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English GD
Todays Agenda

1. GD Targets
2. Health & Safety
3. Curriculum
4. Reporting & Assessing
5. Planning GD lessons
6. Review 2017 End of Year Reflection
7. PD Options
8. Lab Teachers Role vs Your Role
9. Housekeeping
10. Who are our students? How can we inspire them?
PLEASE Click the Link Below and ADD your GD teaching times

GD Teaching Times
 Learn Everything

Expand Knowledge

Open Minds

Knowledge of World

Critical Thinking

What is the purpose of teaching GD? ISF Teachers Responses

 Process

Creativity

Critical Thinking Skills

Deep Understanding of
How the World Works

Independent

Functioning

What do you expect students to leave GD Primary with? ISF Teachers Responses
 GD Teaching Target
Students receive safe, inquiry driven units and lessons
that strengthen students scientific and engineering
knowledge and practices.

GD Learning Target
Students leave with, an understanding of what
scientists and engineers do, knowledge of how the
world works, the skills to critically analyse new
information and the creative means to solve problems.
English Guided Expectations
GD Health & Safety Folder
 Teachers
All GD Teachers = Lab safety training

Safety =
Risk Assessment class activities
Field Trip (visit / planning)

Students
All students = lessons on Science
Expectations with Mr. Novak

Eventually it will include lab safety

ISF Health & Safety Policy- Draft Field Trip Process

Quiz Time!
ISF GD Health & Safety Policy
Field Trips
GD Revised Curriculum

How was it revised and aligned? (2017 PPT)

What does each section mean? GD Curriculum Unpacked (2017 PPT)

What are each of the Grades Units? Curriculum Maps

G3 Life: Plants & Animals 1 G4 Life: Ecosystems
G3 Life: Plants & Animals 2 G4 Physical: Matter & Heat
G3 Physical: Forces & Motion G4 Physical: Sound & Light
G3 Physical: Energy G4 Physical: Electricity & Magnetism

G5 Life: Impacts to Ecosystems G5 Physical: Forces in Motion

G5 Life: Cells to Systems G5 Physical: Matter
 Reports 2017-18

Knowledge & Understanding

Skills- Science & Engineering Practices
Commitment to Learning
Science & Engineering Video
Bingo!
Science & Engineering Practices Refresher
Assessment 2017-18 is CIS/WASC Goal

Create assessments where students

APPLY their learning
Assessing both Knowledge and Skills
Allow for differentiation of 1-7 scale

Grade Levels GD Rubrics here

(How to make a GD Rubric. VoiceTread Link)

Link Grade Level Assessments here - Other Staff will be viewing them
Planning
Remember to plan with the
Enduring Understanding (exit)
in mind
What will students come out of
the unit understanding?
When teaching the Practices
Helpful / Not Helpful by teachers
Choices of Planners
- ISF Planner
- Weekly Overview
- Other
As long as I can view
your lesson plans it
doesnt matter
Lesson Plans
English GD lessons are taught using
7E Inquiry Cycle

7E Cycle Discussed

5E Cycle Explained
5E Explained In Detail Further
ISF Engineering Cycle
2016-17
Reflection
Survey Results
Most said, Assessment !!! & Local links to Hong Kong
Training on Science & Engineering Practices- Everyone was different

SO, to differentiate you choose a partner to team up with you will teach you
theirs, while you teach them your!
Staff PD 2017-18

1. Mentoring Partnerships
What science practice can a team member teach you?
What can you teach them? Email me your partner
Make a date chat and to observe each other.

2. Hong Kong International School

Sept 24-25th Science & Engineering Practices

3. Lab Guy & Secondary Teachers Upskilling Opportunities

4. Online Self-Initiatives or GD Site or Online NGSS Webinars

Lab Teacher Your Role
Responsibilities Join in Teaching
Support classroom management
Assess students in/after class
Teach GD Expectations
Feedback during team meetings
Support GD Teaching & Learning Provide space for labs
Showcase 7E inquiry lessons
Collaborate with teams at meetings
Help set up/clean up
Upskill teachers
Provide new ideas/activities
Order materials for lessons/units
Teach health & safety procedures
Support teams on field trips/ 5D time
2017-18

Housekeeping
GD Textbooks

Should receive them in first library

lesson- 2 = Physics & Biology Other Texts
Might not be enough for each child

Have children check them out in their

names- safer.
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GD Teaching Times
GD Cabinet Grade 5 Cabinet List
Resources Grade 4 Cabinet List
Everyone gets a KEY Grade 3 Cabinet List
Inventory at Start and End of year
Take 2 mins to open
Look after what we have!
them today :)
Introduce items with boundaries
New Orders add HERE
Put things back neatly
2-3 weeks for local items
Items take time to order and cost money!!! 6-12 months for overseas items
GD Circular Updates Each Team
Write a GD Blurb
*NEW* Every 2 weeks
Add to Gdoc
Email or attach photo
GD Curricula Updates Shuyan Update Example
Who are we teaching?
G4/G5 STEM Got Ideas?
Competition Want to make it fun!

Sky's the limit

Join the party :)

 To Do List

1. Read the GD Health & Safety Docs

2. Add your GD times to Calendar
3. Take a look in the GD Cabinets TODAY!
4. GD Blurb for Circular- take turns- Choose who is going first ?
5. Decide who will add assessments used for reporting to the Gdoc
6. Make a date with your new learning partner- Science & E Practices
7. Decide if you want to be involved in creating the STEM competition
8. Choose 2017-18 GD Target and sign up for PD

Please check GD Site for more information and email me with questions.
Questions?