MYP 101: How to Teach MYP

MYP 101 is a free, six-chapter pathway that takes a new MYP teacher from partial familiarity with the Middle Years Programme to designing, teaching and assessing a complete MYP unit — 30 practical articles, in order.

Start with Article 1
Chapter 1

Understand MYP

Replace a vague or inherited impression of the MYP with an accurate, usable mental model of the framework — and what your job actually is inside it.

  1. 01What Is the MYP? A Teacher's Plain-Language Introduction
  2. 02The MYP Curriculum Framework: How the Parts Fit Together
  3. 03MYP vs Traditional Teaching: What Actually Changes
  4. 04The Role of the MYP Teacher: Your Job, Honestly Described
  5. 05Your First 30 Days as an MYP Teacher
Chapter 2

Think Like an MYP Teacher

Install the three cognitive lenses — conceptual thinking, contextual purpose, and skills development — that make every later planning decision possible.

  1. 06Concepts: Teaching Beyond Content
  2. 07Key Concepts and Related Concepts: How to Choose
  3. 08Global Contexts: Giving the Unit a Reason to Exist
  4. 09Approaches to Learning: Skills You Actually Teach
  5. 10Inquiry in MYP: A Stance, Not a Free-for-All
Chapter 3

Design the Learning

Convert concepts, context, and skills into a complete, coherent, defensible MYP unit plan using backward design.

  1. 11Start With the End: Backward Design in the MYP
  2. 12How to Develop a Statement of Inquiry That Actually Works
  3. 13How to Write Inquiry Questions Students Actually Investigate
  4. 14How to Design an MYP Summative Assessment
  5. 15How to Build a Complete MYP Unit Plan
Chapter 4

Teach Through Inquiry

Turn a written unit plan into daily teaching practice that preserves conceptual focus, structure, and rigour.

  1. 16How to Start an MYP Unit: The First Lesson
  2. 17How to Teach Conceptually (Without Losing the Content)
  3. 18How to Build Student Agency Without Losing Control
  4. 19How to Scaffold Inquiry — And When to Take the Scaffold Away
  5. 20How to Design an MYP Lesson
Chapter 5

Assess Learning

Build practical competence in criterion-related assessment so judgements are defensible and feedback changes learning.

  1. 21Understanding MYP Assessment Criteria, Strands and Command Terms
  2. 22Criterion-Related Assessment vs Traditional Grading
  3. 23How to Write a Task-Specific Assessment Rubric
  4. 24Formative Assessment That Feeds the Summative
  5. 25Feedback That Moves Learning Forward — and Reaching a Defensible Level
Chapter 6

Put It All Together

Move from guided practice to independent, self-evaluated application — and build your first complete unit alone.

  1. 26Anatomy of a Good MYP Unit
  2. 27From Subject Content to MYP Unit: A Conversion Method
  3. 28Ten Common MYP Planning Mistakes (and How to Fix Them)
  4. 29Build Your First Complete MYP Unit: A Guided Build
  5. 30MYP Teacher Self-Assessment: Where You Are and What's Next