Citizens of the World TABLE of CONTENTS
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SHANGHAI COMMUNITY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OCT/NOV 2017 Citizens of the World TABLE OF CONTENTS Community Features Campus Highlights P. 26-27 // Teacher Spotlight P. 4 // Director of Schools’ Letter P. 18-19 // Pudong Campus Highlight Travelling Outside your Comfort Zone ACAMIS Volleyball: One Step at a Time P. 5-11 // IB Corner On the World Stage How Does the IB Continuum of Programs P. 28-29 // Family Spotlight Provides Continuity of Learning Across P. 20-21 // Hongqiao Campus Highlight Meet the Lee Family Grade Levels at SCIS? PYP Collaboration in Action: Our Dynamic PE Team Living Our Mission P. 30 // Favorite Spot in The City My Favorite Place to Hang in Shanghai The IB Diploma and University Entrance P. 22-23 // Hongqiao ECE Campus Highlight Children’s Educational Toys To IB or Not to IB? P. 32-33 // Sport Recap Key Concept Communities, Global Concept 11th Invitational Swim Meet at SCIS Hongqiao P. 12-13 // Community Feature Globalization & Sustainability, ATL Skills Together for United Nations Day Communication and Research P. 34-35 // Alumni Spotlight Law & Music, when a Career and a Passion P. 14-17 // Language Acquisition Come Together SCIS, Where Every Teacher Is a Language Teacher P. 36-37 // Student Spotlight Prepare, Communicate and Model Experiencing a Diverse World of Cultures Word Soup! P. 38-39 // PAFA A Celebration of Nations 24-25 // China Host Culture Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival P. 31, 42 // Partner 18 MYP and DP (Dutch) at LanguageOne P. 40-41 // Art Gallery Children’s Snacks: 10 Tips for Healthier Snacking 12 32 4 DIRECTOR OF SCHOOLS’ LETTER IB CORNER 5 Dear SCIS Community, to share their ideas in a diverse SCIS classroom, How Does the IB Continuum of Programs which boast an average of 6 nationalities. With this Over the past month, SCIS has hosted celebrations diversity, SCIS provides its students with the chance Provides Continuity of Learning on each of our three campuses highlighting to create global understanding, gain intercultural the diverse national make-up of our learning communication skills, and enhance additional Across Grade Levels at SCIS? community. The United Nations International language acquisition. This all occurs within a shared Day of Peace and UN Day provide students, context that stresses the importance of respecting Diploma Programme (DP) have a shared parents and faculty the opportunity to wear their one another’s cultural backgrounds, traditions, traditional national attire. Though these are single values and beliefs. approach to Instruction and Assessment. day events, they are colourful reminders of one of Instruction is designed through inquiry the most unique strengths behind our outstanding In valuing the strength that our diverse population and contextualized in real world situations community of schools… Diversity. brings to our community, SCIS works to ensure in order to stimulate natural curiosity our diversity can be maintained. We promote and allow students to make connections Since 1996, families from nearly every corner of the this through admissions initiatives, inviting mother between what they are learning in the Earth have enrolled at SCIS. This school year alone, tongue language programs onto campuses, and by classroom and the world outside. Skills and SCIS has students from over 60 countries making it working directly with consulates and companies. knowledge are balanced with an emphasis the most nations ever represented at any one time SCIS is also committed to representing this on concepts that can be transferred and within our system of schools. When these students diversity within our faculty and staff. Currently applied to new and different contexts. return home after school, they could be speaking there are teachers, administrators and support staff Assessment across grade levels is designed any one of the 40 plus languages and dialects our members from nearly twenty nationalities. This to emphasize the importance of applying families communicate in. Outside of the United further supports the student experience of learning newly acquired knowledge, skills, and Nations itself, it would be difficult to find this within a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, and multi-lingual concepts to real world problems. Finally, diverse a community interacting on a daily basis. environment. the IB continuum of skills and holistic No More Suitcase! Primary Years, Middle Years, and Learner Profile traits run through all Both UN Day and the International Day of Peace It is truly an exceptional experience to be a part of programs, building on each other each year. make for some wonderful photographs as they such a diverse centre for learning. While UN Day One of the biggest criticisms of Diploma Programmes have a consistent International School curricula around the planning and curriculum documentation are a colourful reminder of where we all come and the International Day of Peace may only come International Continuity around once a year, SCIS celebrates our incredible world has been the lack of consistency framework. This framework