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It was interesting to meet the new teachers.

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Very nice to meet everyone and see the campus!

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Great to start and get set up. Looking forward to using the tools to get into it

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Very interesting to meet all my new friends . Enjoyed introducing one of my new friend .

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Great training and information. Thank you for the tour and trainings for the online resources.

~Nath

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Thanks so much for IT colleagues. It was a great help!
Classin seems very powerful and useful.

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Very happy to meet everyone!

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It was great and very informative. Got to know what the school is about and a feel of what to expect going forward .....Thanks

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It was great meeting everyone today and learning about what we have in front of us to do. It was very useful and a great help .

~Noel David

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Nice to meet everyone! Still got few IT questions to ask.

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It was great seeing the school for the first time and all of the lovely staff members. I can't wait to get there in person! 

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It was great seeing the school for the first time and all of the lovely staff members. I can't wait to get there in person! 

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I wonder if we will be able to get the PPT file from today's orientation sent to our emails later?

-Scott Choi

P.S. - I also like spicy food! :)

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Very nice to meet everyone, and thanks to the nice preparation.

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Very busy and fruitful day. Lots of new things to learn memorize and nice dinner! Looking forward to use the tools to work.

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Thank you so much for IT colleague. It was a really helpful presentation. 😊

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Work together is better! Thanks to IT Department and all. Nice dinner. XOXO

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Today,  Monday, August 9th was my first day of experience having training about the English education system, and online classes were terrific. Even though there was a lot of information presented and discussed; I consider we need some time (especially those totally new teachers) to get it right.
I liked best the way the school is trying diligently to organize all activities not only presential but also online.
I have learned a little more about this platform(classin) to give classes, which is a useful tool for online lessons. It is pretty accessible and convenient. It offers plenty of functions such as allowing students to participate, expressing ideas freely and interacting with them.  It is quite important to have that into consideration since we are living in such a difficult moment, this pandemic, recently.
• I also learned the influence of other people’s perceptions on the contribution to work, more unity increasing the level of teaching as well as the reputation of the school. It is quite positive for all staff.
I felt inspired by many colleagues who are very devoted to providing the best of their teaching experience to the students even sharing knowledge with colleagues. This is priceless. I  also got new ideas from them. I really hope to get acquainted with all and do my best to contribute with fresh ideas to the school, feedback parents, and assist students regularly.

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It's nice to continue to get to know the team. I've identified some colleagues whom I expect will be able to help me continue to improve my teaching practice. First aid training was good. The tour was helpful. Lunch and the snacks were tasty.

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It was a very fruitful day today again. I worked with different colleagues and got to know them more.
I've learned so much about our school today, the information was presented clearly and vividly. The sessions were quite balanced with informative ones and practical ones.
I enjoyed the tour very much afterwords, as I found more restaurants nearby.
~~ Carrie

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Today was much more interesting. Learning about the whole concept of community learning and the group discussions were benefitting. Wish would have more time for the group discussions and sharing findings with the rest of the teachers. The first aid course was good too though I wish the interpreter could have interpreted more of the presentation . But the facilitator did well in demonstrations and they were easy to follow.. It does feel like most presentations are rushed but I guess its because there s a lot to do with little time. Most times its even hard to take down some key notes cause of the fast pace of the presentations but nonetheless the sessions are still very informative. very beneficial for new teachers and I think by the end of the 3rd week we will be ready to start fully our teaching journeys at YWIES...

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Very Good and interesting day today due to the fact that we learnt about concepts, learning communities and discussed about PBL within the classroom. Also Having to complete the CPR training wasn't just interesting very important to all as every second counts when it comes to saving someone’s life.

