Day: October 25, 2016

Dear All,

Just a friendly reminder that the ETC deadline is the end of today (Wednesday, October 26th, 2016).

Also, we are always looking for writers or teachers who would like to share about their learning or teaching by submitting an article for the EARCOS Tri-Annual Journal. The winter issue submissions are due at the end of November. Below is information about what you can submit and some guidelines. If you are interested, please let me know. You can send the submissions to me, and I can proof-read it before submitting to EARCOS.

Thanks!

Grace

Possible article submission topics:

Community Service Projects
Campus Development – New building plans, under construction, just completed.
Curriculum Initiatives – New and exciting adoption efforts, and creative teacher ideas.
Green and Sustainable – Related to campus development and/or curriculum.
Student Art – We will highlight ES art in Fall issue, MS art in Winter issue, and HS art in Spring issue.
Student Literary Work – Short stories, poetry, scholarly writing.
Service Learning
Action Research

Here are the requirements in submitting your article:

1. Submit in MS Word format or PDF format
2. 500 Words
3. Photo in JPEG format with caption
4. Photo resolution atleast 300dpi
4. Font style Gills Sans
5. Font size 9

Article Integrity

We want to make sure submitted articles are not in violation of copyright laws. We highly encourage original articles. When you send an articles to ourET Journal, we will make sure you get the proper credit by displaying your name, title, school, and email in the article.

DUE TO TRIP WEEK
The Learning Alchemists Environment next meeting will be

Thursday, October 27

in the Strategy Room at Lunch

We will read the attached article.

Please remember, you can drop in and leave any time. 🙂

Contact Tom Johnson for more details

Article for Oct 27

Scaffolding and Achievement in Problem-Based and Inquiry Learning-A Response to Kirschner Sweller and Clark 2006.pdf

Past Articles

• is-direct-instruction-an-answer-to-the-right-question
• why-minimal-guidance-during-instruction-does-not-work-an-analysis-of-the-failure-of-constructivist-discovery-problem-based-experimental-and-inquiry-based-teaching
• problem-based-learning-is-compatible-wtih-human-cognitive-architecture-commentary-on-kirschner-sweller-and-clark

The scanner has arrived in C146 (C-ELL room). Please check out the R.C. books using the scanner. There are 3 missing books (not checked out and not in the room). If you have them, please come by C146 and check them out under your name. Thank you!

1. The Morning Meeting Book
2. 80 Morning Meeting Ideas for G3-6
3. Teasing, tattling, defiance and more: positive approaches to 10 common classroom behaviors

The G9-12 inter house touch rugby is on tomorrow (Wednesday) at lunch time on the field, make sure you have your house shirt and cleats.

Dear all,

Pls refer to SLT meeting minutes of Oct 19.

slt-20161019

Lucy

Dear staff see you all there for the FCD meeting. This is an important reminder to all of us to remain vigilant and look after our students, regardless of the age we teach.