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Will the MYP ever be administered like the Diploma Programme, with written curriculum and external assessment?

The MYP is quite different from the Diploma Programme in a number of ways; it caters to an age group where the curriculum is controlled in varying degrees by national systems; it is offered to a great variety of schools as a framework within which schools can adapt their curriculum; and it is taught in many languages. However, and very importantly, the MYP curriculum framework requires teachers to revisit their own curriculum and practices, and to work as teams of educators to develop their own progression of learning, enriched with the fundamental principles of the programme. Therefore, the MYP has a written curriculum, but one that must be written by the teachers themselves in accordance with the basic principals of the programme. The MYP assessment model is closely in line with the objectives of each subject group. Here again, teachers are required to work as teams to adapt their practices to some basic principles, keeping the student at the centre of focus.