Happening This Week, Aug 28

VISION

Global Jaya School facilitates the development of lifelong learners who:

• are creative problem solvers with a broad perspective of the world around them.
• are respectful, moral individuals who take pride in their national heritage.
• are equipped to participate in the international community as team members and leaders.

MISSION

Based on the vision, Global Jaya School will:

• provide experiences through which the knowledge and skills necessary to encourage problem solving are developed.
• cater for individual learning needs and a range of learning styles.
• develop students’ communication skills to actualise their academic potential in both English and Bahasa Indonesia or their mother tongue.
• deliver and enrich an internationally accredited curriculum within an Indonesian context.

Fig 1. “6 Benefits of Teamwork in the Workplace.” Sandler Training, www.sandler.com/blog/6-benefits-of-teamwork-in-the-workplace. Accessed 6 Apr. 2017.

MONDAY Period 7

House Meeting.

(MYP Online workshop session in library)

PD and COLLABORATIVE MEETING

Monday: MPR3. Update on the IB self-study (10 min). Then we will continue to finalize department's work. There is one more day like this planned coming up. By end of Sept, the Coordinators need to have completed their own final written report based on this.

Tuesday: After school, all teachers have the “Cognitive Coaching” workshop with Ochan Powell.

Tuesday HOD’s Coordinators and Principals have Cognitive coaching all day.

Weds: After school, all teachers have the “Cognitive Coaching” workshop with Ochan Powell.

Thursday: New teacher induction- topic- 1. DP at Global Jaya 2. Assessment and grading MYP and DP at Global Jaya

This Weeks Message

It is another short week this week, with no school Friday. Tues and Weds there will be special PD on Cognitive coaching from Ochan Powell (That is Ochan Powell of the ‘expertise does not have past tense’ fame) for more on Cognitive Coaching see http://www.thinkingcollaborative.com/seminars/cognitive-coaching-seminars/. 

As the goldfish picture at the top shows, if we understand each other we can work toward common goals. The workshop is all about understanding each other.

The year 10 students should be meeting with their advisors, and they have a submission of their part A draft due on Thursday. See the Personal Project Corner Below for more details. You can also see the Personal Project Tab at the top of this page. If you still have questions, contact Ibu Popy.

Last week we met in Year Level IDU teams for the first time. The list of IDU can be seen in the IDU corner below.

MYP

The MYP information below includes:

• Online workshop
• Building Quality Curriculum
• IDU Corner
• Personal Project Corner

Online workshop

New MYP teachers will be taking part in sessions to support them with their online workshop

Weds August 16 3:00 PD Time

Week Aug 21 Extended Tutor Group Time (Permission given by Pak Edi)

Monday  Aug 28 during house meeting (Permission given by Pak Andy) Period 7

Monday, Sept 4 During YLM (Permission given by Ibu Tina) Period 7

Monday, Sept 11-15, No special time arranged

Monday, Sept 18. Y12 assembly. Time available if needed for the deadline. This is the last day, and work will hopefully be done over the weekend so teachers can enjoy the Y 12 assembly; they set the standard for assemblies for the year.

Building Quality Curriculum (BQC)

Semester 2 last year we got the report back for the work we sent last October 2016. This has been shared with the Department Heads to help guide future planning. 

Over the next few weeks, departments will be asked to review units completed in June to send in during Sept

Here is an excerpt from the overall feedback from last October’s submission:

Most of the teachers at Global Jaya School have developed rich statements of inquiry that have the potential to support transferable understanding and direct purposeful learning. The statements of inquiry are communicated in student-friendly language that invites inquiry and engagement.

The units reviewed demonstrate that most teachers are familiar with the current subject guides and include prescribed concepts, contexts and some approaches to learning skills in their planning.

Please note, many of the units reviewed are already outdated because we made so much progress last year with units, therefore the theme of the feedback should be considered over the actual content.

Resources: One theme that appeared often was about the importance storing resources in the unit planner.

Reflection: Another theme is the importance of providing full and complete explanations of what is happening in the unit, including in the reflection sections.

IDU Corner. 

The MYP Interdisciplinary Units being planned this year are listed below.

Year	Subjects	When, what
Y7	PHE and Hum	Jogya Trip Term 1 Reflection tools
Y8	Math and Sci	T3 Statistics, graphing, modeling
Y9	Lang Lit and LA, Hum	T3 NHD, NHD Mon Feb 5 Research note making and documentation MLA, including an annotated bibliography and source analysis for PP prep.
Y10	PHE and SCI	T1, Year 10 Trip Team building and environment (This is the first time Y10 is doing this trip

Personal Project Corner

Students are being told they are responsible for meeting with you. If they have not contacted you by Thurs Aug 31, then email Ibu Popy.

Personal Project Meeting Checklist

(Journal entry in ManageBac – Process Journal)

2017 -2018

For Supervisor

1. MEETING 1 :  (Term 1, week 5,  August 28  - August 31  2017)

Prior to this meeting

1. Students should have introduced themselves to you and arranged a regular meeting time.
2. Students will have chosen their topic, filled in the proposal form.
3. Students will have created a working outline and a timeline.
4. Students begun to record and gather potential sources,  made one entry in their process journal in ManageBac and record the first meeting in the MYP Academic Honesty Form – See Report Template.

Supervisor’s responsibilities:

1. Students have the responsibility to make a process journal in ManageBac and share it with the supervisor.
2. Discuss their proposal and timeline or working outline, offer advice and encouragement. Set time and place for meetings.
3. Ensure the student has begun to write research questions that are focused on their chosen Global Context.
4. Discuss expectations for next meeting: students should create working outline or plan in their process journal, begin to record and gather potential sources, and record all ideas in their process journal (you may wish to have student note these expectations in the process journal).
5. Remind them regarding Part A submission into ManageBac on Thursday, August 31, 2017, in the drop box provided under MS 2017-2018 Service As Action and Personal Project (Year 10) -SA class.