During Wellness on Wednesday, Block 5, all G9 students plus all new G10 and 11 students will listen to a few GCD stories presented by older students. Teachers and parents are also invited to witness our students’ journeys.
Please come along to learn more about our students’ experiences.
Inspire Citizens is now offering each of the three NIS-Mission aligned PD courses that make up their GCC Professional Certificate at multiple times throughout the year. These courses can be taken in any order and are self-paced. This hybrid credential program is getting rave reviews and is PLA-elidgble. Please see Kasson if interested. Please see the blurb below. The next round of courses starts December 2nd.
Our schools, classrooms, and learners are inextricably and powerfully connected as global citizens. It is more important now than ever to provide our students with the necessary resources and time to enable the facilitation of environmental, economic, social, technological, mindful, and meaningful, action-driven experiences. Through this 3-part program, participants will engage in brave dialogue as they discover skills and strategies to immediately apply a wide range of tools and resources designed to amplify local community partnerships, build a global network, and empower learners to work together to shape a healthier, happier, and restorative future for themselves, our society, and the planet.
This tip continues the focus on using AI to assist in your teaching practices. It covers some starting points for writing successful AI Prompts.
Remember, this tip and all other like it can be found here.
So your ideal prompt uses natural language with complete sentences, elaborates on the specifics of what you want, but is also as succinct as possible.
For example… “Create a multiple-choice quiz with 5 questions that assesses students’ understanding of photosynthesis at a 9th grade level. Include 4 possible answers per question and indicate which is the correct answer.”
You can specify if you want dot points, or a table, or how long you want the output to be. You can ask it to be concise, or detailed. You can ask it to provide the content in a particular tone, like simple, academic or personal, or to be tailored for a particular audience like fellow teachers, or students. If you’re after an image, you should not only specify the desired image content using multiple adjectives, but include a style, an artist, a rendering process, the level of quality and even the type, eg. Painting, photo, lino print etc.
For example… “Generate a formative assessment activity for a Year 10 Maths class on quadratic equations. Create two word problems that students will need to solve using their understanding of quadratics. Use terminology and language that is appropriate for ESL learners who have just completed 5-week unit on this topic. Create a rubric in table format for this same task which uses the MYP standards and criteria that students’ can use to self-assess against the activity.”
Don’t be afraid. Just write your prompt in natural language, being as specific but concise about your requirements as possible.
G10 students who need to finish production projects this week are reminded that the Design Centre is available during office hours (Monday 3pm-4:15pm). The design staff look forward to seeing you there.
One proud tradition of our school is that students choose the bells. This is typically done by Primary homerooms, Secondary Advisories, or other NIS student groups with songs in their collective hearts and/or positive messages to share.
Bell must be appropriate for all ages and under 10 seconds in length. They are usually songs that are downloaded, then edited in Quicktime or other music programs, then saved in one of the usual audio file types.
Any homeroom, Advisory, or student group that would like to submit a bell should upload their selections to the prestigious Official NIS Weekly Bell Selection Committee using this folder. Putting the homeroom/Advisory/group in the file name is also encouraged. Thanks!
Let’s Celebrate Lunar New Year (February 2nd) together!
Please sign up for performances either at below link or QR code.
https://forms.office.com/r/xzDDpfZ3ss
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Ms Angel Chen, Ms Sunny Wang or Ms Sunmi Lee.
ALL CAST please come to the Theatre for a run through after school on Monday/Thursday of this week ( 3-6)
This includes TECH CREW
EXTRA LUNCHTIME REHEARSALS –
Tuesday – Duchess/Cook/Frogman -11 30AM
Wednesday -Humpty and soldiers / Ensemble 12:30
Thursday – Flowers 12:30
Friday – Gardeners 12:30
THANK YOU CAST!
Tickets Now Available!
Get ready to tumble down the rabbit hole and join us for this year’s magical production of “Alice in Wonderland”!
Embark on an adventure like no other as Alice encounters curious creatures, eccentric characters, and whimsical wonders in a world beyond your wildest imagination!
Don’t miss your chance to secure tickets and witness this fantastical journey come to life on stage!
Hurry, grab your tickets before they vanish! Visit the school cashier to secure your spot in this enchanting tale!
I am still looking for about 4 more staff members to help with duties on production nights
If you can help from 6- 8 30 on either Wednesday 29th or Thursday 30th November -please email me
Also -please come along and support the cast of over 70 students in the show …. we meed an audience!!! You can get tickets from the cashier in the centre
Advisory teachers I would appreciate it if you could encourage students to buy tickets … THANK YOU
Advisors of G9 & G10,
Please remind students to check their Daily Bulletin and ManageBac Messages. Information about GOA was sent out to them through both, but please remind them of two things during Advisory:
Hey G9 & G10,
Then you must check out GOA (Global Online Academy)! Check out their Semester 2 Course Offerings, right now!
If you want to take advantage of this amazing opportunity, then see Mr. Friedle in Room D213 or email him at AndrewFriedle@Nanjing-School.com ASAP!
Finally, two things before you move on from this message!
The following students will be ‘bursting the bubble’ on Monday November 20, 10:30 am – 3:00 pm (Advisory – B5).
Sieun Ahn – 10A
Charlotte Brady – 9A
Jessica Heckelmann – 9C
Erin Reid – 9C
Seoyun Jung (Noela) – 8C
Hyewon Moon (Sophia) – 6C
Lungyu (Cindy) Tao – 6A
Anna Wilczak – 6C
Lisa Wang and Kelly Holmes
Teachers, Students, and Parents
If you haven’t seen us in the Centre Foyer each morning, the Pfrang Association and the Pfrang Student Service Group have been set up selling Giving Tree cards this week. We will continue until all 270 cards have been sold, decorated and returned. If you are wondering what the Giving Tree is, it’s a Pfrang initiative in which we sell a card to someone LIKE YOU for 100rmb. You write an inspirational or festive message on the card that is addressed to one of the students the Pfrang Association supports. Stickers/drawings/other decorations are encouraged. With the 100rmb, we will purchase a school bag and fill it with items that the supported student could use while living in the school dormitories. We will then connect your card to their bag and give them together so that the student can see and feel the support given by the Nanjing International School community.
When you buy a card, you will notice that someone will write the name of your Homeroom/Advisory teacher next to your name. This is because, as an incentive, we are offering the Primary Homeroom and the Secondary Advisory that buy the most cards a donated PIZZA PARTY. So please, stop by the Pfrang table while walking in to school and pick one, two, or more Giving Tree cards.
Dear NIS community member,
To improve our student safety protocols, we are implementing new guidlines around the swimming pool office.
Students (PK-G10) can only visit the office before and after school. All students are advised to stay on school campus during the day and should not use the glass gates unsupervised. The swimmig pool office is located outside of this boundary, so it is only available for a visit before or after school.
When students (PK-G10) have a swimming class, the pool and the pool office can only be entered using the changing rooms. Students can’t enter the pool through the aquatics office.
If a student needs to borrow any type of equipment, they first need to go through the changing room, take off their shoes and socks and come to the office next to the learner pool.
Parents and G11&G12 students can visit the office during working hours.
Thank you for your understanding and support.
Please find the attached list of 23 students from Grade 7 to Grade 9, they will be out of school at 11.30am on Wednesday November 22nd(day 7), November 23(Day 8) and November 24(Day 1) for SCISAC Football competition in Macao. SCISAC Football Name List