CPD Update Issue 13 March 2015 An introduction to North London CPD Status Collegiate School, Jeju. pg. 2 ! Secondary English JAWS pg. 3 It is comforting to know that despite an increase in the KS2 & KS3 Science JAWS pg. 4 number of JAWS being offered in 2014-15, the Details on Teachers Conference. pg. 5 standards at each JAWS event has not dropped. After Early Years JAWS. pg. 6 scouring through previous SurveyMonkey results, the An introduction to British Vietnamese evidence is clear - overall JAWS Satisfactory Level has International School. pg. 8 increased. This is a testament to both workshop Learning Support Conference and JAWS leaders and participants in a joint effort to share good pg. 9 practice and new ideas.! Primary Mathematics JAWS. pg. 10 Professional development and networking opportunities Behind the Scenes of Science Lessons - are some of the main factors continuing to drive the Science Technician JAWS. p.11 success of the JAWS programme.! An introduction to The British School, New Delhi. pg. 12 A participant's review of the AFL JAWS. pg. 13 JAWS Satisfactory Level Secondary Science JAWS. pg. 14 80% A personal account of the NPQML course. pg. 16 60% Primary PE JAWS. pg. 17 Vipula Sharma explores The Digital 40% Classroom. pg. 18 Senior Mathematics JAWS. pg. 21 20% History JAWS. pg. 22 Information Literacy JAWS. pg. 23 0% Excellent Good Average Gifted and Talented JAWS. p.24 2013/14 2014/15 Learning Support JAWS. p. 26 Departing words from the Chairman, ! Ciaran Harrington. p.27 CPD Update Issue 8 13 March 2015 !1 An Introduction to New Member School North London Collegiate School Jeju, South Korea ! The school is located on the island of Jeju, which is a place of outstanding natural beauty. In the centre of the island stands Mt Halla, South Korea’s highest peak and the coastline is dotted with many stunning beaches. NLCS, Jeju was the first school to open as part of the Global Education City, which will eventually house a number of international schools and a !University. ! ! NLCS Jeju offers the IGCSE and IB and many of our students go on to Universities all around the world. The majority of which go onto UK and US Universities. The school opened in Sept 2011 with 450 students. We now have just over 800 students. Many of our students board, with about 75% of the senior school students living at the school. ! James Monaghan! !Vice Principal – Teaching and Learning! It is with great pleasure that I introduce myself to the CPD FOBISIA community. As Vice Principal Teaching and Learning at North London Collegiate School, Jeju. I am very excited at the prospect of getting involved with the many events on offer throughout the year and also hope that we can offer some opportunities for staff to come and visit us here at NLCS Jeju. CPD Update Issue 8 13 March 2015 !2 FOBISIA Secondary English JAWS !Garden International School, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Garden International School from Kuala Lumpur would like to thank participants from the FOBISIA schools who travelled to join us for our English JAWS from 16th -17th January. It was a real pleasure to work with such a highly capable, motivated and enthusiastic group of forty other staff from across Asia - some of whom made the journey from as far away as Kathmandu, Manila and !Beijing. ! Across the conference we saw a range of first rate and insightful presentations that really highlighted the outstanding quality of educational opportunities being offered by Literature teachers in international schools in the region. We addressed a range of teaching and learning strategies !covering some of the following areas: ! • Empowering students through assessment for learning and improved marking strategies! • Leveraging technology to improve progression and attainment! • A structuralist approach to narrative sequencing! • Strategies for engaging students in literary analysis! • The challenge of functional skills provision! • Meta-cognition: Making thinking visible! • Questioning! • Authentic/Real world learning within and beyond the English classroom! • Key Stage 5 Literature and Flipped Learning! • Personalised learning and innovative English learning spaces! !