The Middle Years Programme (MYP) of the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) is a course of study designed to meet the educational requirements of students aged between 11 and 16 years.
The MYP has been devised to guide students in their search for a sense of belonging in the world around them. It also aims to help students to develop the knowledge, attitudes and skills they need to participate actively and responsibly in a changing and increasingly interrelated world. This means teaching them to become independent learners who can recognize relationships between school subjects and the world outside, and learn to combine relevant knowledge, experience and critical thinking to solve authentic problems.
Students are required to experience and explore each of the five areas of interaction in every year of the programme:
- Approaches to Learning
 , in which students take increasing responsibility for their learning
- Community and Service ,
 through which students become aware of their roles and their responsibilities as members of communities
- Human Ingenuity
 , Environment  , Health and Social Education  , broad areas of student inquiry where personal as well as societal and global issues are investigated and debated.
The areas of interaction give the MYP its distinctive core. These areas are common to all disciplines and are incorporated into the MYP so that students will become increasingly aware of the connections between subject content and the real world, rather than considering subjects as isolated areas unrelated to each other and to the world. The MYP presents knowledge as an integrated whole, emphasizing the acquisition of skills and self-awareness, and the development of personal values. As a result, students are expected to develop an awareness of broader and more complex global issues.
The IBO prescribes the aims and objectives of all subject groups and the personal project.
The objectives of each subject group are skills based and broad enough to allow a variety of teaching and learning approaches. The precise choice and organization of content is left to schools in order to preserve flexibility. In some subjects the content is not specified while in others a framework of concepts or topics is prescribed for all students to address over the five years. Such prescription is kept to a minimum and schools are asked to expand their scope of topics and depth of treatment according to their individual needs and preferences.
The objectives of the subject groups state the specific targets for learning in the subject. They define what the learner will be able to do, or do better, as a result of studying the subject. The objectives of humanities below relate directly to assessment criteria
- Knowledge
 : the facts that the student should be able to recall to ensure competence in the subject
- Concepts
 : understanding the powerful ideas that have relevance within and across the disciplines
- Skills
 : shown through tasks that allow the student to apply what has been learned to new situations
- Organization and Presentation
 : Students should be comfortable using a variety of formats to organize and present their work
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