Category: Staff

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Dear All,

Please find attached the latest SLT meeting minutes for your information.

SLT – Nov 29

Please find the attached students who will be absent from school @ 9:50am on Thursday, 7th December and whole day on Friday, 8th December for the ACAMIS Swim Meet.ACAMIS Senior Swim Meet

We are ordering an E-request form system named HOSE (合思软件) so that we can fill in the request form, submit the E-receipt or FA PIAO via the HOSE APP or on the website. It would replace the hard-copy request form procedure and make it easier to track our request’s approval & payment status.

We’ve passed HOSE our basic information, such as our staff list with the emails and mobile phone numbers, budget structure, general request forms’ classification with the procedure, and so on. The software technicians are setting it up for our trial next month or later.

On 28 Nov 2023, the system suddenly activated our access during setup, and every staff member should have received both the email and mobile message containing the initial password. The technician explained they had to activate all accounts before carrying out the different access setup, and they apologized without noticing us in advance. You can ignore the message right now. We have scheduled the User Guide and training in Feb 2024.

Any inquiries, please let me know.

Grade 7 Visual Arts Trip 

On Wednesday, November 29, (Day 4) the following students will visit the Deji Art Museum as part of our current unit “Still Life and the 24 Solar Terms”. We will depart school at 9:10 am. We will aim to return to school by 1 pm and students will be able to attend their Block 4 and 5 classes.

Alexia, Mandy and I will accompany the students on the trip to the Museum.

Thanks for your understanding and flexibility.

Grade 7 Visual Arts Trip students missing Blocks 2 and 3 on November 29, Day 4:

Eva

HaRin

Jinwoo

Doyun

HyoEun (Lumy)

Yena

Yunen (Ivy)

Greta

Mengyao

Gaeun (Julie)

Hyelim

Seonghyun (Denis)

Rebecca

Dingyu (Toby)

ZiChao (Jake)

Chanhee

Yingxian (Tom)

Xinyu (Angela)

The ISNAC Santa SKINS Swim Meet will take place this Friday @ BSN, please find the attached students who will be absent from school @ 1pm for this meet. ISNAC SKINS Meet

Thank you.

Dear all,

Laurie will be the MOD on Dec. 2, 2023.

Best wishes,

Clara

Do you want some help with the tedious process of report card comment writing?  Of course you do,  who doesn’t.

This tip is a step-by-step process, including sample prompts, that you can follow to get POE to help with this.

• Open POE. (Go here if you still haven’t setup POE)
• Click Explore (top left), then choose either Claude-instant or ChatGPT
• Copy and paste each of these prompts one at a time, modifying to suit your purposes.
  • My students have been studying the area of [insert Topic], assessed against the International Baccalaureate [PYP/MYP/DP (select one)] [insert Subject Area] Criteria. Are you familiar with this Assessment Criteria?
  • Please give me [insert Quantity] possible positive comments aligned with this Assessment Criteria consistent with a student achievement level of [insert achievement level 1-7] , written from a 3rd person perspective without including any student names.
  • Please give me [insert Quantity] possible comments for ways that students could improve consistent with a student achievement level of [insert achievement level 1-7] , aligned with this Assessment Criteria written from a 3^rd person perspective without including any student names.
• Note: In the first prompt, the more specific you are with your topic, the better the AI generated comments will generally be.

This will give you a bank of possible comments that you can mix and match that are appropriate to your particular needs, ready for tailoring to specific students.  Remember to modify the prompts to suit your class and students, but this will give you a starting point.  Let me know if you need any help with this.

As always, this tip, along with all previously published Tuesday Tech Tips including other related to AI use at NIS can be found here.

Dear All,

Please find attached SLT meeting minutes of week 14 for your information.

SLT – Nov 22

This tip continues the focus on using AI to assist in your teaching practices. It provides links to two sets of curated lists of AI resources to help you get started with using AI in your teaching.

I have put together the following sets if resources to assist you in narrowing down which AI tools are the best to get started with, and then provide some examples of effective prompts to use with these tools.

AI Tools for the Busy Teacher : This contains links to a collection of online AI tools designed specifically to help teachers with their planning and preparation.

Prompt Guides for Teachers : This contains links to a collection of PDF’s and websites which have got exemplar prompts and details of what these prompts will help you generate.

For your convenient access,  I have also provided links to these resources in Teams. I will continue to update these as new and improved resources become available.

Remember, this tip, along with all previously published Tuesday Tech Tips including other related to AI use at NIS can be found here.

Dear NIS Teachers,

We are thrilled to share some exciting news with you all. In our continuous effort to integrate cutting-edge technology into our educational framework, we have now taken a significant leap forward with the creation of an AI chatbot, aptly named NIS_AI_Coach, designed specifically to assist you in integrating AI into your learning environments. NIS_AI_Coach is a custom-built AI chatbot created on the Poe platform. It’s designed to function as an AI in education expert, offering real-time assistance and advice on how to effectively incorporate AI tools and methodologies into your classrooms.

You can find the NIS_AI_Coach at the following URL https://poe.com/NIS_AI_Coach

We encourage you to make the most of this innovative tool. It’s a step towards not only enhancing our teaching methodologies but also preparing our students for a future where AI plays a significant role.