Happening This Week: April 3
Dear Colleagues,
Welcome Back. We hope it was a refreshing vacation; because you're awesome and you deserve it!
Term 4 is ahead of us, and as always, the end of the year is a particularly busy time. Over the next few months we will be involved in finalising the IB Wasc Self-Study, units, learning progressions, and getting the end of semester exams and reports ready. We will do our best to provide you with the notifications and guidance needed to help you plan for this busy term.
Please see Pak Andy's email including T 4 meeting times and exams that he sent March 24 (Dougharty). The Report information Click Here and PD Schedule Click Here can be found under the MYP-DP Resources Tab above.
If upon viewing the information it looks like you may experience a collision of time;
Fig 1. Badley, Zoe. " 'Keep Calm and Carry On' Variations.” TrendHunter.com, TREND HUNTER Inc., 15 July 2010, www.trendhunter.com/trends/keep-calm-and-carry-on-variations. Accessed 24 Mar. 2017.
Term 4 is ahead of us, and as always, the end of the year is a particularly busy time. Over the next few months we will be involved in finalising the IB Wasc Self-Study, units, learning progressions, and getting the end of semester exams and reports ready. We will do our best to provide you with the notifications and guidance needed to help you plan for this busy term.
Please see Pak Andy's email including T 4 meeting times and exams that he sent March 24 (Dougharty). The Report information Click Here and PD Schedule Click Here can be found under the MYP-DP Resources Tab above.
If upon viewing the information it looks like you may experience a collision of time;
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- Invest a few minutes to de-stress, practice mindfulness, etc.
- Remember everyone is working with positive intentions
- Talk to your colleagues
- Talk to your HOD
- Finally, Keep Calm and send the 'Bat Signal' out to the appropriate Principal or Coordinator
Fig 1. Badley, Zoe. " 'Keep Calm and Carry On' Variations.” TrendHunter.com, TREND HUNTER Inc., 15 July 2010, www.trendhunter.com/trends/keep-calm-and-carry-on-variations. Accessed 24 Mar. 2017.
MONDAY Period 7
Early release for Students. There will be a special assembly from 11:10-11:50, then PD.See the
Agenda below for Monday afternoon’s meeting.
Lunch Buffet provided by school 12:00-1:00
Lunch Buffet provided by school 12:00-1:00
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Fig 2. Dougharty, Andy. “Schedule for Secondary PD on April 3rd.” Schedule for Secondary PD on April 3rd, 20 Mar. 2017.
Friday Extended Tutor Group Time
Friday extended Tutor group
students in year 7-10 will be working on communication activities as part of
the extended tutor group program. Thank you to all the Tutor Teachers
supporting the students with this.
PD and COLLABORATIVE MEETING
Monday. IB Self Study. Meet in MPH at 1:00. See the
Coordinators’ communication for more information. Mixed Group meets in the
Library.
Weds. IB Self Study
Meet in MPH at 3:00. See the Coordinators’ communication for more information.
Mixed Group meets in the library.
IB WASC Self Study Timeline
We will be working in the IB and
WASC Self-Study on the following days, with the following goals:
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Mon April 3. HOD led agenda to
guide the IB Evidence gathering self-study process to completion (Meeting in
MPH. Patrick, Vica, Tamara, 10 minute intro)
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Weds April 5. Continue with subject
group agenda to complete process (Meeting in MPR3)
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Weds April 12. Summary and
reflection of process. (Meeting in MPR3)
·
Weds April 19. Subject Groups
select two completed Units from year 7-10 MYP, and Two completed unit
DP Y 11-12 for a total of Four completed units to be used as evidence
in self-study. (Meeting in MPR3)
MYP and DP Update
MYP Service and
Action update. Year 10 students submitted their Service Action (SA)
journals on March 17. Year 7 students submitted their SA journal March 22. Year
8 will submit their journal April 10, and year 9 will submit their journal
April 17.
Personal Project
update. Year 9 submitted their personal project brainstorm on March 17.
This is their second official submission for Personal Project. They will have
two more this year.
We would like to thank all the DP teachers for the cooperation and support in the eSubmission of IAs and EAs. We have almost finish the submission at this point. There are only few Arts works left for uploading.
As we are approaching the IB Final exam (28 April - 19 May 2017), Ibu Vica will send the invigilator schedule this week. Kindly read thoroughly and inform her should you have any suggestion/question about it.
EASYBIB. All students in grade 7-9 have opened an easybib account with Ibu Hellena. She has been visiting classes to help students set them up. She will continue visiting classes in T4 to help student use easybib in specific subjects.
Classes being visited include: Individuals and Societies, Science, Language and Lit, Design.
If you would like her to visit your class, or if you would like to get an easy bib account yourself, plese contact her.
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The Easybib account allows students (and teachers) to:
- Set up a new folder for each project
- Save and store work
- Create correct work cited sections
- Create correct in text citations
- Create an annotated bibliography with notes of sources
- Analyze sources
- View Tutorials and Guides on using citation
Please see Fig 3. for an example of Easybib analytics.
Fig 3. “EasyBib.” EasyBib, Chegg, 24 Mar. 2017, www.easybib.com/ Accessed 24 Mar. 2017.
Thank you Ibu Hellena for your support.
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This guide also includes information about assessment:
- Assessment
- How to determine Semester Grades
- Academic Honesty, and more...
Fig 4. “GJS MYP-DP Teacher Guide.” GJS MYP-DP Blog, Global Jaya IB Office, 20 Jan. 2017, drive.google.com/file/d/0B41f9T_FZso4VGc0ajhzZHQ4NTA/view. Accessed 18 Mar. 2017.
Have a Great Week!
Patrick and Vica
Work Cited
Dougharty, A. “Reporting Guidelines June 2017” 24 Mar. 2017. Email.
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