General Information
Overland Trail Middle School has been granted candidacy as a three-year program from the International Baccalaureate-Middle Years Program (IB-MYP). We are in no way an official IB school, and any and all information below is simply found via Google and is freely accessed. During our candidacy phase, we will be working as a school community to meet the many requirements and standards that IB-MYP has established for schools. We have an assigned consultant from IB who will be supporting our building in the transition, and in the coming years, once we have met the requirements of IB-MYP, we will apply for authorization to hopefully at that time, be recognized as an IB World School. In the meantime, we want the community to know that we will be experiencing changes as a building due to this process. If you have further questions about this, or want to be involved in some capacity, please contact Mrs. Meredith, the school's instructional coach and IB coordinator at 303.655.4015.
Learn about being an IB-MYP school here.
Learn about being an IB-MYP school here.
Overland Trail Middle School Mission Statement
Overland Trail Middle School strives to develop lifelong learners who are responsible, open-minded, caring global citizens. We challenge students to develop 21st Century skills by means of high academic standards and opportunities.
Revised and approved by OTMS staff in May 2016.
Revised and approved by OTMS staff in May 2016.
IB Mission Statement
The International Baccalaureate® 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 organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.
These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.
Taken from here.
A video addressing the Learner Profile (the IB's mission statement in action) can be viewed here.
To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.
These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.
Taken from here.
A video addressing the Learner Profile (the IB's mission statement in action) can be viewed here.
What is an IB education?
The below information can freely be found on the IB's website in their digital toolkit.
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What are we working on now?
All instructional leaders at Overland Trail Middle School are working in 2016-17 on collaboratively building MYP Unit Planners aligned with the expectations of IB. The standards that each course follows have NOT changed and are aligned with the expectations of 27J and Colorado Department of Education. IB-MYP is a conceptually-driven curriculum where concepts are selected from IB recommended lists to create Statements of Inquiry (or big understandings) for the students for each unit of study. The SoI includes a global context for students to think about how their learning can apply to real-life outside of the classroom. Teachers then select the standards that best fit within these Statements of Inquiry to determine the knowledge and skills that need to be taught. See video below...
In the Spring of 2017, OTMS staff will also be working on developing the four required policies of IB World Schools for authorization: Academic Honesty Policy, Language Policy, Special Education/Inclusion Policy, and Assessment Policy. If you are interested in being a part of this process, please contact the IB-MYP coordinator, Christy Meredith, at [email protected].