Author Archives: Pak Liam

About Pak Liam

Living, teaching and traveling in Asia.

Dunia presents our annual IB Teachers’ Conference

Firstly, save the date. We’ve been told that this is the third biggest IB Conference in the world, and at 200,000 Rp it is most certainly the most economical. Next year, GJIS are hosting this event. Secondly, I would like … Continue reading

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GJIS’ Personal Project Grading and Standardizing Timeline

Here is the timeline for the grading of your personal projects and also the standardizing of all personal project grades. (all staff are to be involved) Week TASK Deadline Week 6  Supervisors grade PP Reports Friday 17th May Week 7 … Continue reading

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Community ‘n Service holiday programme 2013

This year, eighty-two GJIS students from Year 7 through to Year 10 decided to join our CnS camp to complete our CnS hours. The CnS camp was 3 days and 2 nights and it took place in Tangerang Selatan and … Continue reading

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Combined Indonesian IB Schools Personal Project Exhibition

Our Dunia network will be holding a Combined Indonesian IB Schools Personal Project Exhibition on Saturday the first of June, details are still be worked out but will be as follows;

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Global Jaya has just purchased a K-12 ManageBac Curriculum Account

Global Jaya International School has purchased a full account for Year k-12 for ManageBac, this means from next year all PYP, MYP and DP curriculum documents and calendar items will be seamlessly integrated. Firstly, we need to get all Heads of Year … Continue reading

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The latest news on the proposed Indonesian government regulations for Education

I was recently at a meeting with a number of Education officials who are working to get the Education regulations into place before the end of the year. They were kind enough to share their draft documents. (even if our … Continue reading

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Ibu Megawati visits our Kartini Day Fashion Show Celebration

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Lost and Found

Of 84 items reported lost this year we have recovered 81. Some students names come up repeatedly for ‘losing’ stuff and then finding it in Lost and Found … Parents then complain to us that things sometimes get stolen. What … Continue reading

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Creationist propaganda in schools (Dinosaur Bible Test)

It used to be that creationists denied that dinosaurs existed at all, their response to what are the ancient bones we find then was that “Satan put them in the ground to tempt us”. However, over the past decade it … Continue reading

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A slideshow of GJIS’ 2013 Personal Project Exhibition

Sighhhhhhhhh. We’re done! A very large thank-you to all the PP supervisors, teachers who advised, admin and cleaning staff assisting with set up, teachers who visited the Exhibition today and anyone who assisted or was even just inconvenienced by all … Continue reading

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