Vietnam-Laos-Myanmar-Cambodia Job Alikes

The Job-Alikes are starting soon. Here is the form for the upcoming 2017 Job-Alikes. If you want to attend a Job-Alike, then I can sign you up on the official form. You will need to fill out the PD form with Tina. These are excellent opportunities to reach out with fellow educators to discuss pedagogy with like students.

Group 4 Project for G12 IB Students

The Group 4 Project is approaching for G12 IB Group 4 (Sciences) students. This is a very important of their science curriculum, and is often quite stressful for them. An official presentation of their work will follow with parents and teachers invited for the evening event. This is an opportunity for students to create their own learning and to display their accomplishments. All IB teachers, not just the Science Department, can be supportive of students getting ready mentally for their Group 4 Project – expected to be completed during Week Without Walls. Do mention it and be positive.

Year 1 IB Predictive Grades

SSIS will continue to gather data to provide to both students and parents as we began to do so last year. All IB teachers will need to provide their Year 2 IB students with a Predictive Score (1-7) in PowerSchool by OCTOBER 16th just before Parent- Teacher Conferences on Friday October 20th. These two data points will allow you to have more productive conversations with students and parents.

For all new teachers, you may be wondering why SSIS does Predictive Grades. To better understand the why of this change toward better alignment with IB philosophy and expectations, see this presentation.

Mock Exams 2018 & May Exams 2018

Mock Exams for March 2018 will be March 5-9. We will discuss later the ‘why’ (ATLs) the Mock Exams should be formative where the students take the onus of grading them and making a plan of action for their own specific learning path for the last 3 weeks of school after Spring Break and just before IB Exams begin. The final schedule for Mock Exams should be complete by the end of August. Here is the May 2018 IB Exam schedule.