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Professional Development at MKIS

Professional Development at MKIS. 2010-2012. Overview of Our PD Offerings. Professional Learning at Mont Kiara International School [MKIS] is an artfully designed process with a focus on student learning and rooted in a school climate of collaboration and professional enquiry.

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Professional Development at MKIS

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  1. Professional Development at MKIS 2010-2012

  2. Overview of Our PD Offerings Professional Learning at Mont Kiara International School [MKIS] is an artfully designed process with a focus on student learning and rooted in a school climate of collaboration and professional enquiry. As outlined in our mission statement, ESLRs, and policy documents, MKIS faculty are expert practitioners who are expected to continuously engage in a professional learning community in order to effectively guide each student to reach his/her potential. Consistent with our mission statement and ESLRs, the Professional Learning Program provides strategies and opportunities that build both individual and collective professional growth.

  3. 3 Focus Areas for 2010-2012 • Focus # 1: • WASC: Self-Study: Focus and Home Group Specific Tasks • There are 2 full-day WASC sessions scheduled (January 31 and February 1st). • Our next WASC Specific Home Group session is scheduled for December 8th.

  4. PD Focus # 2 • IT: Integration Strategies • Overall IT PD Goal:  To provide our educators with enriching PD sessions that enable them to integrate MKIS resources and adopted standards and benchmarks into their regular classroom routine. Aug-Sept:  PD sessions are geared towards learning about current MKIS IT resources. • Oct-Dec:  PD Sessions are designed for teachers to move beyond the basics.  As well as Wednesday sessions, brown bag sessions will be on offer for teachers who want to learn even more ways they can incorporate our IT platforms into their classroom routines. • Jan-June:  IT integration:  Choices of Workshops will move beyond known IT platforms. 

  5. PD Focus # 3 • Assessment • Brief Overview of Learning Communities: • Professional Learning Communities Faculty learning communities are different from but in many ways like most action learning sets in that they both are “a continuous process of learning and reflection, supported by colleagues, with an intention of getting things done” (McGill & Beaty, 2001, p. 11). McGill, I., & Beaty, L. Action Learning. Sterling, VA: Stylus, 2001.

  6. Assessment PD Continued • Overall PD Goal: To provide our educators with enriching PD sessions that are research based, enhance teachers’ content and pedagogical knowledge, cover content/strategies in depth, and provide a forum for collegial and collaborative exchange. • Assessment PD Focus: To create learning communities at MKIS that will assess, develop, and enhance our current school-wide assessment practices and improve our student outcomes.

  7. Professional Learning: Notable Presenters • Ruth E. Van Reken will be here on March 2nd, from 3-5 PM to present information to the staff about Third Culture Kids • Possible Presenters: • Brain Based Learning (HS-ES) • Literacy Coaching (ES) • Screening of the documentary "Race to Nowhere".

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