Noel David Meehan

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Day 2:Today got lot of information shared about the foundation ,staff organisation chart ,learning community  ,daily routine of the school ,overall learned more about the school.First aid training was good .Today I was working with different group ,was able to get to know them .Tour of local area was interesting  .Over all very informative day .Murthy

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Day 2:Today got lot of information shared about the foundation ,staff organisation chart ,learning community  ,daily routine of the school ,overall learned more about the school.First aid training was good .Today I was working with different group ,was able to get to know them .Tour of local area was interesting  .Over all very informative day .Murthy

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It's a good day and we learn more about our school and foundation.Through the group discussion, we can know more about other teachers unique ideas and then we can get the definition of learning community and how can we do it. The first aid training is very useful and the touring is really interesting~thank you everyone~ Anna

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Today was great, the information shared and learned was tremendously valuable.
We learned, discussed the learning community. If only we could have had more time to know other colleagues' points of view, it would have been much better.
Apart from this, my hardworking colleagues and I completed satisfactorily the CPR training, which, personally, I enjoyed a lot. It was extremely informative. I hope we can have more health care training programs in the future -Sarai

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It was interesting to learn about the roots of YWIES and the school's connection to YCIS.

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It was interesting to learn about the roots of YWIES and the school's connection to YCIS.

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It was difficult to hear some of the questions that were asked by teachers without microphones. Maybe the person answering an important question could repeat the question in their answer?

-Scott Choi

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Another great day at YWIES-GZ! Another tasty lunch. Another informative day. Thanks everyone!

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Highlight was the detailed account of the tax system -extremely useful. Heavy on the information today, hit peak effective information internalisation too early :p
- Marc

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Today many of us have many questions about our salaries and contracts. When we asked the speakers a question, they were able to answer them straight away and very to the point ( very profession ). They knew what they were talking about and didn't try to guess or give you the run around... I'm very impressed.

Noel David Meehan

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It was great to meet to various people from the different departments at the school. Their enthusiasm for their roles, and the school community as a whole, is impressive.

And...I can't wait to sample the food at the canteen!

-Trent

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Today, we meet many colleagues from different departments.Thanks to this preparation, we can get the useful information and know how to work in our school😁 anna

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Today was another stupendous day.
Our colleagues have planned, explained diligently some issues associated with salary, Medical Insurance, Chinese Laws, and Sensitive Topics, all were very informative, useful.
- Sarai

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Today was quite useful, in that we got to meet each department.  The Pacific prime speaker was informative. Each head of Dept was a clear speaker.
Complements to the Chef for the curry bowl today.
-Leon

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Today, we met all the school teams, everyone is super nice and friendly, and very glad to join YEWIS.

-Hannah

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It was wonderful to meet the rest of the YWIES staff!

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It was wonderful to meet the rest of the YWIES staff!

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There were a lot of names and faces shown today from the various departments around YWIES. I think it might take me a while to become more familiar with all of the new people, policies, and procedures... #feelingoverwhelmed
-Scott Choi

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Would be great if we have had more time to share the opinions about learning community.

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Too much information😂 😂 I definitely need to print the PPT out as reference in the future.

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Today we met all the supporting school department during their presentation . The first presentation was done by HR . They gave information about HR policy ,leave , tax, banking , overseas transfer and sensitive topic in china.Other presentations was done for medical insurance by MSH, police presentation .School office , account department , Marketing department and support and maintenance department also did their presentation . All the presentations were very informative and well presented .Murthy

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Thanks HR for organizing the one day tour . We enjoyed the tour, came to know more about the local culture and the food . The Lunch and the dinner was good . The trip was well organized .Thanks .Murthy

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Nice lesson co-planning today! We’ll done everyone. Good feedback. Good job modeling good interactive practice. Students were up out of their seats. Formative assessment and ongoing feedback were used well. I successfully printed something. Thanks primary group 1. Thanks everyone!

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Good introduction to YW pedagogy, nice working with others to co-plan but we probably could've used more time to make the lesson more effective.

Observation reflection: Emma and Trent gave a well-structured lesson where the teaching was not only friendly and engaging, but also well-sequenced and delivered. Good use of AV.

- Marc

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It was great to actually plan and teach the lesson with colleagues. The plan time was a bit tight, but we managed to get resources and finish the PPT . Thanks to our group members!

