New Staff, New Classes, Our School Is Growing 新老师、新班级，我们的学校不断壮大
This year’s staff features 83 people from 17 countries. Click to read a sampling of what will be new at QAIS from our new staff.
Building & Facility Improvements 学校建筑和设施的改善
At QAIS, we strive to make every aspect of our school better each year. Our school building and facilities have a lot of improvements since last year.
Concept-Based teaching
The following video presents a summary and a few quotes aboutConcept-Based Learning from H. Lynn Erickson’s work. The video is a rief explanations of what a topic is and what a concept is and a few examples of subject area concepts. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8fKU9LZ2kw]
Differentiated Teaching
Below you will find a series of differentiation strategies that I have implemented or learned from former colleagues in previous schools. Keep in mind that these are only some ideas and not THE ONLY strategies one can do. Scaffolding for Struggling Learners ■ Reteaching with a different method: I made sure I had an audio file […]
Teaching Developed in Local and Global Contexts
In IB programmes, learning contexts should be (or should model) authentic world settings, events and circumstances. Contexts for learning are chosen from global contexts to encourage international mindedness and global engagement within the programme. The IB encourages teachers to design units around a range of ideas and issues that are personally, locally, nationally, internationally and globally significant. The image below […]
Teaching based on inquiry
The act of inquiry is the backbone to the learning process: not only does it enable the construction of understandings to be able to stand tall, but it also provides the fortitude for the arms of wondering to open up, and, likewise, is the center of balance for the feet of curiosity, which move forward, […]
Media / Information Literacy + Organization: See Saw
Seesaw is a learning-driven digital portfolio that empowers you of all ages to independently document and share what you are learning at school. Look at See Saw in the Apple store.
Media Literacy: Googledocs and voice
If you are a fan of googledocs, YOUR FINGERS CAN TAKE the rest of the day off, because Google just rolled out the ability to edit with your voice in Google Docs. It’s more than just a straight dictation feature, which was introduced to Google Docs late last year. Now, you can correct and stylize written text with voice […]
The QAIS Inspire Project
What roles will there be: President: The president serves as the face of the event. He or she is expected to know everything about everyone and everything. He or she is to have the skills to communicate, liaise and encourage to people in charge of other departments. He or she will speaks at the end […]
Infinitives, Gerunds and Participles
If you want to learn more about the cases in which we use infinitives (to learn), gerunds (learning) or participles download the following document. It includes explanations in Chinese and English. Gerunds Infinitives Participles Explanation and Exercises
