Dear Secondary Teachers,
For your reference, here is the Draft May 2024 exam schedule overview which includes lengths of blocks on those days. This will be shared with students and parents on Monday. Let us know if there are any errors by 4 pm on Friday.
A detailed schedule with locations and names of invigilators is still being finalized and will be shared later next week.
Sincerely,
Jade and Angela
The following students will be out of class during Advisory and some of Block 1 Friday 10th May:
G6: JoyC, Olivia Z, Yang
G8: Guangmo, Sky, Suyang, Yin
G9: Oliver H
G10: Jiayi
If you submit the E-form online, please print the E-form and submit it to the accounts office or purchasing office, after you received the printing reminder email.
Any enquires about it, please let me know or drop by my office G203.
The EARCOS Spring edition of the Tri-Annual Journal is here!
Featured in this Issue:
Page 10
TEACHER RESEARCH
EFFECTIVE TEACHERS IN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS: WHAT WE KNOW AND WHAT WE NEED TOKNOW
By Leslie W. Grant, James H. Strong , Swathi Menon, & Altaf Khosa
So Why Are Teachers (and Teacher Research) So Important for International Schools? We’ve known for as long as there have been schools that the quality of education – and especially student learning – is largely a conse- quence of the quality of the teachers who serve in a school. The formula for success in our profession is quite simple: Great teachers (and great leaders) = great schools!
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LITERACY
EMPOWERING EDUCATORS, ELEVATING STUDENTS: INTRODUCING THE INTERNATIONAL LITERACY COACH COHORT TO EARCOS SCHOOLS
By Shannon Hobbs-Beckley & Dr. Monica Medina
Are instructional coaches and teacher leaders a part of your school’s instructional support system? Perhaps you’re looking to ensure that your school’s professional learning resources are impacting student learning and wondering, “what’s the best way to do this”? And… what does the research indicate about the impact coaching has on teachers’ ability to transfer their learning to classroom instruction?
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
EXPLORING CLASSICAL AND KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS THROUGH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
By Meesha Arora
One of the goals was to explore which tool might be more accurate with regards to an insight into the contrast- ing theories of the schools.
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CURRICULUM
COMBATTING MATH ANXIETY IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
By Haley Osbourne, MEd & Leah Holliday
What is Math Anxiety?
Stories like this are not uncommon. Every teacher has likely seen a student put their heads in their hands and exclaim “I’m just not a math person!”
Teachers, here is the Teams link for our virtual author visit with Katey Howes on Thursday. She will begin at 8:05 and end around 8:20. Please display on your white board like you normally do for class. The link should work for all teachers within NIS.
If you have any technical issues, please write in the Primary Tech Support wechat or the Secondary Tech wechat. IT will be monitoring those wechats so help can come ASAP if needed.
Teachers who have sent in student questions, I will email you with more info, but when it’s time for your class to ask questions students will be able to come up to your computer to ask Katey.
Dear all,
Julia Zhang will be the MOD on May 11, 2024.
Best wishes,
Clara
If you are a Secondary student in need of MAP testing wrap-up/make-up, you have received an email from Mr. Bratton. If this is you, please report to the Main LGR (Between Mrs. Morrow and Mrs. Pearl’s offices) on Thursday at 8:00am. Your teachers are aware. Please arrive with a charged brain and laptop. Many thanks and see you then!
Dear All,
Please see the equipment rules and expectations from the primary school student council. The equipment will be open to all students, please see the usage expectations below. Teachers on BTT please also remind and support the students of the expectations during breaks.
Students,
Again, here are the times and days you can tell a story about your GCD journey:
Your scaffold must be completed. You can find it under FILES here on MB.
Please upload to MB (scaffold including summary + title, photos, recording) and send me the link.
If you are writing a story, please upload (story, title + photos) and send me the link.
Here are the deadlines and total number of stories required:
Let me know how I might support you.
Dear advisors,
This video was shown during the last assembly. Please watch the video again with your advisory students. Then, share with them the QR code (below) so they can guess the number of steps in the video. The closest guess will win a prize. Deadline: Wednesday, May 8th, 3 pm.
Thank you!
The 10 000 Step Service Group
Please check SchoolsBuddy for volunteering opportunities this Saturday, May 11th. We need volunteers for the ISNAC Basketball tournament. Sign up for one of the times.
G6-11 students!
Please use some advisory time on Monday to write up your MB entries.
Summary:
Reflection:
On Thursday, May 9, at 8:05, we will have a virtual author visit by Katey Howes, the author of Rissy No Kissies. The visit will be on Microsoft Teams and will last for 15 minutes or so. She will show us her work space, explain some of her writing routines, and have time for questions and answers. Please email your student’s questions (or yours) to me so we can pre-pick and prepare the students asking questions. Questions must be emailed to me by noon on Tuesday, please.
In case you missed it in the Friday daily bulletin:
Our usage of “The Day” for news at various reading levels is phenomenal! So much so that they are willing to give us a discount if we explain how it is being used in class. So, please, if you use “The Day” in your classes, fill out this four-question survey.
Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!
The following students will be out of class all day on Friday 10 May for the ISTA Theatre Festival.
G6: Gyuri, Haoyuan, Tabitha, Enhao, Billie, Jasmine, Hedy, Alalei
G7: Simon, Gyubeen
G8: Skiing, Yeonwoo, Seohyun, Jimin, Aila, Yifan, Huyayi
Development Swim Meet will take place this Friday @ BSN. Please find the attached students who will be absent from school @ 2:00pm on Friday, 10th May for the Meet.
Thank you.