Happening This Week May 22

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MONDAY Period 7

Ext Tutor Group: Exam Prep, Take a Stand

PD and COLLABORATIVE MEETING

Monday. Exam Prep and Standardization for yr 7-10 teachers (Y 11 exams start today-grading and marking)

Weds. Graduation for Y 12. Early release for students at 12:10. Y 9,10,11 students attend graduation. Y 7 -8 are released to go home. All Teachers attend Graduation.

Thurs and Friday no school

This week’s message 

Welcome back, and congratulations to the DP students and teachers on the completion of the exams. Also congratulations to the Y 10 students who took part in the MYP celebration last Friday. 

This week is another short week, with a half day for graduation on Weds, and Thursday and Friday off. It is still a busy week. Year 11 start their exams, and we are praparing for the 7-9 exams next week.

Please see below for reminders about surveys, feedback from walkthroughs, information on exams and reports.  

Surveys

Coordinators survey. See communications from Ibu Tamara. Please complete by Weds

PD Survey. See communication from Pak Nicolas

Teacher Humor

Keeping in theme with our ‘Digital Horizons” pd, and notice this is from 1996.
Fig.1 Randy Glassbergen. Glassbergen.com


Walk Throughs

Earlier this month we did walk throughs, visiting Science and English classes. We saw consistent use of Learning Objectives, we also saw command terms or thematic or difficult words posted and displayed on the walls. Use of Command Terms and 'Word Walls' are a good starting point for discussions at the start of the year. For More detailed information, please see the "Walk Throughs" Tab above. 

 End of Semester MYP Grades, Report Writing, and Exams

During the week of May 8-12, weh had 'mini-workshops' on determining the MYP final grades. See the GJS MYP-DP Guide pgs.19-23 for more details, or click the 'T4' information tab above.


If you have semester 2 reports were approved last year, you can use or update those for approval this year.

 Report Timeline:

15 May - 5 June
Teachers send the comments to principals to get approval.

9 June
All finalized grades for Y7-Y10 entered to ManageBac.
Y7-Y10 Grades will be immediately processed and sent to Principals, DP office, MYP office, Phoenix program coordinator and SSS.


DP
IB Final Exam Completed

As the IB DP Final Exam was completed last Friday, we would like to thank everyone for your support and help during the examination in the last three weeks. Please fill in the G2 form after you see the examination papers. If you have not got one, kindly take it from IB office. We appreciate your input for improvement in the future.





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 creating a lesson plan and prepare teaching 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. So Year 10 will not have their normal classes on 14-15 June. 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 sessions. All of these classes will be conducted and led by our alumni so teacher does not have to be there.



MYP

 Year 6 to Y7 transition day will be Thursday June 8 and Friday June 9. Y 7 will not have regular classes that day. It will culminate in the 'Taking a Stand' assembly Friday afternoon June 9. See the SSS for more communication.

Personal Project Corner

Personal Project Year 9 Timeline
Friday May 12 Ext tutor group the Report Template will be handed out
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
Also, see the Personal Project Blog for students on the tab above “Personal Project”.

IDU Corner. 

Interdisciplinary Unit steering committee will meet in smaller Year Level 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

From the IBO Blog. Is homework and unnecessary burden?

http://blogs.ibo.org/blog/2017/05/18/is-homework-an-unnecessary-burden/

“At the high school level [14-18 years old], the correlation [between homework and academic success] is weak and tends to disappear when more sophisticated statistical measures are applied. Meanwhile, no study has ever substantiated the belief that homework builds character or teaches good study habits.”

 Feel free to leave a comment with your thoughts about the HW blog, use the comment section below. We are interested in your ideas.

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