ERC News

From April 4 to 6, Ms. Reem Sardouk and Ms. Nora Hamzeh from the Elementary School together with Ms. Sana Kaedbey and Ms. Assil Hachem from the Pre-school participated in a PYP regional workshop in Amman, Jordan. The workshop attended by the IC teachers was on Taking Action in the PYP. Teachers exchanged and discussed new ideas regarding Action, a new and different inquiry cycle. They came back enthused by their workshop experience and with a better understanding of the PYP. They plan to share their experiences and information with the faculty members of their corresponding schools.
Apr 30, 2009, 06:17

SPEC

From March 23 – 25, presenters Jack Drury and Cyndi LaPierre from the Antioch Graduate School in New Hampshire joined selected IC teachers for a follow-up session on the SPEC (Student-centered, Problem-based, Experiential and Collaborative learning) approach, initiated and organized by the ERC. They observed teachers using SPEC in their classes and, in further training sessions, introduced more problem solving activities to workshop participants. As with all our SPEC experiences, the days were full of thought, excited conversations and lots of learning for everyone.
Apr 30, 2009, 05:47

Early Childhood Workshops – Playing with Art and Music

The Early Childhood and Lower Elementary Education program (ECE for short) has continued to give top quality workshops to Preschool and Lower Elementary teachers throughout this academic year. The program is coordinated by Elementary classroom instructor and PYP Instructional Leader Lina Mouchantaf in cooperation with the ERC. Saturday, March 28 saw 27 preschool and lower elementary teachers from over 20 public and private schools attending two fun workshops in this program – “Discovering Art” and “Percussion for Fun.” The day turned out to be an enjoyable one for both the presenters and their participants.
Apr 30, 2009, 05:26

A Busy but Informative In-Service Day

Not many students attended classes on Friday, March 27, but the Ras Beirut campus was buzzing with activity as secondary and middle school teachers from both Ras Beirut and Ain Aar gathered to attend a day of In-Service workshops organized by the ERC. As well as a follow-up session for APP and workshop sessions for SPEC, the day was divided into three working sessions and several workshops took place in each session. In Sessions I and II, teachers attended one of 30 different department orientated workshops. They delved into several topics of interest including evaluation of experiments and lab skills in the sciences, creating blogs in almost every subject area, LTA and DELF in the languages, applying the techniques of TICE and exploring simulation in math, to name a few. There were also workshop sessions for the music, IT and PE instructors as well as for the librarians.
Apr 6, 2009, 07:12

Faculty Exchange from the International School of Azerbaijan

From March 4 to March 7, IC Preschools enjoyed hosting two exchange teachers, Ghayani Newns and Rosemarie Andrews from The International School of Azerbaijan (TISA). The visiting teachers spent their time observing at the Preschools on both campuses, Ras Beirut and Ain Aar. The ladies visited classes, explored the facilities on both campuses and had the opportunity to “talk shop’ with their IC colleagues. Interesting conversations began as they compared their school to IC and exchanged information and ideas with teachers.
Apr 6, 2009, 04:41

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