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2025年5月14日

Parent Letter – Fourth Week of Online Learning

Parent Letter – Fourth Week of Online Learning

by BIS / 2020.03.09 Monday / Published in news & event
Message from Academic Principal

Dear Parents:Boston International School hopes that this message finds all of you well as we complete week 4 of our online learning. We are looking forward to week 5 and would like to remind you of the following updates:

• All teachers are closely monitoring emails and will respond to questions within 24 hours (most respond much sooner).
• All teachers now have “office hours” where they are available for student and parent phone calls in order to speak directly and answer questions.
• All teachers are providing feedback to students on their daily work once it is submitted.  This is to let students know how they performed on an assignment as well as areas to improve for future assignments. 
• Students in IGCCE and DP classes, particularly in grades 10 and 12, are busy preparing for the IB Personal Project as well as IGCSE and DP exams.  Teachers are keeping students informed of due dates and other relevant information.  Students and parents who have questions are encouraged to contact their teachers directly.

We have also spotlighted the work of a few of our teachers below and their thoughts about the online learning.  We would invite you to view this as a way to see the preparation and planning that is going into students’ learning.

Finally, we would invite you to review previous notices from the school regarding the continuation of online classes and support as well as preparations being made for the school re-opening.

Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us as you have questions.

In partnership,

Brian Rotunno

Academic Principal

 

Primary Teacher

This week we sent our home learning menu in a new format. The calendar viewgives students a suggested weekly timetable of what to do when. The new easy to follow format simply allows students to simply click on a link which will then open the relevant document. Uploading videos to both YouTube and Youku allow videos to be streamed both inside and outside of China.  Splitting the tasks intoMust Do, Should Do and Can Do sections allows students to prioritise their work.

Each week teachers are coming up with new and innovative ways of interacting with students. Microsoft Teams is proving to be a very valuable platform with which to communicate. Students can read and contribute to whole class discussions, as well as have private group chats with their teacher and other students.

This week in English we explored the story Misery Moo.  Students watched a video of the story being read to them and were able to read along. There were many points throughout the video where students were instructed to pause the video and refer to an accompanying activity sheet where they needed to answer comprehension-based questions related to what they had just read and heard.

We continued exploring Values in our UOI lessons this week. Great ideas start with a question, so students were thinking critically about their core values and creating open ended questions. Students then posted their questions into a discussion thread on Teams and had the opportunity to read, think critically and then reply to questions that other students posted.

Elapsed time was the topic covered in math this week.  Students watched a series of short videos explaining elapsed time and were given strategies for calculating elapsed time. Students then had activities they needed to complete and IXL levels to work on.

It is nice engaging with students individually and in groups over video calls and hearing about what they are doing to stay healthy and active.  It is encouraging to see parents interacting with their children’s home learning.  The quality of work being produced by students is very high and it is interesting to see the large number of students have really embraced their home learning.  Keep up the great work everyone!

 

Secondary Teacher

Entrepreneurship Design

As we have been stuck at home for weeks, we couldn’t go out for hotpot, Sichuan dishes, dessert or just simply gather together with school friends. Our bodies desire good delicious food meanwhile our hearts need some soul food too. We would like to do something different at this special time. Our Entrepreneurship Design class is focusing on the project of corporate social responsibility. We care for our school friends’ mental well-being so much. If you receive a personalized greeting card from a secret friend don’t be surprised, just pamper yourself with the caring and love.

Business Class

Meanwhile, with the G11 business students, we are studying the unit of Finance and Accounts. Also, we are researching business actions related to CUEGIS (change, culture, ethics, innovation and strategy) concepts. If I were them, I would feel overwhelmed to process so much information and master it in a short time. Speaking of the concepts ‘Change’ and ‘Strategy’, I have been thinking as a teacher or facilitator and asking myself, do I try my best to ‘change’ my teaching ‘strategy’ as the external environment changes? The answer is not quite, I possibly have the best information and presentation (in my opinion) but is it actually ‘student-friendly’?

Well sometimes yes and sometimes no. I have started my self-learning from this week as I want to make it better for the students. To be honest, learning is painful sometimes (finally I speak the truth) because it crosses my comfort zone of teaching (PPT, videos, live learning). Hours were spent on ‘building a new world’ by Minecraft Education, and I still haven’t quite got it yet. The students probably will do a better job than me. Well, for all my students to know, I’m going to take an online course too. We are in the same boat now.

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