Reduced
Lunch forms
– Forms will be coming home in August/Sept,
FILL OUT and return to school!
• On the first day of school
– Students arrive to school, go to cafeteria and
will be escorted to their advisory where they
receive their schedules.
Middle School Schedule
•Schedule given first day of school
•Six 55 minute classes
•Math, LA, Science and Social Studies daily
•Encore courses rotate every day
• The 3-day rotation A, B, C (art, band…)
•Physical Education/Foreign Language is on
a 2-day rotation, days are called: Red/Blue
Where do students go after MacArthur?
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Meade High School is our Feeder HS
BMAH, Glen Burnie HS
STEM, North County HS
PVA, Annapolis and Broadneck HS
IB, Meade HS
Signature Programs: Homeland Security,
CAT-N
Counselors help with:
1. Attendance
2. Completion of class work
and homework
3. Study skills
4. Time Management
5. Family/Friendship Issues
6. College/career interest
7. Anger Management
Student Success is a team approach!
Parent
Student
+ School ( Teachers, Administrators, Counselors)
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Student Success
MYP ACTIVITY
Life and Death Individual Activity
1. Please take one yellow stapled packet from
the center of your table.
2. Read the packet to yourself and choose the
8 people that you would save and the three
that you would not.
3. Put an “X” next to the 3 people that you
would not save on the last sheet.
Life and Death Group Activity
1. With your table, decide who your group
will not save.
2. Put those three names (one on each sticky)
on a sticky note and put up on the chart
paper.
MacArthur Middle School
Welcome to the “ Middle Years”
Have a Great summer! We are excited to have you!
EVALUATION
Please fill out our evaluation so that
we can continue to improve!
Here they come!!!!