Here's a diary of the events that have taken place
2012
2011
December 13
Testing of teleconference between Loyola - Santa Laurensia teachers
November 2
We attended an all day Professional Learning session to plan the Loyola end of the project today.
October 3 Santa Laurensia School Jakarta
Today we had our first big meeting with all the teacher involved in our project.
Ric thanked Wayan, Julie, Widy and the other teachers for welcoming us to Jakarta and their hospitality. We then discussed aspects of the project. We discussed;
Aims;
Intercultural understanding
Content for each subject
Technology used
Target students
Numbers
Year levels
Groups
When
The project should be conducted in 2 to 4 weeks of class time. This is between 6 and 12 hours at Loyola.
The dates for the project are April 23 - 18 May 2012.
Individual partner teachers should workout the best time for their groups
Teacher groupings
Art/History - Sharon and Bambang
Humanities - Lauren and Sunu
English - Emily and Josephine, Julianne and Josephine
Indonesian - Louise and Tri
Teachers then went into their pairs and commenced discussion about the projects they would do.
September 26 - October 7
Loyola iDeas team visit Indonesia for visit to Santa Laurensia school.
August 31
Loyola Yr 7 Sustainability and Intercultural Day. Our team put on an ICU activity for our year 7s. It was our first test in developing an ICU activity.
You can see the activity written up here.
August 24
PL day for Loyola iDeas members discussed ICU constructs with guest Jessica Walton from Melbourne Uni
August 17
Ric and Julianne went to another DEECD inservice to learn about ICU standpoints and constructs. We heard from ACARA on how they are progressing with ICU in the coming Australian National Curriculum
June 6
Ric sent 4 questions to Loyola iDeas teachers for them to answer in relation to their project. The results will be posted shortly.
1 - What are you trying to change?, 2 – How do you plan to achieve it?, 3 – What will students gain?, 4 – What value will you add to system knowledge?
June 15
Ric sent invitations to Indonesian teachers to join the wiki.
Ric posted Loyola's initial ideas for consultation
May 31
Ms Julianne Cummins and Ms Sharon Stafford, Yr 9 students; Xavier O’Farrel, Emilia Sterjova and Amna Boekye to attend masterclass at MCG with Professor Yong Zhao
May 18 8:30 - 4:00pm
Ric to attend the second information session for the Field Trial
May 13 1:45 - 4:00pm (lunch provided)
Loyola group to meet in the Boardroom to discuss the project and intercultural education.
See documents in 'Discussion Documents' relating to this meeting.
April 12
Ric sent the first invitation to Julie to join the wiki.
April 6 8:30 - 4:00pm
Ric attended an information session for the DEECD Field Trial for Intercultural Understanding to learn about how to start a 'change team' in the school and how to manage them.
March 31
Ric began the Wiki site 'Ideasindaus' to log the project.
February 11 - 19
Santa Laurensia school visit to Loyola College. We met and began discusions about how we could create an international curriculum project.
What we've done/need to do
Here's a diary of the events that have taken place
2012
2011
December 13
Testing of teleconference between Loyola - Santa Laurensia teachersNovember 2
We attended an all day Professional Learning session to plan the Loyola end of the project today.October 3 Santa Laurensia School Jakarta
Today we had our first big meeting with all the teacher involved in our project.Ric thanked Wayan, Julie, Widy and the other teachers for welcoming us to Jakarta and their hospitality. We then discussed aspects of the project. We discussed;
Aims;
Target students
When
Teacher groupings
Art/History - Sharon and BambangHumanities - Lauren and Sunu
English - Emily and Josephine, Julianne and Josephine
Indonesian - Louise and Tri
Teachers then went into their pairs and commenced discussion about the projects they would do.
September 26 - October 7
Loyola iDeas team visit Indonesia for visit to Santa Laurensia school.August 31
Loyola Yr 7 Sustainability and Intercultural Day. Our team put on an ICU activity for our year 7s. It was our first test in developing an ICU activity.
You can see the activity written up here.
August 24
PL day for Loyola iDeas members discussed ICU constructs with guest Jessica Walton from Melbourne UniAugust 17
Ric and Julianne went to another DEECD inservice to learn about ICU standpoints and constructs. We heard from ACARA on how they are progressing with ICU in the coming Australian National CurriculumJune 6
Ric sent 4 questions to Loyola iDeas teachers for them to answer in relation to their project. The results will be posted shortly.
1 - What are you trying to change?, 2 – How do you plan to achieve it?, 3 – What will students gain?, 4 – What value will you add to system knowledge?
June 15
Ric sent invitations to Indonesian teachers to join the wiki.Ric posted Loyola's initial ideas for consultation
May 31
Ms Julianne Cummins and Ms Sharon Stafford, Yr 9 students; Xavier O’Farrel, Emilia Sterjova and Amna Boekye to attend masterclass at MCG with Professor Yong Zhao
May 18 8:30 - 4:00pm
Ric to attend the second information session for the Field Trial
May 13 1:45 - 4:00pm (lunch provided)
Loyola group to meet in the Boardroom to discuss the project and intercultural education.
See documents in 'Discussion Documents' relating to this meeting.
April 12
Ric sent the first invitation to Julie to join the wiki.
April 6 8:30 - 4:00pm
Ric attended an information session for the DEECD Field Trial for Intercultural Understanding to learn about how to start a 'change team' in the school and how to manage them.
March 31
Ric began the Wiki site 'Ideasindaus' to log the project.February 11 - 19
Santa Laurensia school visit to Loyola College. We met and began discusions about how we could create an international curriculum project.and