Dear colleagues,
I hope you all had the opportunity to take a break during the long weekend. As we learned in the past week, inquiry is an effective, rewarding and sometimes challenging approach to teaching and learning. In order to facilitate inquiry like a pro, we need to consider so many complex aspects and the ongoing evolvement of this important PYP pedagogy. Once again, thank you all for the inspiring and hard work on keeping us all on top of our game. Wishing you all an enjoyable and productive week!
Supervision: Link to Master schedule
Time
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12:15-12:40
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12:25-12:55
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12:25-12:55
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12:15-12:40
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Week
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Cafeteria Tables
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Playground
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Playground
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Healthy lunch guide in the cafeteria line
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2/8/2016
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Kasumi
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Karen
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Aimee
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Not applicable at the moment
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Inquiry Workshop & PD Day Follow-up
We would like to thank everyone for a great Thursday PD session of sharing and follow-up on the Inquiry workshop with Tania. Here is the link to all your: unit planners, rubrics, and pictures of posters from the whole school brainstorm. This session was particularly valuable on a number of levels. ie. In looking across grades at what other units, seeing other sample 'rubrics of understanding', and brainstorming age appropriate connections to the related concept as provocations to help learners grasp those concepts fundamental to understanding the inquiry.
Working with Tania's process, has changed the way we/I view provocations. First, creating age appropriate connections to the related concepts first, is a new key step in the process. Second, provocations should activate students' schema, provoke student thinking, and invite them to learn about the new inquiry. As part of this step, we should also be pre-assessing their interests and prior-knowledge of the inquiry to meet their needs. Here are two interesting blog posts by WhatEdSaid (provocation similar to G3) and one from the PYP blog (unpacking related concepts). Thanks Kim for sharing these posts. If you have more thoughts on provocations, let's discuss them in collab planning.
Assembly
The next assembly will be on February 23 at 11:00.
This assembly is connected to the Pink Shirt Day originated in the Secondary School and coordinated between the counselors in both sections. ES Leadership Club will join their forces with the Middle School SBC to visit classrooms before the assembly. Check the assembly blog post here.
Building Professional Capital:
PD in your Pajamas!
Webinar on conferring with student readers and writers (Dan Feigelson and Carl Anderson)!
Articles, Chapters, Videos
Here are two interesting blog posts about provocations by WhatEdSaid (provocation similar to G3) and one from the PYP blog (unpacking related concepts).
Here are two interesting blog posts about provocations by WhatEdSaid (provocation similar to G3) and one from the PYP blog (unpacking related concepts).
Coordinator's Meetings
- Literacy Meetings as scheduled
- UOI meetings as per the schedule
Wednesday Professional Learning and Faculty Meeting Time: 14:35-16:30
G5 Teachers' Exhibition Meeting
Collaborative Planning
This Week 15 - 19 February, 2016
Monday, Tech Talk
Tuesday, ES Student Services Meeting
Wednesday, Exhibition Meeting, Collaborative Planning
Thursday, Community Book Club Launch 18:30 - Re-designed model.
Friday, ES Leadership Team Meeting, CA Core Planning Team Meeting, Junior Talent Show
Future Dates:
Feb 23 ES Assembly
Feb 29th- Running Records due in system