Good morning – welcome to Day 5 of INSET,

I hope that everyone enjoyed a stimulating day yesterday!

After PLTs, enjoy the final two conference sessions this week. The choices of sessions can be seen in both foyers and in the screen shots below. As there have been a couple of changes since Monday, please check for these updates.

Thank you enormously for all of our colleagues who have shared their passions with us this week.

And finally – our teachers certainly have rhythm and rhyme! Please make any further contributions to the limericks and other poems by 1:00pm today. Check out the NIS talent on Office 365.

See you all for our INSET celebration in the PAC at 3:00.

Enjoy,
Arden

Good morning!

Enjoy a day of creative thinking, exploring new frontiers and possibilities to enhance our students’ learning and our own professional growth.

When you have a natural break in your “flow” (see Csikszentmihalyi) – check out the growing repertoire of limericks on Office 365!

Friday morning promises to be another exciting day of conference sessions – see the final updated version attached here. These is also posted in both foyers.

Friday afternoon, we’ll gather in the PAC at 3:00 for a celebration of the week and of our new creative undertakings. There will be an opportunity for some informal sharing, drinks and some light refreshments.

Have an original day,
Arden
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Staff:

Please look at the schedule for individual and group photo times. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you.Yearbook mugshots and homeroom photos

Why not upcycle some of the junk in the Fish Bowl into a stunning new outfit for the Earth Hour Trashion Show on March 28th? Outfit description to the MYP Student Council by March 27th. Be ready to sashay along the catwalk!

If you would like to attend Nickie’s session this afternoon, please bring your laptop and a hard copy or virtual model (ie. graphs, tables, pictures showing vocabulary, diagrams, shapes, patterns, mind maps, flow charts, etc.) that you hope your students will be able to understand and explain.

Have a great day!

Good morning!

Please see the attached screen shots for today’s conference sessions.

Remember to Tweet your experiences, and log into Office 365 or check the white boards for today’s Limerick prompts.

Have a great day two,
Arden

All staff, please bring your laptop to today’s session on the 7 Norms of Collaboration this morning. You will need to access documents via email.
Thank you,
Jacqui

Welcome back and welcome to INSET!

To kick off our exciting week, please meet in the PAC at 8:15.

Each morning the schedule for the current and next day will be posted in the Centre Foyer.

There have already been a few changes to the week’s plans – I will send out the updated full schedule by Monday lunch.

One important change to Tuesday is that the presenter from Essential Learning Group (ELG) will not be able to lead the Speech-Language session on Tuesday. In her place, Dr Shari Rosen will lead this session at 10:40, and will offer a second session Tuesday afternoon at 1:45. Dr Rosen is the founder of ELG, a Speech-Language Pathologist, and was the 2014 recipient of the SENIA Advocacy Award.

SHARING YOUR EXPERIENCES: You should have received an email with a link to “INSET – experiences”. If you have already logged in to Office 365, click on the first link. If this is your first time, click on the “In a hurry? Use this guest link.”. Once you have opened the page, to edit, click on “Edit in browser” or “Edit document —> in Word Online”.

As there are so many opportunities for choice this week, please share your experiences.

Have an inspiring INSET week,
Arden

Congratulations to Bella Zhang who will join the PYP Mandarin teaching team for August 2015. A huge thank you to the colleagues that interviewed for the position. We are indeed fortunate to have so many talented people teaching at NIS.

Laurie

Hello all,

Come and join us TODAY for our next “Tech Committee”- “New Literacies Teach-Meet”

What: A relaxed, sharing, spurring ideas group
Where: Design | Strategy Room (C115)
When: 1:10 – 2:00pm Friday, February 13, 2015
Who: All teachers, TAs, and staff are welcome
Why: To bounce ideas off one another.
How: Please pick up your lunch and bring it along. Feel free to drop in late if you pass by and see us chatting.
To Share: Please add items here – http://bit.ly/1szGwNm

• Do you use interesting programs, subscriptions, or online resources in class that you would like to share with others?
• How about an app that would be useful for learning or life?
• Do you employ techniques for teaching that others should know about?
• Are there things you would just like to share?