Happening This Week, June 5


MONDAY Period 7
Extended Tutor Group. See communication form Pak Edi.

PD and COLLABORATIVE MEETING

Monday. Staff Briefing 15 minutes. Then Grading and Marking
Weds. Grading and Marking

This Week’s Message

Welcome back. We are starting to see light at the end of the tunnel, with just over two weeks left until a well-deserved break.

We still have a number of important things to focus on over the next two weeks and there are still a number of events that will disrupt regular class timetables. This week’s message contains information about:

After school PD for the rest of the year
 iREADY testing happening this week
Timeline for reports
Determining grades for the MYP Report
Entering Grades for Personal Project
Year 10 transition to DP
Year 6 Transition to MYP
Also, have a look at the recommended blog on the bottom about differentiation. Is differentiation what you think it is?




iREADY This Week
Mon June 5 – NO iREADY TESTING

Tues June 6 - Y8 Read Period 1-2

Weds June 7 - Y9 Math Period 1-2, Y10 Math Period 3-4

Thurs June 8 - Y10 Read Period 1-2, Y9 Read, Period 3-4

Mon June 11 - Y7 Read Period 1-2,

Tues June 12 - Y8 Math Period 1-2, Y7 Math Period 3-4



Timeline for Report writing
If you have semester 2 reports from last year that are approved, you can use or update those generic class comments for approval.
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.

13 June
Finalized grades for Y11 entered to ManageBac.
All comments are entered to ManageBac.

12 - 16 June 
HoY and Tutors check the report draft and inform teachers who need to modify their ManageBac data input.

19 - 20 June
Reports are published and broadcasted to parents



End of Semester MYP Grade, report writing, and exams

During the week of May 8- May 12 we had ‘mini workshops’ on determining MYP final grades. Below is the important information. See the GJS MYP-DP Guide Pgs. 19-23 for more details, or click the ‘T4’ information tab above.

How to determine the final result of a criteria.

Questions to ask.
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 year?
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?
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.

Personal Project Reports
All Personal Project supervisors need to enter the four criteria grades and a generic comment into managebac for their Personal Project Student.































DP

Year 10 Transition to DP

We are going to have the 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

Recommended this week, a good blog on Differentiation from the ASCD, Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development. It is adapted from How to Differentiate Instruction in Academically Diverse Classrooms, 3rd Edition, by Carol Ann Tomlinson

Five fallacies of Differentiation
1.      It is not ‘individualized instruction’
2.      It is not chaotic
3.      It is not ability grouping
4.      It is not making work ‘harder’ or ‘easier’ for some students.
5.      It is not just for some students, it is for all students.


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