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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is not competitive. It is also not much of a program. Don’t worry. You are not missing much. [/quote]

Jefferson's MYP program is comparable to any in the DC area. The real program starts in high school.[/quote]

The main differences vs. other APS middle schools are -- world language all three years and a wider variety of languages offered, community service requirement including a project in 8th grade that they present to the school. Other than that, they get IB grades on stuff but those get translated to regular APS grades anyway. And (at least this was the case when my kids were there a few years ago), IBMYP was very big on "reflecting" on your performance. So they had to write these "reflections" after every test, paper, unit, etc. They hated those.[/quote]

Parent-teacher conferences are also "student-led." That means the students complete an evaluation form and self-evaluate and "lead" the conference by taking the parent through the form.

The 8th grade project is presented to classmates, not the whole school. Not even the whole grade, as I recall.

The grading rubrics are similar to other types of rubrics used in some other classrooms like when writing a paper or something; but kind of prepares you for standards based grading better because of all the rubric pieces.

My kids hated the reflections and conferences, too. The language piece is a nice advantage, though I always liked the idea of the language wheel other schools had. If I were the reigning monarch, I'd implement a language wheel by 4th or 5th grade and have student select a language in 6th.  Even though Jefferson begins world language in 6th grade, you only get high school credit for two years (7th and 8th) of your language. You still need the 3rd year in high school or a full two years of another language in high school.[/quote]

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