Last week we had an excursion to Kaliandra for our leadership camp. Students have learnt how to lead themselves and work together with their friends. It was a great time being with students for 3 days and 2 nights! Continue reading
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What does it means to be literate?
IB Dunia Conference 2012 (Sekolah Pelita Harapan, November 24th, 2012) Tantri Almira Wardhani and Daniel Weaver Synopsis The modern world has truly forced educators to redefine what it means exactly to be literate as there are new forms of literacy evolving constantly. This reality is worth exploration. The workshop is dedicated to a discussion and … Continue reading
Anagram is SUPER FUN! Check this out!
An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once; for example orchestra can be rearranged into carthorse. I found out that playing anagram is super FUN! I decided to use this game for my classroom vocabulary review … Continue reading
Comparing two different cultures: Teeth Sharpening VS Teeth Filing
WALT: Explore different kinds of rituals from different cultures in Indonesia WILF: Students are able to: Know that each culture has their own ways of expressing their beliefs and values Use the thinking hats to organize their thinking Be open minded and tolerant accepting uniqueness and differences Language Focus: Rituals, Traditions, cultures, religion, beliefs, chanting, sacred, … Continue reading
Learning Bahasa Indonesia: Belajar Membuat Pantun
Siswa membuat pantun. Students write a pantun, a poetic form of Malay writing. Kriteria: Mengidentifikasi ciri-ciri pantun Memahami isi pantun Mengaplikasikan kaidah dalam pantun Here is the sample of some students work in making “pantun”. Their poems were presented during our fortnight assembly last few days. Continue reading
Teaching Idea: Watching some Videos of Cahyo Alkantana’s Expeditions
In the last unit of EXPLORATION, one of the most engaging teaching journey is when I introduced my students to Cahyo Alkantana, the inspiring Indonesian modern explorer who is a photographer and contributor of National Geographic, cave and diving instructor. We got connected through facebook and in his busy day he got a chance to … Continue reading
Using Weebly for Students’ Portfolio
My PYP 5 students are working on building their own websites in the weebly. It is very great to know they are very enthusiastic and capable in designing and working on their website. At the beginning of the lesson, I just gave them a very quick introduction of how to use weebly but then look … Continue reading
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5 Aspects to be considered when giving feedback on student’s writing
Giving feedback in students’ writing is essential so that students can produce better writing. Here are 5 aspects of a student’s writing: Task achievement. content? Appropriacy. Is the style appropriate? Does it have contractions? Is it too formal or informal? forms of address? would it offend the reader? Organization. Does it have good paragraphing? punctuation? capital letters? … Continue reading
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10 ways to support your students language learning
When supporting language, pay attention to…. what students must know in understanding the content look through the materials you plan to present. what language content are there? make sure you use english as much as you can , but listen to students mis translating what you say make sure your students communicating with thinking. speak … Continue reading
Using “Hamburger Writing Organizer” to organize ideas
WALT: To write an article about challenges faced and strategies used to deal with Puberty Task: You are a journalist who publishes your articles in the online websites. Your job is to write an article in a teen magazine about puberty and its changes, the challenges faced and strategies used to best deal with those … Continue reading
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Planning for learning…
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Teaching Angle: The Angles Family
I found this worked very well in my classroom to teach my students types and characteristics of angle! Check this out! Continue reading
PYP 5 Leadership Journey
This is the video of my students learning about Leadership. It is always great to learn together with students because sometimes they are the ones who inspire us as teachers. Courtesy: content by almiratantri, song by David Cook -Time of your life Continue reading
Making an Essential Agreement in Puberty Unit: PYP 5
In the current unit my students are inquiring into Puberty and some changes happen during Puberty. They are finding out information about some changes that happen during puberty and strategies to deal best with those changes. This unit is a quite challenge unit for both me as a teacher and my students. So, my class make … Continue reading
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