Happening This Week May 8

MONDAY Period 7:

Extended Tutor Group Time

PD and COLLABORATIVE MEETING

Monday. Staff Briefing. 15 minutes. Begin writing comments

Weds. Continue writing reports.

This Week’s Message

We have a short week this week again, with the gift of time given to us on Thursday. Please remember to plan going forward as time this term will start running down, and we want to be sure we smoothly finish up our units and grading without unnecessary stress for ourselves, our colleagues or students. See the T4 tab above for information on end of term exam dates and report card writing timelines. Our PD this week is focused on report writing both Monday and Weds. Please see the GJS MPY-DP Teacher Guide for information on end of semester grades.

We will have four mini-workshops this week on establishing end of semester grades in MYP. Please see information below.

DP exams have begun, see below. We would like to thank all the teachers involved and all those who helped prepare the students.

Last week the coordinators conducted walk throughs with Learning Objectives and Approaches to Teaching in mind. We noticed good use of Command Terms and word walls, as well as evidence of this in the Unit Planners. See the "Best Practice" tab above for more information on walk through feedback.

Last week we also had our “Digital Horizons” PD. Please see the “Resources” tab above for more information about the sessions and the tools. Last week we also had some walk throughs with the coordinators. See the “Best Practice” tab above for information about the best practice we have observed and how we can apply and broaden this practice.

Remember this week we have the TSAN on Weds, and Y 9 students are taking the national exam on Monday.

Teacher Humor

Teacher to student: "You missed school yesterday, didn't you?"

Student to teacher: "No, not really."

Mini Workshops on end of Semester grades in MYP

The end of term is just around the corner, and we want to be sure everyone is prepared to navigate through this with as little stress and as few surprises as possible.

To this end, we will be holding 4 mini workshops on how to establish the MYP end of term 1-7 grade to be sure everyone is confident in their report writing.

Teachers who have to write MYP report cards must select which one they want to attend. All MYP teacher must attend one of them by the end of the week. 

We want to be sure all the MYP teachers have had the same professional conversations and everyone has had the chance to develop a shared understanding of grading.

Select one of the following workshop times to attend if you are writing MYP reports.

 Mon May 8, 3:15-3:45

 Tues May 9, After School 3:00-3:30 and Lunch 12:15:00-12:45

 Friday 1:00-1:20

DP

Our Year 12 students is starting their IB Final Exam on 28 April 2017, we would like to highlight the following points that we, as the exam invigilator should know:

• Each invigilator must give his or her whole attention to the supervision of the examination. It is not permitted for an invigilator to engage in an activity (for example, reading or marking candidates’ work) other than supervising the examination. Any conversation between invigilators must be brief, quiet and confined to discussing matters relating to the examination in progress.
• At least one invigilator must walk around the room at regular intervals, without disturbing the candidates, to ensure that no candidate is engaging in any form of academic misconduct. Invigilators must not remain in one place for a long period, but when moving about the examination room they must avoid distracting the candidates.
• It is suggested that one invigilator be seated at the back of the room so that candidates cannot determine which part of the room that invigilator is observing.
• During the examination the invigilator must keep an accurate record of any events, such as a temporary absence (for example, requires the bathroom or illness), and if a candidate is cautioned for misconduct (record the name of the candidate and the nature of the misdemeanour).
• Do not leave candidates unsupervised at any time. If an invigilator must leave the examination room, another invigilator must remain to supervise the candidates.
• Other than candidates for the examination, only the head of school, coordinator, invigilators and authorized IB inspectors are allowed into the examination room. No other person should be given access, except in an emergency or with authorization from the Assessment Division, IB Global Centre, Cardiff
• Candidates must not be allowed to leave the examination room during the first hour or during the last 15 minutes of an examination (subject to 15.6 below). Consequently, candidates must not be allowed to leave the examination room if the duration of the examination is one hour and 15 minutes or less.
• Candidates must leave the examination room in a quiet and orderly manner, taking only their personal belongings with them. Candidates must not take any examination paper, data booklets, answer booklets or graph paper out of the room.

The conduct of IB DP Examinations - May & November 2017If you wish to know more, please read the booklet that Ibu Widy has put in each staff room.
If you need us immediately during the exam time, you can use the phone in Ibu Tamara's office (across of MPH) to call our extension number: 202 (Vica) or 155 (Widy and Popy).

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, 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

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

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

IDU Corner. 

Interdisciplinary Unit steering committee will meet Friday from 2:50-3:30. This week we want to set up Year level meeting times for next week to start on the IDU planner.

Thank you Dani, Laili, Callie, Tofan and Z for helping provide leadership for this.

Next year's plans being developed:

Y7 IDU Individuals and Society and PHE, Y 7 Trip
Y8 IDU Math and Science During T4
Y9 IDU Language and Lit and Individuals and Society During T 3 and 4

Y 10 Bonding Trip

Recommended this week

Following in the spirit of our Digital Horizons PD, this a blog that looks at the SAMR model for understanding how technology is used in the classroom. This can help us reflect on how we use tools like Managebac, Easybib, Grammarly, Encyclopedia Britiannica, Turn it in and more.

http://www.schrockguide.net/samr.html

Web quest Scavenger Hunt:

For this week’s scavenger hunt prize there are 3 tins of Cookies. A popular form of 21^st century thinking is “Visible Thinking” . One thinking routine is ‘I see….’  ‘I think….’  ‘I wonder….’

Challenge: Survey the Happening this week blog, this post, all posts, the other pages, anything you like. Complete the See, Think, Wonder thinking routine and post it in the comment section for the May 8 post to win a tin of butter cookies.

For more on thinking Routines, see here

http://www.visiblethinkingpz.org/VisibleThinking_html_files/03_ThinkingRoutines/03c_Core_routines/SeeThinkWonder/SeeThinkWonder_Routine.html