Important announcements

Reminder

Please remember that a session of our February Professional Development Workshops will be devoted to your best practices. As you start to wrap up the year, please think of possible material you'd like to share with your colleagues then. If you have any idea you'd like to discuss with me, please go ahead and do so. This session will be shared with the primary school teachers, some of whom will also present.

Evaluation

This last year term, we agreed that the Global Studies final will be comprehensive (integrative) and will cover the contents for the last term only. In the December finals, Language will be comprehensive, and Global will be divided by the terms, i.e. students will take a final on the contents of the term they failed during the year. In February, both subjects will be comprehensive.

Entrance Exam

Please, make sure you select six (6) sample texts from your literary texts and your thematic units. These packets should be submitted to me by Monday November 23.

Let me as well remind you that when you administer the oral exam, you should ask the prospective student to give you their packet of texs. There will be five (5) texts in it. You should choose ONE of them. Along with this one you should give them ANOTHER one that they will not have seen. I'll pass this one to you - the 'unknown' text will one from the packet you submit to me. I'll run the copies and give it to you before the exam. Should you have any doubts about this, please let me know and I'll be happy to explain it further. Anyway, we are likely to have one more meeting for the annual department evaluation, so we can discuss this further then.