Happening this week, Aug 7-11

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.

MONDAY Period 7

Period 7 will be the lesson 1 class. See Monday's schedule below

PD and COLLABORATIVE MEETING

Monday after school. Teacher planning time.

Weds after school: 15-minute staff briefing. MPR3.

This Week’s Message

Welcome back to the first full week of school. Last week SSS was doing orientation with some 230 excited new students. We are all looking forward welcoming them to GJS; let's have a great year! On that note, please notice the school vision and mission has been added to the top of the blog to highlight the importance of student learning and our role of developing life long learners.

This week’s post includes information on the first day, book distribution and MB set up. There will be some extra voluntary support sessions on Monday and Weds for MB setup and Microsoft 365. See the DP section for DP updates, and the MYP section below for updates on BQC, IDUs, and Personal Project. And remember, there are a number of support resources for you in the tabs at the top of this page.

Don't forget to see the teacher challenge on the bottom of the post for prizes!

MONDAY

7.30 – Assembly in the theater

8.00 (approx)  – Move to Year level and tutor group meeting:

Year 7 – A14

Year 8 – B34-B35

Year 9 – Plaza B

Year 10 – Dance room

Year 11 – MPR 3

Year 12 – Theater

9.40  - 10.10: Break

10.10-11.10:  Lesson 3

11.10 -12.00: Lesson 4

12.00-13.00: Lesson 5 (or lunch time for MYP)

13.00-13.50: Lesson 6 (or lunch time for DP)

13.50-14.50: Lesson 1

Book Distribution

Monday 7

Period	Class	Teachers responsible
3	10A	Laili
4	8A	Laili
6	8C	Nova
7 (1)	10D	Agra

Tuesday 8

Period	Class	Teachers responsible
1	10B	Tina Sci
2	8B	Tina Sci
3	9A	Z
4	10E	Richard
6	8D	Krisna
7	9B	Aryo

Wednesday 9

Period	Class	Teachers responsible
1	7D	Pandu
2	9A	Celi
3	7A	Krisna
4	9C	Pandu
6	7C	Yoshi

Thursday 10

Period	Class	Teachers responsible
3	7B	Krisna
4	9D	Pandu
6	10C	Nandini

Managebac and Microsoft Support Sessions.

Any teachers, old or new, who would like some guided assistance for setting up ManageBac (profile, alerts, classes, linking units & tasks, etc) or needs help getting their Outlook or Office 365 set up can come to these sessions:

Monday after school, ManageBac setup support (A23 or A25)

Wednesday after the staff briefing. Outlook email/calendar setup support (A23 or A25)

Below is the naming protocol, see communication from Ibu Tamara for more. Click here for the MB Set Up PDF Tamara sent out.

IB WASC visit update
Last year a lot of work was put in by departments preparing the IB Self Study. Thank you all very much for that!

The bulk of the work that departments and teachers had to do is over, but the process is not finished. This semester Ibu Tamara will be organizing focus groups for the WASC portion. Coordinators will be collating work and asking for more information from departments as is needed. The final report needs to be done by December so it can be sent in by January for the April visit. 

The purpose of the visit and the self-study to help us improve in our quest to develop life long learners.

DP

DP Teachers: Complete and return the EUR form for your subject to IB Office on or before Monday 14 Agust 2017.
HOD: 

1. Share the latest DP Subject Guide and inform the IAs deadlines of 2017-2018 DP Year 12 Students Calendar with 'new teachers.'
2. IB Office will share 2017 - 2018 DP Year 11 Students Calendar this week. Please encouraged the department to fill the dates in consultation with all Year 11 Teachers.

MYP

Building Quality Curriculum (BQC)

BQC is a program run by the IB to help schools improve their curriculum. It involves a school sending in two units for each of the 8 subject groups, along with a self-assessment, and the IB sends back feedback.

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

Here is an excerpt from the overall feedback:

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.

In June many departments got the BQC units into the IB office (Thank you!). They will be sorted and collated, then the Departments will complete the checklist self-assessment. The units and self-assessment will be sent in during September.

IDU

The Interdisciplinary Unit steering committee currently includes Callie, Laili, Tofan, Pak Z,  and Dani. Thank you for volunteering your time and expertise. We are open to new volunteers as we start the year. If you are interested contact, Pak Patrick.

The IDU Steering Committee will meet this week in the IB office on Friday at 2:50

One item on the agenda is to come up with a better name than the IDUSC. We are open to suggestions.

This year's units 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 TBD

Y 10 Bonding Trip in September, PHE and Science

Personal Project

Tuesday after school this week, new students will have a session with Popy in MPR3

Monday, August 14, deadline for students to enter PP titles into google document so PP supervisors can be assigned to students

Aug 31, Criteria A with three sources evaluated, in text citation for each, and work cited section including each source.  Also including the cover sheet. Submitted to MB before 7:30 am

Students can see the Personal Project Blog for updates http://gjspersonalproject.blogspot.co.id/

Teacher Challenge: 

Review the vision and mission statement at the top. 

What is the most important word or phrase in it? Why?

Post your comment in the comment section below

Prizes for the earliest responses and for the most complete responses.

Have a great week,

Patrick and Ram.