Happening this week April 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.

School Wide Learner Outcomes and Global Competencies




Visit the Head of School messages for school-wide updates at Global Jaya School Head of School  https://gjs-hos.blogspot.co.id/

Curriculum Page

Self-Study and Visit Page

MONDAY Afternoon  

Period 7:
YLM for Year 7-11
Year 11: The YLM will include the EE Session with Ibu Celi
Year 10: The YLM will include the assembly preparation
Year 9: The YLM will include PP Session with Ibu Popy


Friday Afternoon ETG

PD and COLLABORATIVE MEETING

Mon:  All Secondary teachers staff meeting MPR3, 3:00 pm. Overview of what to expect on the IB WASC Visit. See communications from Principals and Coordinators

Weds: All Secondary teachers staff meeting MPR3, 3:00 pm. Overview of what to expect on the IB WASC Visit. See communications from Principals and Coordinators.

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


This week’s message

We have a lot happening over the next few weeks to prepare for the WASC IB Visit.  At the start of the self-study, we used the above picture of a shark made up of goldfish to illustrate our school; we are all members of smaller teams, that are members of bigger teams, that together make up a team of teams that is our school. 

An important reason for the visit is to have us thinking about how we work. To help people have a better overview of things happening please see the different sections of this blog. On the top you will see links to the Head of School Blog, the Curriculum Blog, and The school visit Blog.

You will also see tabs at the top of this page for information that is important for you to know and use, including:
  • IDU’s
  • BQC
  • Service and Action Curriculum links
  • ATL Progression and Planning Chart
  • Feedback from Classroom Walkthroughs

Below on this post you will find information on: 1. unit completion check lists,  2. BQC feedback, 3. Questions to think about as we prepare for the visit, 4. a list of school initiatives for the past few years, 5. upcoming events.

1.    Unit Completion Checklist


In the appendix of the MYP DP Teacher guide you will find the Unit Completion Checklist for both MYP and DP. Please take time to survey the checklists to look for answers to questions you have about our curriculum and units.

The checklists can be found in the appendix of the MYP DP Teacher Guide Click Here or see the MYP DP Resources tab above.


2.    Building Quality  Curriculum Feedback


Please use the checklists in conjunction with the feedback on units from BQC. In many cases the feedback is very detailed, explicit, and helpful including guidance on how to enter information into the MB Unit Planner interface.

The current BQC feedback for all units can be found here.Click Here fo BQC feedback 


3. Questions for the visit



·        How does the School Vision and Mission influence your teaching
·        How do you develop the LPs (School wide outcomes) in planning and teaching
·        How do you incorporate the ATLs (School wide competencies) 

MYP Questions based on 2013 matters to be adressed

How do you use collaboration to complete unit planners?
What interdisciplinary teaching is there? How are IDUs developed?
How is Service and Action incorporated into units?
How do you plan and reflect collaboratively?
How are scheduled meetings used for collaborative planning and reflection?
Can you explain the subject Group Overview of Units (The subject specific vertical planner)
How do units of work relate to the subject objectives?
Explain how units promote conceptual understanding.
How does the unit planner promote concept based teaching?
How does the team collaboratively standardize assessment?
How does the criteria relate to the assessments?

DP Questions: Last time DP had NO matters to be addressed!
Be ready to explain:

DP Self-study:
  1. Collaborative planning:
  1. departmental meeting (DM)- unit planning, setting of the different exams and internal assessments, standardization of different assessments, setting the time lines and calendar for Year 11 and 12, analysis of the different assessments and feedback to the students, etc
  2. Core meetings: for the implementation of the core elements of DP. Implementation of the TOK, compelision of EE, help by different subjects to CAS
   2. Academic honesty policy and its implementation: EE, IAs and other assessments
   3. Different assessments: reporting and reflection
   4. Implementation of the programme: use of My IB/PRC, subject reports, IAs feedback, curriculum review, examiner and other IBEN participations
   5. Progression policy of the school: from Year 10 to 11 and Year 11 to 12
   6. Course completion in Year 11 and Year 12 and teaching hours
   7. Teaching methodology and learning diversity ( barriers to the education)
   8. Teaching resources and use of the technology in the normal lessons
   9. Nature of the feedback for the different assessments and particularly for the IAs a timeline/late submission policy
   10. Reporting system

   11. Student counseling programme at school

4. History of School Initiatives




2014-15
ATL Action research. Teachers conducted action research into one ATL. In the end a team of volunteers from each subject group put together an ATL Progression chart and ATL tool box. The concept of ATL was undeveloped, also new for DP.

PD for teachers to share ATLs ‘Teacher teaching Teachers’

BQC Established. End of year teachers shared units during PD time in break out groups. ‘Teachers teaching teachers’
2015-2016
HODs decided on the ATL skill of ‘Note taking’- later morphed into ‘note making’. Departments tried out variations of Cornell notes for both in class student not taking and research note taking.

Semester 2, Research and academic honesty, School decided on MLA as the standard for citation. APA introduced in year 10 for Psyc and sci.  Use of Easy bib. Use of Turn it in.

Use of class objectives initiated. Classroom walkthroughs initiated to observe use of objectives. Data recorded on Googl Doc.

School continued with BQC- focus on completing units and Subject Group Overview and on Learning Progression.
2016-17
MLA continued. School got account with easybib, ibu Hellena visited all subject and grade level classes y7-10 to set up accounts.

Class Objectives continued.

Classroom Walkthroughs continued with Coordinators, expanding to ATT in general. Feedback and insights posted on Blog

Digital Horizons PD: Easy bib, Turn it in, On line encyclopedia
Start of “Mini workshops”- teachers teaching teachers how to grade
2017-18
School continues with BQC- focus from feedback on resources and reflection

PD with focus on Vision and Mission

Semester 2 focus on classrooms, hallways and Learning Environments

5.    Up Coming Events


  • Combined IB and WASC visit April 15-19
  • Friday April 20 Grade 10 MYP Celebration 10:00-11:50
  • Friday April 20 Sports assembly in the afternoon all secondary school
  • DP Exams April 27-May18
  • Reports Comments handed from HOD to Principals from April 30-May 10
  • Y 11 exams start May 14 to May 22
  • Y 8-10 exams start May 21
  • All grades (including exam grade), ATL Skills (based on Unit Plans), and generic comments in MB Weds May 30. 
  • Graduation May 30, 12:30 pm onward
Please check the Outlook email calendar for the exam and reporting dates and other important events




Have a great week!

Patrick and Ram

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