Happening this Week, Sept 4

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

Year Level Meeting

(On line work shop teachers meet in Library)

Year 7: Jogja Camp preparation with HOY
Year 8-9 : YLM with HOY
Year 10: PP with Ibu Popy/Pak Patrick
Year 11: Study Skill with Pak Ram/Ibu Widy

Year 12: EE with Ibu Celi

PD and COLLABORATIVE MEETING

Monday 3:00 pm MPR3 and adjacent rooms. Finalize the IB Self Study. You can go directly to where your team was working last time on the 3rd floor of B building.

Weds.  Collaborative planning time. All DP teachers College Recommendation writing with SSS. See communication from Ibu Regina.

All other teachers, Department Time arranged through your HOD.

This week's Graphic

This Week’s Message

Welcome back from your extended weekend. For those celebrating ‘Idul Adha’, we hope it was a joyful celebration.

This week we aim to finish the teacher portion of the IB Self Study. The personal project is underway-Please see the PP Tab above for more information, or click here for the PP Teacher Guide. If you still have questions after reading that information, contact Ibu Popy. Also on the tabs above you can find information on the IDU's, Service and Action, and additional resources for MYP and DP. 

A tab for Semester Information has been added. It has the most updated information on deadlines for Term 1 and Semester 1 reports.

We are also looking forward to the Dunia Conference. IB Dunia network will be hosting teachers' conference (TC) on Saturday 4 November 2017 at Tzu Chi School. The theme of this conference is 'value education.' (Workshops are not limited to this topic only, and are of broad interest) If you want to run a workshop, then fill the form sent out by Pak Ram Click Here and return to Pak Ram on or before Sep 7, 2017. We encourage you to take part.

This is open for DP and MYP.

DP

The last day for Y11 Subject change is Thursday, Sept 7.

MYP

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

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.

IDU Corner. 

The IDU team has been meeting weekly since May putting together plans for this year. These plans are now in the hands of the departments and teachers. This year's IDUs being developed:

Y7 IDU Individuals and Society and PHE, Y 7 Trip
Y8 IDU Math and Science currently During T3
Y9 IDU Language and Lit and Individuals and Society during T 2 and 3

Y 10 Bonding Trip in September PHE and Science

Service and Action corner

There is one SA Curriculum link for each year of the program.

Currently, the units that are linked to SA are:

     Y7 Hum and PHE IDU Trip to Jogya

        Y8 Hum NHD Presentation and Y8 Sci Math IDU Trip in April

        Y9 Hum NHD Presentation

        Y10 Science 

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.

The Theme of the feedback included Resources and Reflection:

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.

Have a great week

Patrick and Ram