plans with from. However, what is even more telling, is that The IB was founded in part to ensure this diverse population learns, plays, and grows diversity on a daily basis both inside and outside and continuity of student learning the end in mind, with clear expectations that students of internationally mobile together in a caring and accepting environment on the classroom. So please take the opportunity to across grade levels and across schools. for what students should know and families could still work towards a shared a daily basis. Our work within the IB framework share in our celebration throughout the pages of Students often repeat some important be able to do by the end of each unit. recognized credential regardless of what builds off the strength diversity brings to a learning this edition of our Communitas magazine as we learning standards while never covering Documentation of the curriculum across city or country they found themselves community through the concept of International share stories and images that highlight the diversity others. This phenomenon is commonly all programmes is a requirement of IB in. Since that time, the number of IB Mindedness. International Mindedness is an of our incredible learning community at SCIS. referred to inside international schools as authorization. The IB regularly reviews Diploma, Middle Years, and Primary Years understanding, respecting, and valuing of different curriculum in a suitcase. Teachers arrive the school’s curriculum to ensure that this Programmes around the world have cultures while recognizing that diversity brings with with their lessons and unit plans and then requirement is met. This framework and dramatically increased. Whether students it a strength in exposure to different perspectives. Sincerely, they take them with them when they external quality control ensures stability are transitioning into SCIS or moving on leave. This leaves their replacements of the curriculum from year to year. No to another country, the IB continuum Our SCIS faculty place International Mindedness scrambling and schools poorly equipped more curriculum in a suitcase! framework provides consistency. at the forefront of our work as they consider to provide the continuity required to the multi-lingual backgrounds and intercultural optimize learning and growth. How can Vertical Articulation Daniel D. Eschtruth understanding of our students when planning, this be avoided? In addition to a common approach teaching and assessing units of work. Students Director of Schools to curriculum development, the IB By FRANK VOLPE, then are better supported to have an opportunity Shanghai Community International School Consistency and Stability Primary Years Programme (PYP), Upper School Principal at SCIS Pudong The International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Programme (MYP), and Communitas is about community Communitas is published and we rely on contributions from six times per year for the SCIS community. the SCIS community, our friends, OCT/NOV 2017 and the larger Should you have any commentary, Shanghai community. Editor: Mikael Masson Editor: Lili Shi observations, wish to submit articles, Art Director: Mun Yee Choo or inquire as to ways to collaborate, We are social! Feel free Designer:Designer: AllesAlles ZhengZheng feel free to send all to visit us on the web at inquiries or correspondence to www.scis-china.org and follow us! Do you have a story to tell, a project the Communitas editor to share, or art to be displayed? Let via email at Communitas be a platform for your voice. [email protected]. 6 IB CORNER t SCIS one of the many reasons we Mrs. Babb’s class. We talked about what it IB CORNER 7 Achose to become a fully authorized meant, and I was so thankful that my son three programme IB school is because attended a school where he was learning we whole-heartedly believe in the to be a better person and learning social International Baccalaureate Organization’s responsibility in his first grade music (IBO) mission. class. While I was feeling low about the news segment I had just seen, my son The IBO mission states: “The International was singing about our responsibility to Living Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, impact the world for good. My first grader knowledgeable and caring young people encouraged me to be the change Our who help to create a better and more I wanted to see in the world. peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect… These I was incredibly touched by Wei programmes encourage students (William) Ai’s speech during our UN Day Mission across the world to become active, celebration. When referencing the fact compassionate and lifelong learners who that one out of a hundred people in the understand that other people, with their world is a refugee, William challenged the differences, can also be right.” SCIS community: “As members of the human race, we should be concerned. As an educator, I truly believe that it is No matter how distant they might through education that we create a more be, when people are humiliated and peaceful future, and we do that by teaching physically attacked, it should matter to our students to be caring and by exposing us.