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FIS will demonstrate a commitment to leveraging the lessons learned from the pandemic to transform teaching and learning in the contexts of on-campus, hybrid and distance learning. Parents, students, teachers, and administrators will reflect, innovate, problem-solve and seek opportunities to affect positive change in our educational community in response to our collective experience.
FIS will demonstrate a commitment to leveraging the lessons learned from the pandemic to transform teaching and learning in the contexts of on-campus, hybrid and distance learning. Parents, students, teachers, and administrators will reflect, innovate, problem-solve and seek opportunities to affect positive change in our educational community in response to our collective experience.
Action Steps:
Utilize the Education Excellence Task Force to actuate Board level discussion around data, feedback, and other aspects of the FIS experience
Create a more flexible presence requirement to facilitate productive contributions outside of school
Use more flexible forms of parent communications (Zoom meetings and town halls, video communications, recordings of information sessions)
Remain in the momentum of an agile organization by implementing the flexibility in the central admin (Old Main)
Harness the learning from the DLP to improve communication using digital tools
Increase student access to personal advice
Create a guide to inform the FIS response to the pandemic that focuses on improving teaching and learning
Primary school
Primary school
Action Steps:
Use content champions on PS teaching teams to develop coherent weekly plans
Increase the number of short 1-1 tutoring sessions for Learning Support and English Language Acquisition students
Arrange First Steps home visits prior to the start of school, bridging the home-school experience
Offer information sessions to parents on supporting distance learning in early childhood
Enhance the DLP experience through developmentally appropriate schedule and learning engagements
Use a range of communication options with parents including screencasts, video conferencing, and recorded information sessions
Enhance children's social-emotional integration through the maintenance of small learning cohorts at the start of the school year
Elementary School
Elementary School
Action Steps:
Use content champions on ES teaching teams to develop coherent weekly plans
Design continuous learning opportunities, using Google sites to house skills practice and specific unit engagements for students who need to learn at home due to COVID-19 regulations
Develop fully articulated plans for students who are new to FIS and are in quarantine
Develop fully articulated plans for students who are quarantined during the school year
Design a new schedule that is more individualized for our language learners
Upper School
Upper School
Action Steps:
Reimagine the timetable to include learning outside of 8:00-15:00 time
Incorporate elements of the DLP/blended models, e.g. study hall or DLP as an on-site option
Develop specialization of DLP teaching and learning
Hire an E-learning coach
Become more flexible in learning time and space
Assess and report on specific ATLs
Review the curriculum that supports student development of ATLs
FIS Wiesbaden Campus
FIS Wiesbaden Campus
Action Steps:
Use a wider range of communication options with parents including screencasts, video conferencing, and recorded information sessions for teacher and school to parent communication
Provide more regular (biweekly) updates from school on what's happening, via the All FISW Power School Site
Continue the series of Town Hall Zoom Meetings for parents in the evenings
Provide more 1 on 1 instruction for Learning Support and English Language Acquisition
Provide ongoing continuous access to e-reading with levelled text at home
Design continuous learning opportunities for students who are at home due to 'extra cautious' illness symptoms, using Google sites
Develop pre-planned and fully articulated plans for students who are new to FIS and are in quarantine
Develop pre-planned and fully articulated plans for students who may be quarantined during the school year
Provide time sensitive age specific information sessions to parents on supporting distance learning
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