Student Services Update March 7th-11th

Admin WP | March 4, 2016 | Counselor's Corner | No Comments

ADVISORY: MONDAY March 7, 2016

Grade 9: Students with the last name A-L should go directly to the fitness lab in the basement and students with the last name N-z should go to the HS Gym for registration information with their counselor.

Grade 10: Students should go directly to the auditorium for the AEO College Tour in the Auditorium

1. London School of Economics
2. Trinity College Dublin
3. Abilene Christian University
4. Arizona State University
5. Baruch College – City U of New York
6. California State University, San Marcos
7. Centenary College
8. DePaul University
9. East Carolina University
10. El Camino College
11. Fairleigh Dickinson University
12. Lane Community College
13. Luther College
14. Millersville University of Pennsylvania
15. New England Institute of Technology
16. North Seattle College
17. Portland State University
18. St. John’s University
19. San Jose City College
20. Santiago Canyon College
21. Shoreline Community College
22. University of Alabama
23. University of California Irvine
24. University of Oklahoma
25. University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
26. University of Wyoming
27. Utah State University
28. Virginia Tech
29. West Virginia University
30. Wichita State University
31. College of Hotel Management
32. Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne

Grade 11: Students will meet in advisory groups to work on the SSIS University Guidance Manual that was shared with students last week during course registration. The highlighted items are most important as counselors will assign a college to each student for next week’s advisory to research and present on.

Grade 12: Students should meet in the following advisory groupings: Ms. Mooney, Mr. Ratliff and Mr. Schmidt in Cs22 HS student lounge. Ms. Adams and Ms. Burge in Ms. Adam’s room. Students will discuss their findings about campus sexual safety during the Senior transition seminar 2. Please review the activity prior to advisory. Please also share the What is consent? handout that Tina and Alison put together as part of the health curriculum preview day.

IB Updates – (scroll down for important dates and links)

Feedback mock exams:

Students approached their exams with maturity and commitment, showing great stamina – despite many of them sitting back to back exams. It is good to know that the real IB exams will not be this tight in timings as it has been a very full week for students, they have been wonderful throughout. Look forward to taking this into consideration when planning next year’s mocks. Thank you also to Yuki O and Brian H for helping to run an organised, smooth and seamless mock exam process for the students.

Extended Essays

Thanks for handing in completed EEs, it is a great achievement for our students to complete their first intensive research project. Thank you to supervisors for your expert, consistent and helpful guidance throughout the process. Looking forward to an EE cake party with students and supervisors to celebrate their success.

Research Series starting

Based on trying to help students gain more confidence with the research process, Grade 11 will be receiving research sessions run by Lara Keller and myself. These sessions will be run at lunchtimes and after school to assist students with the research process. Ideally, these can be timetabled in the future to assist students with the process within the school schedule.

Our tentative schedule (tbc) is as follows:

Week of Monday 7th March: CB – Forming and framing a research question + Undertaking research / collecting data

Week of Monday March 14th: LK: How to Navigate and get the best from Databases + Academic Honesty/Strategies to avoid plagiarism (summarizing, etc.)

Week of Monday March 21st LK: Citations – What you need to know/Bibliographies

Week of Monday March 28th CB Establishing a healthy writing routine

Week of April 4th: Additional sessions will be added after this date: CB Distraction-free writing sessions + Booster sessions – these can be separate sessions based on how the students are doing in the process. will be offered throughout the year to assist students with the process and action of writing.

Important Dates:

**EEs need to be in examiner’s hands by March 15th. I will be mailing them Friday 9th March, students have been told that everything must be completed by Wednesday 7th.

1) MAJOR SUBMISSION DEADLINE: EE, TOK, Lang A Written Assignment, Lang A Lang and Lit Written task, Lang B written assignments, Lang ab intio written assignments

MUST BE UPLOADED (EE mailed to reach examiners) TO IB BY: Wednesday March 15th

SSIS INTERNAL DEADLINE: Friday March 11th

2) ALL PREDICTED GRADES DUE: Enter marks for internal assessment and predicted grades, including predicted grades for EE and TOK essays

MUST BE UPLOADED TO IB BY : Sunday April 10th

SSIS INTERNAL DEADLINE: Friday April 1st

3) IA SAMPLE WORK AND FORMS DUE:

MUST BE UPLOADED / MAILED BY IB: Wednesday April 20th

SSIS INTERNAL DEADLINE: Thursday April 7th

4) VISUAL ARTS Visual arts upload materials as required for option and level in accordance with the Visual arts guide.

MUST BE UPLOADED / MAILED BY IB:April 20th

SSIS INTERNAL DEADLINE: Wednesday April 13th

5) MUSIC – send musical links investigations, each with form 6/MLI to the examiner