1145 Henry Angus 254 Finding the right fit

Pauline O'Brien, director of educational recruitment services

Al Scott, school support & evaluation officer

Finding the Right Fit

CIS (council of international schools) community of educators

690 schools, 527 universities and colleges, representing 111 countries

Quality schools internationally

Vision:

To inspire the development of global citizens through high quality international education: connecting ideas, cultures and educators from every corner of the world

Edu recruitment services

International university admissions & guidance services

School support & evaluation services

Promoting the IB education certificate cohort to meet international standards

Provide services, language learning, operational systems

Why it is a good experience to work internationally

Collaborative teaching environment

Attractive Salary and benefits

Professional growth

Global travel opportunities

Curricular and technology resources

School as a community center

Multi-national students

Profile of a successful international educator

Demonstrated success

Language acquisition training

Differentiated instruction

Collaborative teaching style and methodology

Integrating technology into instruction

Skills offered outside the classroom

Ability to adapt new environment

Recruitment starts in October

Peak: December to February

Year around activity

Use of online interviews to fill positions

Recruiting fairs still fill 50% of teaching vacacies

Recruit strategies

Value-added to school community as international schools tend to be isolated communities

Technology around curriculum and community

Adapt new environment

Education philosophy

Leadership

Enthusiasm and confidence

Languages

Communication

Collaboration

Experience

School atmosphere

Community

Salary and benefits, compensation

Career growth plan, promotion opportunities

School mission and programme,

School website

Research country and community

    Cultural and political

    Environment and security

Misconceptions identified quickly

Citizenship restriction

Need for certification

Housing for dependent a

VISA restriction (age, nationality, etc)

Training partners

Pets

Tax situation

Www.cois.org

CV

Motivational statement

Philosophy statement

Certificate

Three referneces (current)

Collegial Anglo Colombiano: www. anglocolombiano.co

Amsterdam international community school: aics.espritscholen.nl

Raffles international school Dubai: www.rafflesis.com

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Digital/online/Internet literacy

Critical consumer of Internet-based information

ELL website

Newsela: exchange big/tough words to simple words so that students can understand

Wiki has a Basic English feature that change hard words to simple words

1107 20+ apps

Bitly: shorten rul addresses

Plan board: teacher app for teachers to plan daily schedules

Remind/celly: send msg to students' cellphones using PC (try not to identify students)

Screenleap: run a small program on teacher's PC and share it to students' screens (good for distance class)

Classdojo: good for group work?

Edpuzzle: flip learning: use videos found online, pause the video and ask questions to students

Instagrok: tells all the related definitions and knowledge about the input words......good search engine

Google cultural institute: collected museums around the world

Pear deck: student response system: using connected devices to check students' understandings

Kahoot.it

Quiziz

Socrative: student response system

Plickers: very powerful and efficient to test students' answers of a multiple-choice question

Quiver: making 2d objects to 3d moving objects

Element 4d: science, maybe math, especially 3d geometry

Google translate

Arloon

Photomath

Augmented reality & creation

Lucid chart: mind mapping flow chart outline 

Thinklink: take a picture and describe it 

Explain everything: ......

Screencast-o-matic

Creation tools

342

Integers operations:

All about examples and actions.

From very easy to hard, let student catch up

Then student stand up and try the same activity

Trust students are good learners and teachers as themselves

Much better than the internet addition I tried in Churchill

Functions and equations

I'm thinking of a number...... (Write x)

What's next? ...... Great amount of waiting time

Whistle when showing the division

Students talking and discussion

Repetitions and emphasizing

Moving around the class

Teacher gestures: match actions, notations, and mathematical expression 

Waiting for students' reply by doing the action......

490/450

Does collecting data in school improve student performances?

Information, quantitative, qualitative

Feedback, reflection, mapping records, measurable, control

Scores, family background, attendance, medical information,

CEM Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring

ALIS 

Ability than achievement

Fluency than knowledge

ALIS test score sample analysis

 

Nov 4-5

I've discussed my first lesson plan with Ms Lin and Ms Knott. Even though Ms Knott will not be my SA (b/s she has had an SFU TC already) and is substituted by Ms Leslie, I will still teach three classes in her class.

Tomorrow I'll teach the mandarin class about lyrics. It is a song in a famous TV episodes in China: 何以笙箫默. 

When a teacher stands in front of the class, all the teacher needs to think about is to communicate with the class. Eye contacts, gestures, ask for confusing, etc, are commonly used as ways of accessment. Also, be strong and be prepared to stop any inappropriate behaviors.

Nov 2-3

On Nov 2 I was in Ms Lin's class. Ms Knott was not there as she only comes on day 2. There is an old style light projector in each classroom and an Epson projector with VGB input port. Normally there are less than 30 students in a class.

Ms Lin teaches mandarin and math. She is kind and friendly. I was invited to a mandarin teaching training on Nov 14. 

On Tuesday Ms. Knott was there and we chatted about my teaching practice in her class. She will give me three lessons to teach: math 9 on multiplying polynomials (in three classes). I like the staff.