• Cross curricular links in English! Of particular note across the conference was a shared ethos that really did put the student experience at the centre of teaching and learning. For many of our visiting teachers and GIS staff alike, AFL has become about empowering students, technology has become about giving students increased ownership of their learning and lesson planning has become about enabling students to be !more responsible for their own progression.! Evaluation and feedback has highlighted amongst all participants a real appreciation for not only the high standards of the sessions but also the general atmosphere of collaboration, enthusiasm and productivity that prevailed. A huge thank you goes out to all our attendees; their willingness to engage in a process of such rigorous, innovative and detailed subject specific professional development is undoubtedly ensuring Asian British International schools continue to provide some of !the best educational opportunities available. ! !A huge well done to all and we look forward to seeing you again soon. ! Sudha Nair, Professional Development Manager! Garden International School, Kuala Lumpur! CPD Update Issue 8 13 March 2015 !3 KS2 & KS 3 SCIENCE JAWS Jerudong International School, Brunei. ! During a relaxed but highly productive two-day Science JAWS event at Jerudong International School, some 20 or so KS2 and KS3 teachers shared their good practice, assessment ethos, differentiation ideas, meaningful enquiry-based teaching strategies and !engaging lesson starter ideas. ! Within KS2 groups, discussions focussed on the effective integration of real life enquiry- based learning and cross-curricular links, whilst a very interesting KS3 discussion focussed on effective IGCSE preparation. As a collective group, we had tremendous fun experiencing engaging lesson ideas from the students' perspectives, and spent lots of time in outside spaces trialling each other's ideas for the delivery of both scientific content and skill. There were sessions covering everything from CSI role play investigations to team-building methods of teaching science, from philosophical starter ideas to artistic ones, and from !online assessment to provision for the Gifted and Talented students in our classes.! All those attending the JAWS event were highly motivated and enthusiastic about improving the teaching and learning of science, and for this reason, the sessions were challenging, constructive, humorous and thought-provoking. Everyone left with ideas, questions, new !strategies to use in the classroom and a network of support in all corners of South East Asia.! ! ! ! ! Susan Blomley, Middle Years Science Co-ordinator! Jerudong International School, Brunei" CPD Update Issue 8 13 March 2015 !4 ! ARE OUR SCHOOLS PROVIDING WHAT OUR CHILDREN, STAFF AND COMMUNITIES TRULY NEED FOR SUCCESS AND FULFILMENT IN THIS FAST PACED WORLD? SET ON BEAUTIFUL PHUKET, THE CONFERENCE PROGRAMME WILL BALANCE HIGH QUALITY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WITH !INFORMAL NETWORKING AND SOCIAL OPPORTUNITIES - NOT TO BE MISSED! Inaugural Teachers Conference highlighting Technology, Career Advancement, Global Issues & JAWS ! 17th - 18th October 2015 There will be a range of workshops on these themes during the two day conference and the opportunity to join pre-conference workshops at the British International School, Phuket, on the following: Boarding - Best Practice, !The International Award, Circus Skills Within the PE Curriculum and How to Run Great Field Trips !Keynote Speaker: Crossroads Foundation, Hong Kong (crossroads.org.hk) dedicated to ‘connecting people in a broken world’, by !acting as a crossroads for those who need help and those who can help ! !Be a Workshop Leader? If you would like to lead a workshop or discussion on one of our Conference Themes, please contact Tania !Donoghue <[email protected]> Keep the date free! More information to follow. CPD Update Issue 8 13 March 2015 !5 Early Years JAWS British International School, Phuket, Thailand. ! Twenty-six participants from a variety of schools, including schools in Thailand, Malaysia and China, joined the October 16 and 17, 2014 Early Years JAWS at the British International !School, Phuket (BISP).! The JAWS opened with a warm welcome from the Headmaster, Mr Neil Richards, and then a tour of the school. The early years has undergone major restructuring over the recent summer holiday break, to accommodate more effective ‘free flow’ and child centred learning opportunities. Participants were enthusiastic about the extensive indoor and outdoor facilities and the degree of planning and organization that sits behind an effective environment.! ! The BISP team then told the early years learning story. This retelling was set against the whole school learning values and learning skills continuum. BISP staff shared their planning processes, reporting procedures, observation processes, use of Blogs and tracking of learning with participants and used this as a springboard for sharing. BISP is committed to personalization and connection of learning, with high expectations in a supportive learning environment and development of expert learners. Recent developments include planning for individual children in partnership with parents and reporting through individual blogs. Participants contrasted the BISP approach with their own, discussing !relative merits and challenges.!