Year: 2023

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Any questions come see us in the IT Office!

GOA is offering two courses in the next few weeks that may be of interest. As a GOA member school these courses are free of charge!

AI and Homework This asyncronous online course is happening December 4-5. Blurb: AI provides a powerful online tool for both students and teachers. How might it drive deeper learning? What are the ways it fosters student agency? In this short experience, participants will learn strategies for rethinking their approach to homework by using AI to inform student-led studying, skills practice, and self-assessment. Designed to move you from understanding to action in just a few hours, this two-day, fully asynchronous course provides highly curated resources, examples, and action steps to empower your students to use AI tools in their study and homework routines. GOA coaches will facilitate online spaces where participants will discuss ideas and share work in progress. You’ll leave with a student-friendly, AI-supported framework.

Designing for Student Voice This is a one-hour syncronous online workshop happening Friday Dec 1st at 8:00am Nanjing time. Blurb: Designing for student voice is not a checklist; it’s a process we revisit over time to ensure that all of our students experience belonging and have pathways for engagement in our schools. As part of our cultivating belonging series, in this one-hour workshop, participants are introduced to a variety of actions they can take to begin actively designing to include and leverage student voice. With a focus on strategies supporting representation, affirmation, and participation, participants will explore a range of ideas they can put into practice right away that invite and empower all learners. From how we greet students, to protocols for discussion, to how we plan diverse content playlists, each participant will walk away with a small next step for making a big impact.

Please feel free to register directly or contact Kasson for assistance. Thanks!

Dear All,

Please find attached SLT meeting minutes of week 13 for your information.

SLT – Nov 15

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.

1. A successful prompt is halfway between a conversation and a google search request.

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 9^th grade level.  Include 4 possible answers per question and indicate which is the correct answer.”

2. Whether you are asking for the AI to generate written content or an image, give specifics about the outputs you want.

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.”

3. The best way to get started is to simply try out a prompt of your own and see what results you get.

Don’t be afraid.  Just write your prompt in natural language, being as specific but concise about your requirements as possible.

Spread holiday cheer by participating in the Secret Santa gift exchange.

Participants sign up by TODAY (Nov 20), draw names on TUESDAY (Nov 21), and exchange thoughtful, budget-friendly gifts reflecting each person’s interests Excel Wishlist (Dec 1-12). The big reveal is set for Dec. 13th.

Let’s finish off 2023 with elements of surprise and camaraderie, making it a memorable and joyous celebration for all involved.

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