1. The IBCC Reflective Project
An Overview

2. What is the Reflective Project and why is it important?
The Reflective Project is an opportunity to demonstrate how you apply IB Learner Profile skills to a project of your own design.
You will:
Produce an extended piece of work requiring a minimum of 40 hours of work
Engage in personal inquiry, action and reflection on a specific ethical issue
Develop critical thinking skills
The Reflective Project combines your career-related studies and elements of IBCC core

3. During this project you will:
Fully investigate an ethical dilemma in your chosen career path and give supporting evidence for both sides of the issue before asserting your own voice making a clear choice for which solution is best.
Highlight the cultural relevance of your topic on an individual, community, country and global level.
Reflect on insights gained while researching the issue
Streamline your communication to make it clear and concise and consistent.

4. What is an Ethical Dilemma?
What is Ethics?
Ethics is based on a set of moral principles of a society or culture that helps to guide behaviors, actions and choices. The ethical dimension refers to the range of ethical aspects related to an identified topic.
What is an Ethical Dilemma?
An ethical dilemma is a choice between two or more conflicting moral perspectives where none of the choices provides a perfect solution.

5. How to select an issue
1. Find a real-life situation in the context of your IBCC career path
2. Formulate a non-ethical question that simply describes the issue.
3. Redraft your question so it asks for one solution to the problem or issue.
4. Add an ethical dilemma associated with the issue and open up questions so it leads to multiple answers.
5. Focus on the ethical dilemma and enlarge it so the questions goes beyond the original observation. Your question should have more than one right answer and require the use of an argument.

6. Research
Read articles from newspapers, magazines, books and websites to determine significance of issue to formulate a question.
Plan investigative production / writing.
Identify sources and references.
Set deadlines
Plan research that logically supports question.
Carry out research
Access journals, databases, secondary sources
Do field studies within your community if possible
Gather material in logical order
Allow for different perspectives
Collate sources and place in bibliography

7. Available Formats for your Final Presentation
Maximum Length
Essay/dialogue/short play
3,000 words
Short film
10 minutes in length accompanied by a 750- word written report
Radio play/interview
10 minutes in length accompanied by a 1,500 word written report
Web page
5 single images accompanied by words of written material
Microsoft Powerpoint presentation
10 single slides accompanied by a 1,500 word written report
Storyboard/photographic presentation
15 single images accompanied by a 1,500 word written report

8. Scoring Criteria Imagine your evaluator is a crime scene investigator
If evidence is not present at the crime scene a detective will be unable to connect the dots and solve the crime.
If evidence in your presentation is not fully supported and meeting the highest level of the rubric, the evaluator can not give you credit.
Make your argument clear
Connect the dots and lead the viewer through your case with logical support
Hit ALL points from A-J on the rubric
Points on rubric are from level 0 - 3
30 possible point
A = 26-30, B = 21-25, C = , D = , E = 0-9

9. Preparing for Evaluation
Look at the level 3 criteria for each point on the rubric
During the project, ask yourself if what you produced meets level 3 in each component
Ask yourself if it can possibly fall lower than level 3
why does it reach that level?
how can it be improved?
Consult your peers, review each others’ work and challenge each other to improve your work!

10. Know your Rubric from A - J
A: The Issue in Context
Clearly state / identify your issue
Place the issue in context
Ensure issue has ethical dilemma
B: Community Awareness
How is your community impacted by the issue?
Neighborhood, country ethnic community?
C: Ethical Dimension of Issue
Ability to explore issue using a balanced approach

11. F: Supporting Evidence
D: Cultural Awareness
Awareness of cultural influences on ethical dimension of the issue
E: Reasoning
Evaluate material and think logically
F: Supporting Evidence
Collect and use relevant information from a variety of sources
G: Student Voice
Express a personal view on the issue using a range of relevant evidence
H: Reflection
Reflect on insights gained through exploration of the issue

12. I: Communication J: Presentation
Effectiveness of the language used in project and ability to communicate important terms, concepts, ideas and their application
J: Presentation
Organization of the project in terms of coherence and structure.
Documentation also assessed

13. Getting Ready You will be assigned a teacher Mentor for your project.
He or she will be able to give you limited guidance
You must be able to set and meet deadlines
Your entire project will be self-generated, original and a proof of your mastery of the IBCC

14. Your Reflective Project Guide
Gives detailed project requirements
Explains the finer points of of determining an ethical dilemma
Explains structure, references, formatting
For example - short film / 750 word essay
Clarifies research criteria
Detailed assessment
Dimensions on picking a topic
Ethical Guidelines
Checklists
Self-evaluation