“The very least you can do in your life is
figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.
Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”―
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Vertical
Teams
September 19, 2:30-5:00 Wednesday’s Meeting time will
be used to meet in Vertical Teams. Team Facilitators will lead the
meetings.
Agendas will
come from individual facilitators. Coffee, tea, and refreshments will be served.
Purpose
Statement:
The purpose of
Vertical Curricular Teams is to create cross-sectional opportunities for
subject specific discussions and provide greater curriculum and instruction
alignment EY-12. Vertical Teams are organized to help answer important
subject-area questions, as below, and to work on specific curriculum
development as determined by TALL,
cCore, and the Office of Teaching and Learning. The Vertical Teams are
lead by the Facilitators listed below.
Vertical Team membership is determined by principal and/or teaching
assignment.
Guiding
Questions:
- What is the major
work (purpose) of the Vertical Team / curriculum area?
- What EY-12
curricular area(s) are most in need of improvement? Instruction,
Assessment, Alignment...
- How is data being
used to guide curriculum, instruction, and assessment?
- Where is your
vertical area (science, EAL, math, etc.) on the Curriculum Development
Process. LINK HERE
Vertical Team
Meetings Dates and Times:
August 22,
3:45-5:00 (K-12 Specialist, and 6-12 Vertical Teams)
September 19,
2:30-5:00
January 16,
2:30-5:00
February 6,
2:30-5:00
March 6,
3:45-5:00
Math--Calley
Connelly
Science--Rebekah
Lopata
Social
Studies--Walter Basnight
English /
Language Arts--Shari Abbott
Visual
Arts--Kate Wentworth
Performing
Arts--Deb Lee
World
Language—Keeley Tagtmeyer
P.E.--James
Dowling
EAL--Seema
Sandhir
LSS--Lucy
Palmquist
Counseling –Jen
Gold
Mix--Priya V.
Indian
Studies--Preethi
Strategic
Pathway Committee
As part of our
commitment to AISC Talent and Professional Growth, I am seeking individuals
with a passion in professional growth and evaluation to serve in a Focus and
Feedback Group to the PGE Task Force (lead by Head of School and Dir. of
Teaching and Learning), if interested please follow up in the form LINK HERE with statement of your desire to serve.
Dates to
Remember
Adaptive
Schools Foundations Training @ AISC October 19-22, 2018
In order to
internally train some of the 65 AISC faculty who are not Adaptive School
trained AND to make an opportunity for individuals to be eligible for Advanced
Training (scheduled for Nov. 2018 on the AISC campus), TALL approved offering a
voluntary Foundations Training for October 19-22, 2018. For more
information on the training, see the AISC Professional Learning Event
Descriptions on the AISC website LINK HERE, read more about the facilitators LINK HERE.
The dates of the
on campus training for Adaptive School Foundations Training (AISC Faculty
only)--4 total days--October 19-22. If you previously signed up for the
April 2018 training that was postponed, your name has already been added to the
list of interested participants (unless you have told me otherwise) .
There is no personal professional development expense associated with
this training.
Final approval
of attendance would be handled by your respective supervisor. This survey is to
indicate interest to attend. If you have already arranged with your
supervisor to attend, you have also been added.
NESA Fall
Leadership Conference--Oct. 18-21, Athens
NESA Fall
Training Institute--Nov. 2-3, Amman
Joelle
Basnight & Megha Radhakrishnan, Adaptive Schools Foundations Training--Oct. 19-21
Carol Simoneau & Doreen Miori-Merola, Advanced Adaptive
Schools Training--Nov. 12-15
Topics at WTI in CHENNAI:
- Literacy Coaching Cohort LINK HERE for more
information
- Math Instruction in Elementary
School with Sherry Parrish
- Designing Quality Assessment
for Physical Education
- Building Networked Communities
of Practice with Joelle Killion
- Student Achievement with Ken
O’Connor
Suzie Boss, Project Based Learning--Jan. 21-24
& Jan. 28 - Feb. 1
Erin Kent, TCWRP, Focus on Reading--Feb. 4-8
Erma Anderson Math Specialist in International Schools
Training--March 19-21---Institute #3
NESA Spring Educators
Conference--Mar. 29-31
Dr. Ochan Kusuma-Powell, Cognitive Coaching Foundations Part 1 (Days
1-4)--April 13-16
Professional
Growth and Evaluation Deadlines
Professional
Growth Plan Paperwork and Meeting---completed between September 15-30
SAP-X Quad
Blogging Meeting---September 27
SAP-S Summative
Paperwork---completed by September 28
Professional
Growth New Teacher Plan--completed by September 28
Professional
Learning Opportunities
Global Online
Academy Courses FREE for AISC! LINK HERE to sign up for Rethinking Assessment, October 15-19, 2019
Knowledge
Source Upcoming Workshops
A Reggio Emilia based Workshop for Early Years
Teachers LINK HERE
Performance towards Proficiency – Assessing Authenticity of Oral
Communication UNIS Hanoi, October 20, 21 2018 LINK HERE for more information.
Teaching and
Learning Through Inquiry By Trevor MacKenzie 18th – 19th March 2019, Hong Kong 22nd - 23rd March 2019,
Munich 25th - 26th March 2019, Dubai LINK HERE
The Association of International Schools of India, Leadership Conference, September 27-29,
Taj Lands End, Mumbai LINK HERE for more information
EAL Shout-out!
Literacy and Language can go hand-in-hand. However, the amount of words
a student needs to sound proficient is very different from the amount of words
students need to sound academically proficient. If you're looking for something
to focus on, reading is always there! With that being said, make sure students
are reading with purpose. This provides opportunities to deepen the knowledge
of target words and linguistic forms. For minimal comprehension, students
should know 90% of the words on the page; for adequate comprehension, 95%
(TESOL, 2018).
So, as we focus on literacy for all student, some challenges merit
individual attention:
· Students
may be working with an unknown writing system.
· English
is notorious for its confusing and inconsistent spelling.
· The
line connecting literacy to oracy may not be direct.
· Vocabulary,
vocabulary, vocabulary.
· For
some, finding pleasure in reading takes time.
· The
journey from decoding to understanding is different for everyone.
I think we've all heard this before: sometimes we are "Learning to
Read" and other times we are "Reading to Learn". It's important
to remember, learning to read does not stop in the primary years. As students
go thru schooling, they are constantly learning to read new types of texts. An
easy activity to check if students are being successful with navigating the dot
points above is for students to paraphrase what they have read. To scaffold
paraphrasing, speaking or writing or drawing activities will do.
If you'd like to continue this conversation, let me know! Or, if there
is something EAL related you'd like to know more about, please send an email.
My door is always open.
peace-
Sarah
Room 1209
Wellness
at AISC
Interested to
read more about wellness activities at AISC and in Chennai? If so, click HERE for
AISC WELLNESS MATTERS BLOG to stay updated. We have lots of exciting events planned so be
sure to check in!
Worthwhile
Reading
When applying to
college, this character trait may mean more than grades LINK HERE for article in the Washington Post
Three lessons for Teachers from Grant Wiggins LINK HERE, sneak peak, lesson #1 is plan backwards from authentic performance.
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