Happening This Week Oct 9

 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    

Assembly

Thursday and Friday

Mid Semester Conferences

PD and COLLABORATIVE MEETING

Mon: Department Time Outcomes:

• All Extended Essay Supervisors: Annotating the draft and providing feedback (Check-in session three)

Organize with HODs to prioritize the following outcomes based on teacher and Department needs:

• Term 1 Unit completion. All parts of term 1 MYP-DP units complete, including reflection before, during, after. Units will be checked after the break
• Gather 3 pieces of assessed, standardized work for MYP-DP and share with the HOD
• Prepare for MSC

Weds: Department time: Organize with HODs to prioritize based on teacher and Department needs:

• Term 1 Unit completion. All parts of term 1 MYP-DP units complete, including reflection before, during, after. Units will be checked after the break
• Gather 3 pieces of assessed, standardized work for MYP-DP and share with the HOD
• Prepare for MSC

This Week’s Message

Welcome back to the final week of Term 1. As we prepare for Mid Semester Conferences (MSC) the Y 11 students are visiting Universities in the UK, and Year 10 students have just returned from their year level bonding and IDU trip. 

A ‘Parent-Student Guide to MYP’ has just been released to the parent community using the school web page and various social media. Please see the document below. Also, new this week, there is a tab on the top of this page for the Global Jaya Curriculum web page. See the “New this week” Section below.

From Pak Steve, MSC Preparation

Greetings! Happy MSC Week! Seriously, I love parent conferences and always have. They are a great opportunity to reinforce the community aspect of education. Everybody has their own approach to parent meetings--some of you will come with data, others with anecdotes, and others with examples of work, while you overachievers will try to do all three and more in the ten minutes you are allotted per parent. Above all else, there are two pieces of advice I can give: 

1. Keep it positive. This doesn't mean every kid is predicated a 7. It means every student, even the most challenging (and those challenges should be directly and confidently addressed too), has strengths and can succeed.
2. Make it about the kid, not the class. The best conferences are specific, concise and have student progress in mind. 

For more tips, check the links below.

The “Teachhub” has some good points to look at about being prepared and keeping it positive

http://www.teachhub.com/how-handle-parent-teacher-conference

The Kids Health article below has a good section on “Teacher talk” -using jargon, try to avoid jargon.

http://kidshealth.org/en/parents/parent-conferences.html

NEW THIS WEEK

The GJS  ‘Parent-Student Guide to MYP’ has just been released to the parent community using the school web page and various social media. This is similar to the GJS MYP-DP Teacher Guide, providing parents with information such as:

• What is in the term report 
• How are assignments graded
• How is the semester grade determined
• How is late work graded
• Where and when can I find the grades for work my child submitted

At the top of this page, you will see a new tab for the GJS Curriculum Web Page.  

https://sites.google.com/site/gjscurriculum/home

Under Professional Development, there are two "to-do" surveys following PD:

·        PD Recording - this adds your PD record to the whole school database

·        PD Reflection - this will create a PD reflection report of your experience

ACTION: If you have done IB PD This Year, please fill in both the “Recording” so there is a record of it, and “Reflection” so we know how to take future action based on the PD.

MYP:

BQC

At the end of last year, HODs gathered two units for BQC. These are currently being shared with the IB. We can expect feedback in Dec.

IDU Corner. 

The IDU team has been meeting weekly since April putting together plans for this year. 

The Year 7 IDU is complete and is being graded.
The Y 10 Students just got back from their trip and will be completing the IDU common task.

Have a great week,

Patrick and Ram