Category: Staff

Language Acquisition

Provide follow-up activities that reinforce vocabulary and concepts.

Annual Home Leave Allowance Updates

Dear Overseas Colleagues,

Your 2015-16 Home Leave Allowance has been updated basing on current contract end, please feel free to get the individual letter via pigeonhole today.

Thanks/Myra

Duty Notice -PYP Football

There is an ongoing football match in the concrete area outside the school main entrance. This match has been going on for sometime now (I think the actual score is Team A 351-350 Team B). Unfortunately we have to end the match with no clear winner.

The good news… the match will restart in the grass area or football pitch where there is no danger of a window being broken.

If you are on duty in the area (grass, climbing frame) or if you are just passing by please let students know. Thanks for your support.

10-12 Advisories – Friday

For Extended Advisory this coming Friday, please let your advisor know that you are present and then:

Gr10 – with Mr Morin in MYP LGR (PPP)

Gr11 – with Mr Hutchinson in D210 (ManageBac)

Gr12 – updating Family Connection. Use Diploma Lounge and/or Library. Request references both personally and through Family Connection. Complete Profile in Family Connection. Ensure you have a list of Universities in ‘Universities/Colleges I’m thinking about’ and move those you are fairly sure about to ‘Active Applications’. Make sure Common App is matched to Family Connection if you are going to be applying to the US. Start drafting your College Essay or your Personal Statement.

Explore http://share.nanjing-school.com/counseling/

Are you a writer?

EARCOS has a tri-annual journal that is published every fall, winter and spring. If you are a writer, have you considered writing for the EARCOS Tri-Annual Journal? Articles can be in the area of Curriculum, Green/Sustainable, Campus Development, Service Learning, Community Service and Press Releases. Please let me know if you are interested.

Many thanks,

Grace

Language Acquisition

Consider the following questions:
How will you link the content to the students’ previous knowledge?
How will you build background information? (Show a video or read a book aloud about your topic first.)
Decide what language and concepts need to be pre-taught.
How can you develop content area vocabulary? What visuals will you need?

Cindy Presenting at Lunch: Calls for feedback please

Hi all, Cindy will be presenting Algodoo PHUN 3 times today in preparation for ISKL on September 17th-21st. In coming to one of of her presentations, we hope that you learn something, but we also ask that you give feedback.
The presentations are in C136 (beside the Library)

Algodoo PHUN – Science/Physics/Simple Machines app
(3x 5-minute Speed-Geeking presentations – All the same)
Mon Sep 14 (Lunch)

12:55 – 1:00
1:10 – 1:15
1:25 – 1:30

Tomorrow, was ask that you come to the last of the three presentations about:

iTunes/iCloud vs Seesaw
(50 minutes)
Tue Sep 15 (Lunch)
12:30 – 1:30

We hope that you can join us.
Cindy and Tom

Language Acquisition

Design one or more of the following activities for your unit:

Matching vocabulary with definitions

Cloze activity

Drawing and labelling

Labelling maps

Filling out simple charts

Sequencing activity

Advisory Group Teachers – Managebac basics

If you would me to come to your classroom to go through the basics of Managebac with you I would be happy to oblige. If interested please let me know a couple of times you are free next week.