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It was good to listen to everybody's ideas on planning lessons.  It was a good activity co-planning and then delivering a lesson.
-Leon

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Today we spent a lot of time doing co planning and teachers. Getting to know each others teaching style and learning to work together and sharing resources that we have made from other classes. Great day and learnt a lot TEAM

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It's a great time for us to have this pedagogy. Through the co-planning and co-teaching time, we can get more good ideas from other teachers, and make our lesson more interesting and effective. anna

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very interesting activities today! it's nice to work together and learn from each other. lots of detailed strategies i've learned today. thank you.  - emma

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very interesting activities today! it's nice to work together and learn from each other. lots of detailed strategies i've learned today. thank you.  - emma

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Trying to communicate with my group was a challenge. Burned through my phone's battery while connected to WeChat video chat for a couple hours. I hope to be able to collaborate more meaningfully tomorrow.
-Scott Choi

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A big first day... teaching a demonstration lesson! Enjoyed brushing away the holiday cobwebs and watching and learning from my colleagues.

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It was great to cooperate with other teachers for designing lesson plans.  I learnt a lot from this activity. It would be better if we teachers can have more than 10 minutes to comment the lesson and give each other feedbacks immediately.

Melody

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The lesson planning activity and teaching went great. Really learnt a lot … and learnt a lot about our colleagues strengths as well… it was good to see everyone in action. The feedback for our lesson plans and teaching was very helpful as well and made me to reflect more on my teaching and planning and kind of know more what to do and how to go about planning and delivering my lessons…

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I learned quite a lot today. I have enjoyed working with my diligent coworkers. All of us exposed great ideas to plan our teaching lesson. I highly appreciated the feedback given by our colleagues.
I loved using Teams platform technology. It is quite useful, important for our work in the school.
Sarai

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This was a great day of collaboration. I especially appreciated the feedback from SLT at the end. This training was great introduction to the pedagogy and expectations at YWIES.

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My family and I had a great time visiting the old parts of Guangzhou and especially the food. These were some excellent choices for locations. I could definitely see going back to explore more. My oldest son actually asked if we could go back.

~Nath

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There was a lot of great information during the trainings today. I really appreciate the transparency and the amount of detail that the descriptions went into. It was also amazing to learn about the responsibilities of the office staff. I can certainly appreciate their roles more. The information about tax and other financial components was enlightening and it explained some of the procedures in previous schools. The other schools never provided this type of training.

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The session on different levels of training was very informative.

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The session on different levels of training was very informative.

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Today we discussed all about PD forms and what is expected of all teachers to achieve what goals and forms we need to complete before the end of each period. Every useful but a lot of information to take in with a lot of files and templates to download. But once you have them downloaded and saved. The only think is keeping an eye on the dates that they need to be completed by. It will take a few weeks but I sure we will all get there in time. Thanks everyone

Noel David Meehan

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Pedagogy Continued, Appraisals, PD and more!

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Pedagogy Continued, Appraisals, PD and more!

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This training was a lot of information but all useful. It was a good introduction to the processes that we will all be going through. It was also good to be aware of the Global Focus responsibilities. Although it is usually understood that staff will uphold these duties  it's great to have the information documented in one place.

The PD Spreadsheet, looks like a great one-stop-shop for the necessary information of tracking and scheduling PD's. Thank you so much for this resource.

~Nath

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Nice that checklists are provided and everything is communicated in advance. There's some good examples which enables me to begin to think about my own personal goals.
- Marc

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Thanks for the detailed info about PD's and the QFLT framework!

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Thanks for the detailed info about PD's and the QFLT framework!

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One thing I was still unsure of is whether the school is applying for our mandatory Cambridge PD's in October, Feb, April, and June? Or do we need to register ourselves? My understanding is that we only apply on Cambridge for extra courses we are taking outside of the mandatory Monday PD's.
-Scott Choi

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It was good to get some clarification about the PD expectations and policy. It looks like the QFLT documentation is simpler and more accessible than last year. I have a lot of questions, but they’re mostly for the primary team at this point.

