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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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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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MYP gains recognition from Association of Indian Universities

The Singapore Office of the International Baccalaureate has announced that they have signed an agreement with the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) that the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme is equal to grade 10 of an India Board Assessment Certificate. … Continue reading

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An ATL graphic

*This is a draft format that I have created, it is not official nor necessarily correct. The full mindmap can be found here. (and the drop down menu for the skill indicators within the skill clusters http://www.mindmeister.com/248286965/atl-we-have-5-broad-skill-areas-shared-with-pyp-myp-dp

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MYP Exams at GJIS for Semester 1

While it is true that there are no external exams set by the IB for the Middle Years Programme (MYP)1 many schools choose to hold exams in some or all Years of the MYP as good practice and an authentic … Continue reading

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Dunia IB MYP Schools’ Personal Project Exhibition

Our Dunia Network want to have a combined Indonesian MYP Schools’ Personal Project Exhibition. Currently, nearly all of us have some sort of MYP Personal Project Exhibition or Fair at our schools and often we issue invitations to each other … Continue reading

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Making Math more accessible

I recently read an article in the New York Times Opinion by Andrew Hacker titled ‘Is Algebra Necessary?’. Now I think he makes some sweeping generalizations about Maths, including blaming Algebra for all the nation’s woes regarding students failing school … Continue reading

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MYP Interdisciplinary Unit (ARTS and Language B)

These are pictures of the culminating activity of an MYP Interdisciplinary Unit (ARTS & Language B, Mandarin.) after their trip to Beijing. 

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Welcome back to a new year !

Welcome back to a new year, our teachers will all be meeting for the next three days with three main tasks; 1) Preparing for our WASC evaluation visit. 2) Preparing our IB Self studies for our evaluation visit, and 3) … Continue reading

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Evaluating your MYP, a workshop in preparation for our MYP School Visit

I’m currently in Melbourne for the next three days, attending an IB Regional Workshop called “Evaluating your MYP”, this is a workshop specially for preparation IB School Visits.

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