Happening This Week, March 13-17

Welcome back. As we approach the end of Term 3, we are finalizing T3 Report writing. Some additional information about students who entered late is available on the blog under the tab “Report Writing”.  We also have a special WASC visit, see below. This week: Happy Pi day, Happy Ides of March, happy St. Patrick's Day!


Fig 1. “St Patrick's Day Hat.” www.byscnet.com/uncategorized/st-patricks-day-dinner-friday-march-17th. Accessed 12 Mar. 2017.

WASC Visit 

Dear colleagues,

Our schedule for WASC visitor, Marilyn is confirmed.  A kind reminder to re-read message below and review links attached, thank you. If you need to be in a meeting below, be sure to have coverage arranged.

Fig. 2 Hornby, David. “WASC Vice President Visits GJS 13-14 March.” WASC Vice   President Visits GJS 3-14 March, 10 Mar. 2018.

MONDAY Period 7

House Meeting. See Principals communications for more information

PD and COLLABORATIVE MEETING

Mon: Staff Meeting. See Principals communication for more information

Weds: Unit Planning and Unit Development. See communications from Coordinators and HODs for more information

Fri Extended Tutor Group Time:

Y7-9 Communication activity.

Y 10 Students will receive a copy of the F3 form with the Personal Project grade and feedback.

MSC  and Report Writing

See guidance that has been sent out from the Principals for report writing (Dougharty). It can be found on the MYP-DP Blog under the tab “Report Writing”.

13 March Deadline for all grades and (generic) comments in ManageBac. (In MYP at least 1 criteria must be assessed and recorded for T3)
14 – 15 March HoY and Tutors check the report draft and inform teachers who need to modify their ManageBac data inputs.
16 March All report cards are done and finalized.
17 March Reports are published and broadcasted to parents
23-24 March MSCs

Diploma Update:

Year 12 PG and Total IA marks

Here are the next stages:

1. We are in the process of entering your PG and IA grades to the IBIS this week.
2. The IBIS will then select sample of candidates whose IAs will be submitted. I will inform you the candidate names once it is generated.
3. Beside the work, we will also upload the mark for each IA criteria, teacher's marking comment and forms (if applicable) for the selected candidates. If you have provided comment inside the student's work then you do not have to write additional comment, just state it
Feel free to contact Ibu Vica and Ibu Widy if you have question.

MYP Update

We will issue the grades for personal project to the Y 10 students on March 17.

Y10 final Service Action Journal is Due Friday March 17.

Y9 was introduced to Personal Project on Friday March 10. Friday March 17 their brainstorm is due on MB.

‘Walk Throughs’

This past week the coordinators have been conducting ‘walk throughs’. We would like to thank the teachers who’s classes we visited.

We will continue with more visits this week, then we will give collective  feedback to teachers and departments. We are looking at what is going on, what the student’s experiences are, and what ‘best practices’ are happening.  

Our feedback will not be teacher specific. Instead it will be collective feedback based on recognizeing the skillful work of teachers and reinforcing effective strategies (Powell 52-55). 

For more information on walkthroughs, you can see “Using observation to improve instruction” by William Powell. This can be found in the MYP DP Blog under the Resources Tab http://gjsmypib.blogspot.co.id/p/ib-resources.html

MYP-DP Teacher Guide

The use of daily Lesson Objectives displayed and shared with students each class is an instructional practice at Global Jaya.  Lesson objectives can be displayed on the board throughout a lesson, projected on a screen, or put on ManageBac.  See p 12 of the “MYP-DP Teacher Guide” for more information, or the attached “Summary of Lesson Objectives”. Both can be found on the “MYP-DP Resource” Tab of the MYP-DP Blog.

Please use these resources to keep yourself up to date with the evolving landscapes and horizons of 21 century approaches to teaching and learning. Knowing your resources and planning based on available information is a great way to demonstrate “Lifelong learning”.

Thank you very much,

Patrick and Vica

Works Cited

Dougharty, A. “Important Guidelines for Writing Your 'Work Covered' and Determining Grades for

All 4 Criteria.” Important Guidelines for Writing Your 'Work Covered' and Determining Grades

for All 4 Criteria, 22 Feb. 2018.

Powell, William. “Using Observation to Improve Instruction.” Educational Leadership, 1 Feb. 2005, pp.

52–55.