week one first teacher workshop 2013 Reflecting and learning - Interlink philosophy

Week 3 Day 19 . teacher workshop Room C102

Teamwork is power. Isolation is a trap. 

We started today's workshop with a 15 minute reflection. The three questions were:

1- What worked?

2- What surprised you?

3- What would you to do different?

        At the beginning we were all quiet, then Mr. Abdulrahman broke the silence.

Mr. Abdulrahamn talked about how his students are  engaged in mindmapping.Then Mr. Ray talked about students giving short  presentations and coming the next day to practice harder and improve.

 He was surprised his students wanted to work harder and learn new things they were not afraid or shy. Mr. Micha teaches reading and writing  Eta and Theta Level and he talked about his students use of google translate and his efforts to make them use dictionaries and not to copy and paste. 

Then, we discussed the student meeting and how this can enrich students experience and bring the pieces together.

After that teachers were divided into pairs and worked on their weekly planning and classroom projects.

to sum it up. It was a good solid three weeks of class. The teachers are excited. They engaged their students in discovering  and playing with the language, and it seems we have a group of good students who are wanting to learn

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Mr. Ray and Mr.Eyaz discussing and planning next weeks lessons and projects.

Classroom representatives first meeting

Today at 1:00 P.m

We had our first meeting with the classroom representatives at room C102.
 It was a very good start.

Names of students in the meeting

1- Emad Ali Alfatni A103

2- Yonus Abdul hamed flemban B104

3- Abdullah Fasial Alblol A104

4- Saad Radad ALkhamisi   A204


5- Yaha Khaled  Alharazi A103


We fininshed  the meeting at 2:40


Topics were:


1- Sport events and arrangements

2- Final program ceremony

3- Mindmap Contest

4- Technical support team

5- Field trip arrangements

6- Tree day event

7- Photo day arrangements

8- What is their rule ?

9- Why are we working together ( partnership )

Blooms taxonomy classroom poster

Bloom's Taxonomy Classroom Posters - http://pinterest.com/pin/487233253406748823/

The small changes in classroom environment that can improve learning

 

 article from the guardian

Setting the tone: how to personalise your classroom

 

article from stateimpact.npr.org

Classroom Contemplations: Helping Students Find Their Voice

Project-Based Learning: Success Start to Finish

Mindmap of Interlink Philosophy

Ali Assiri Mindmap subject Sky B203 Mr Sami Mr David

Hi everyone!

This mindmap was presented by Ali Assiri on Wednesday. He wanted to submit this mindmap for the mindmap competition. He visited our program blog  and read the post. I asked him to explain the mindmap to check and see if he understood what he wrote, which he did very well. I asked him to develop it more and show it to his teachers for advice. He will come to see me again on Saturday. I really think students can do wanderful things if we encourage , guide, and show them how. We also need to share and document thier work and share so that everybody in the program and outside the program  can see and learn something .

Encourage, engage, be creative.

In The weekly curriculum meeting we discussed the competition and the criteria for best mindmap and we came up with:

1- Readable
2- colorful
3- creative
5- well- organised
6- no spelling mistakes
7- students can use A4 or A3 paper

We also decided that all teachers will vote on the three best mindmaps.

We also decided to have  the best collaborative mindmap by class. Each class will submit one big flipchart sized mindmap. 


We will show-case all the mind maps that were chosen to be displayed in the program and online.

Lead, Collaborate, encourage, engage, create, share.

 We all win.

team work, team work, team work

Mindmaps are very effective tools to enhance students learning.

Mindmaps are compatible with our brain.

Week 15 term 3 G6

Sequence of Activities:

1- Refelctions on last week
2-  Weekly Curricullum reports
3- Mindmapping project and competition and  an event.
4- End of semester ?
- what is working?
- what are the challenges?

Culture Video-Jeddah CTE - YouTube

Culture Video-Jeddah CTE - YouTube