Happening This Week May 15

 MONDAY Period 7:

Y 10 Assembly

PD and COLLABORATIVE MEETING

Monday. Continue writing reports. Exam prep  and standardization for Y11 teachers

Weds. Continue writing reports. Exam prep and standardization for Y11 teachers

Friday. Y 10 MYP Celebration ceremony. Y 10 will not be in class after lunch and prayer.

This Week’s Message

This week marks the one full week of classes that we have between the start of T4 and the Semester exams. Please be sure you are collaborating with your colleagues to navigate through the report writing and semester exam bottle neck that is approaching. If we support each other through this, we can reduce stress on ourselves and the students.

To help you plan, see the T4 tab at the top for information on exam dates and report writing timeline and Report writing guidelines. If you have approved generic comments from last year and you are teaching the same units, you can use them again! Remember to run comments through Grammarly.

This week the DP students will complete their exams, and the MYP Students Y 10 will hold their MYP Celebration on Friday afternoon

Teacher Humor

End of Semester MYP Grade

Determining the final level of achievement for a criteria- MYP

In order to determine the final level of achievement for a criteria at the end of a semester, the following questions should be asked:

a. What does the most recent evidence tell us about the student’s level of achievement?

b. What is the “Highest sustained achievement” in that criterion since the beginning of                        the semester?

c. In your best professional judgment, based on all available evidence, which grade level descriptor best fits the student achievement in this criterion at this time?

Below are examples of summative grades for a specific criteria, and how the final level of achievement for that criterion were determined.

Examples: Criteria C

3	4	3	Final Level: 3	Best sustained + most recent evidence. There is no progression of improvement. 4 was not sustained, three is the highest sustained level.
2	4	5	Final Level: 5	First mark is the start of a clear progression towards the current achievement of 5, the most recent evidence. Assuming learning continuums and formative assessment also demonstrated this progression, 5 would be appropriate. If not 4, because 5 has not yet been sustained, and the progression is not fully supported by other work.
5	5	3	Final Level: 5	Best sustained overrides most recent. Assuming the formative assessment and learning continuums demonstrated sustained achievement in this descriptor, the 3 could be considered “Anomalous”.  However, if the summative 3 is matched by formative assessments and learning continuums that show the 5 is not sustained and the 3 is not anomalous, a 4 could be considered.

See the GJS MYP-DP Guide Pgs. 19-23 for more details.

Report Writing

See the tab above, “T4” for more information on the Timeline and writing comments.

If you have semester 2 reports from last year that are approved, you can use or update those for approval.

DP

Our Year 12 students are starting their IB Final Exam on 28 April 2017, Exam Invigilators please see post over the last two weeks for important details. Scroll down to find last week’s post.

Year 10 Transition to DP
We are going to have Year 10 transition programme on June 12-15, 2017. The first two days (12-13 June) is the brainstorming for alumni and their preparation (including create planning and preparing materials) for the Year 10 class that they will teach. So in these two days Year 10 students are having their normal classes.

In the following days (14-15 June 2017), Year 10 students will have special schedule for them to be introduce to the DP subjects and their requirements. We use the current Year 12 schedule for this purpose with few additional sessions, such as CAS, EE, TOK and the university experience and relevancy to IB. All of these session will be conducted and led by our alumni so teacher does not have to be there. The schedule will be release next week to you.

MYP

Service and Action Corner

Service and Action 2016-17 Journals have been submitted for year 7-10

·        Any students who have not submitted by April 25, Tues, was told to attend a mandatory workshop Thursday April 27.

·        Last Chance Submission, Was Tues May 2

·        Students who do not make this submission will start the year on SA Contract.

For more information on SA at Global Jaya, see the GJS MYP-DP Teacher Guide P 38 for more on SA http://gjsmypib.blogspot.co.id/p/ib-resources.html

Personal Project Corner

Year 9 students have been introduced to using MB as well as the new Student's Personal Project Blog to keep them updated. See the "Personal Project" Tab above.

Personal Project Year 9 Timeline

Personal project brainstorm submitted on March 17

Personal Project Proposal was due Friday April 28

Friday May 12 Ext tutor group the Report Template will be handed out along with Blog

Friday June 9 Draft of report Part A will be due on Managebac.

For more information on Personal Project at Global Jaya School see P 39 of the GJS MYP-DP Teacher Guide http://gjsmypib.blogspot.co.id/p/ib-resources.html or the "Personal Project" tab above.

IDU Corner. 

Interdisciplinary Unit steering committee will meet in smaller Year Leve groups over the next few weeks to plan specific units for next year.
Next year's plans being developed:
Y7 IDU Individuals and Society and PHE, Y 7 Trip
Y8 IDU Math and Science currently During T4
Y9 IDU Language and Lit and Individuals and Society During T 3 and 4

Y 10 Bonding Trip in September

Recommended this week

In the spirit of our ‘Digital Horizons’ PD two weeks ago, this blog gives us another look at the SAMR model in tech integration into instruction.
SAMR- Does our use of technology :Substitute? Augment? Modify? Redefine?

https://edtech4beginners.com/2017/05/02/tech-is-the-stage-the-learners-are-the-stars/

Thank you

Patrick and Vica