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Today, we get more information about the PD training and QFLT documentation.It shows the good examples and let us know how to do it.Still need to learn more, and thanks for the sharing~ anna

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The information on today´s training was very instructive.
Our colleagues have already explained clearly part of it:
Quality Framework for learning and teaching (QFLT),
Global Focus which are indispensable tools that we need to keep in mind while preparing our work.
The information learned lets us reflect on our professional objectives and development. What I like more is that we are collaborating, sharing, and growing up as a team, also as an individual.
Sarai

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It was great to meet our heads of primary today. Both ladies were very informative, and covered a lot of information relating to Primary. The delivery of the CP information was not very effective as it was slow. Too much reading of the slides.

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Today meeting with our head from primary was a lot of info but I guess they are just trying to give us as much info at once just to give you a heads up, but know that it's a lot to take in and we will not remember it now but it will prepare us for the up coming months.

Noel David

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Today we meet with Kevin from primary to discuss all about our lesson planning and how and where to find all the information that we will need right now to get started. Very well explained and at a good pace. Thanks, very helpful

Noel David

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Today was very informative. The primary meeting this morning was outstanding. It was very nice to finally get a feel for what our day-to-day priorities need to be.

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Thanks so much for all the information Nelson presented to us. it was a great help to understand the pastoral care for our students here.

Carrie

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It was a very productive day, I had time to work on the documents in the Sharepoint with my faculty leader and get to know more about what was expected for my teaching work. I also had time to get the textbooks and stationaries ready.

Carrie

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Although there was a very detailed orientation explaining the many facets of the school; I somewhat feel it was too long and in the wrong order. I feel that could be done within one week with less 'lecture-style' information and more of a 'guiding' style towards the specific literature and where to find it.
Regardless of the fact that all important points were covered and it was an opportunity for other new colleagues to meet
and get acquainted with YW systems; perhaps having a better idea of who was doing what (timetabling) would have led to a more productively efficient approach.
From experience, getting to actual grips with the job and the routine is where I learn the most about the schooling but I feel good knowing: what the school is about; what is required of me; and how to work within such a system. Now I'm just waiting to be getting on with the next step.
- Marc

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A great end to this two weeks of orientation. My only advise would be to remind new teachers that this is a lot of info at this time, please remember that we don't expect you to remember it, its just info...... you have between 5 - 6 months. it's a lot, please remind new staff that you don't expect them to remember all stuff..... apart from that, I loved every minute of it. I can't wait to see what else happens... Thanks Kareen, Charlotte, Pornch and everyone else....

Noel David Meehan

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Overall the orientation was informative and gave us a comprehensive picture of what the school is about which I felt is a good way of making new teachers part of the school… the expectations for all the parties of the school were laid out quiet well…

I do feel that the orientation could have included more curriculum based information for example time tables, daily routines, academics, classroom preparations etc … basically the last 3 days of the orientation made more sense to me and I feel that area should have been given more days…

Other than that this has to be one of the best new teacher orientation I have ever attended and the hard work that everyone put into it was evident which I believe gave us a clear idea of the work ethics of the school and that was quite admirable

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It covered a lot of information that had to be covered. I have been through it before so I understand the areas that needed to be covered. Some highlights were the tour and finally getting to meet the Primary leaders.

Suggestions would be to spread out the introduction to the different departments. Also the CP training was not that effective due to it being given online. It could have been given like an Educare course or waited till the CP officer was onsite.

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We were given lots of Info over the past 2 and half weeks. I understand that we had a lot to cover and it will be an on going learning process with I get to do it more hands on.

My only suggestion would be to have spend more time to build lesson plans, reports etc. as this will be something that we will be using from the very first week.

Over all and everyday I'm feeling more confident and comfortable with all the systems and as I said before once I get a change to build them more often, I'm sure I'll feel more confident using them

Thanks all

Noel David Meehan

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Comprehensive and informative