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!
Page 12
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?
Page 20
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.
Page 30
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!”