Tag Archives: myp

Year 6 Graduation 2012

Posted on June 19, 2012 by

Our Year 6′s are graduating today. They have finished their PYP (Primary Years Programme) and will be officially moving into the MYP (Middle Years Programme). I’ve visited some classes, been a guest speaker, mentored groups working on their Exhibition and … Continue reading →

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Maths Advisory Visit for GJIS

Posted on June 8, 2012 by

Today and tomorrow all our secondary Maths staff are off timetable because they will be spending time reviewing our MYP Maths programme. Topics include Understanding AoI’s and Student Inquiry, Vertical and Horizontal Planning, Designing Assessments and Unit Planning. We are … Continue reading →

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Example MYP Unit Plans and Scope and Sequence documents

Posted on June 6, 2012 by

As an educator I am a big believer in sharing, collaborating and improving. After all we are supposed to be life long learners. In my experience, many teachers are often reluctant to share their materials, for various reasons. If you … Continue reading →

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ATL SKills: Using a Mind Map Prezi for getting organised in a digital age

Posted on May 30, 2012 by

http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swf Mind Map Getting Organised on Prezi *edit, I’m trying to embed the prezi into this post, but failing so far. will update when I manage to do so correctly. Here is a prezi for presenting the above mind map … Continue reading →

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Parents IB Continuum Workshops

Posted on April 28, 2012 by

Here are the details for the parents’ IB Continuum workshops being held to GJIS today.

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Day of Action Kony 2012

Posted on April 20, 2012 by

*photo to be included later in the day*   One of the concepts  in the IB PYP is ‘Action’, whereby students not only show awareness and understanding of issues but that they also take action and do something. Recently the … Continue reading →

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Term 4 – The final run

Posted on April 9, 2012 by

Welcome back, a PD day to start with. (schedule below). Term 4 already, how did that happen ? This term we have IB Biology and IB ESS trips to Pramuka Island for an ecological study field trip, we have IB … Continue reading →

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Assessment Workshop at Sekolah Cikal

Posted on February 13, 2012 by

I just spent a couple of days at Sekolah Cikal leading an Assessment Workshop on MYP. Sekolah Cikal is a smallish sized international school that is growing into their Middle Years Programme, currently they have Year 6 and Year 7 … Continue reading →

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Classroom desk arrangements; Rows, Clusters or U Shape?

Posted on November 17, 2011 by

There are a several critical teaching behaviours that affect student behaviour. One of the most important is how a teacher plans the physical classroom environment ? When I was studying Education at University, in Australia, it was pretty much an … Continue reading →

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IB Dunia Networks Produce the annual Teacher’s Conference

Posted on November 9, 2011 by

In partnership with the MYP Coordinators and PYP Coordinators Networks presents the Indonesian IB Schools Teacher’s Conference “Critical Thinking across the IB Continuum”  

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