This document outlines a plan for the primary department of Sekolah Global Indo-Asia for the 2015-2016 school year. The main goals are teamwork, transparency, and building opportunities. Regarding teamwork, the importance of collaboration between teachers, students, and parents is discussed. Transparency involves openness, communication, and accountability. Building opportunities includes providing professional development for teachers to improve their skills. The implications for leadership include setting high standards, managing instructional programs, and supervising teachers to ensure curriculum and student needs are met in line with the school's mission and values.

1. PLAN FOR PRIMARY DEPARTMENT
SEKOLAH GLOBAL INDO-ASIA
SY 2015-2016
Edina Araneta-Sarenas
May 03, 2015

2. Main Goals
 Team Work
 Transparency
 Building Opportunities

3. TEAM WORK

4. TRANSPARENCY

5. BUILDING
OPPORTUNITIES

6. Welcome

7. • The relevance of Team
Work1
• How to keep up with
Transparency2
• Opening the doors for
opportunities3
My Plan

8. Learning Objectives
• Making Informed
Decisions
• Planning to make
things better
• Sustenance and
Service

9. THE RELEVANCE OF
TEAMWORK

10. Why is teamwork important
in the classroom? (1)
Teamwork encourages collaborative communication.
For students to achieve a
comprehensive, well-rounded
education, integrated
teamwork on several fronts is
vital. Teamwork is necessary
between students, between
students and teachers, and
among parents and educators.
The more teamwork
fundamentals exhibited, the
more opportunity exists for
students to learn the vital skills
of compromise and
collaboration.
Typically, each adult in the classroom is tasked with
carrying out specific duties and responsibilities in a
collaborative manner.
In many academic settings, teachers in different
departments team up to ensure a continuity of
instruction for students. A fifth grade science teacher
focused on scientific measurements and calculations
might collaborate with a fifth grade math teacher who
teaches volume and measurements. As a team, the
teachers create a crossover educational experience in
which students of both educators have the opportunity
to see how statistical information can be used in the
different disciplines.

11. Why is teamwork important
in the classroom? (2)
Team or group work in a classroom teaches students the
fundamental skills associated with working as a collective unit
toward a common goal. This type of teamwork introduces a variety
of skills that will be valuable for students later in the workforce,
such as communication, compromise and collective effort. In any
type of group work, students must agree about who will handle
various components of a project and work in tandem using one
another’s strengths to accomplish assigned tasks. This teaches time
management, resource allocation and communication skills.

12. Relevance of Teamwork
The technology learning curve
New
Employee
1 yr 2 yr 3 yr

13. Who’s Who
Principal + Kepala Sekolah Head of School with Other Heads
PYP Coordinator + Lead Teachers Guidance Counselor
Grade Level Homeroom Teachers ESL Teacher
Single Subject Teachers Parent Organization
Librarian, IT Support, Teacher
Assistants Finance and Marketing Team
Secretary, Nurse, Security Community Resources

14. Time Spent
ProjectsWorkedOn
Get Familiar
Achieve
Mastery
Working Toward Mastery
Get
Experienced

15. Teamwork Implications
• The Primary Principal serves as the educational leader,
responsible for managing the policies, regulations, and
procedures to ensure that all students are supervised in a
safe and pleasant learning environment that meets the
approved curricula and mission of the school.
• Achieving academic excellence requires that the Primary
Principal to work collaboratively, to direct and nurture all
members of the school staff hired by the Management and
to communicate effectively with parents.
• Inherent in the position are the responsibilities to provide
instructional leadership for the teachers and staff including
scheduling, curriculum planning and development, review
and implementation, extracurricular activities, professional
development, personnel management, emergency
procedures, and facility operations.

16. Teamwork Implications
Benefits of Teamwork
• Define our challenges easily
– Technological as well as personal
• Set realistic expectation
– Mastery is not achieved overnight
• Keep an eye on the goals
– Mentorship programs

17. HOW TO KEEP UP WITH
TRANSPARENCY

18. What is transparency?
Wikipedia – one of the world’s great examples of
transparent collective behaviour – states that
“transparency”, as it pertains to behaviour implies
openness, communication, and accountability. It is
a metaphorical extension of the meaning a
“transparent” object is one that can be seen
through. Transparent procedures include open
meetings, financial disclosure statements, freedom
of information legislation, budgetary review,
audits, etc.

19. What is transparency?
• With regard to research: Scholarly research in any academic
discipline may also be labelled as (partly) transparent (or open
research) if some or all relevant aspects of the research are open in
the sense of open source, open access and open data, thereby
facilitating social recognition and accountability of the scholars
who did the research and replication by others interested in the
matters addressed by it.
• With regard to management there emerges the concept of radical
transparency: a management method where nearly all decision
making is carried out publicly. All draft documents, all arguments
for and against a proposal, the decisions about the decision
making process itself, and all final decisions, are made publicly and
remain publicly archived.

20. Three concepts seem to dominate the definitions: openness,
ongoing communication, and public accountability.
• So what does openness imply? It seems to evoke attitudes as well as behaviours – without
obstruction or concealment, accessible, not secret. Openness also seems to evoke willingness or
readiness to receive – comment, support, aid, and criticism, anything that can help build or align
for better results.
• Ongoing communication implies a relationship or set of relationships. Good relationships are built
on trust, mutual benefit, and reciprocity. As stated in another post: Communication is a process
whereby meaning is defined and shared between living organisms. Communication requires a
sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or
aware of the sender’s intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication
can occur across vast distances in time and space. Communication requires that the
communicating parties share an area of communicative commonality. The communication
process is complete once the receiver has understood the sender.
• Public Accountability: accountable to the public? What do we mean by accounting to the
public? Accountability is the acknowledgment and assumption of responsibility for actions,
products, decisions, and policies including the administration, governance, and implementation
within the scope of the role or employment position and encompassing the obligation to report,
explain and be answerable for resulting consequences.

21. Note to ALL
• Transparency also means that care will be taken
to share the methods of producing guidelines as
well as the administration and processes used in
supporting the production. The general open
behaviour will sometimes bring criticism of
specific issues. But in the long-term, benefits
will likely be derived as criticism is an input in
continual improvement, creation of efficiencies
and innovations in the production of clinical
practice guidelines.

22. Implications to Leadership Team
• The Primary Principal will provide leadership and administration
which will motivate instructional and support personnel to strive
for superior performance so as to provide the best possible
opportunities for student growth and development, both
educationally and personally.
• The Primary Principal reports directly to the Head of School and
are responsible to implement of both international and national
curriculums and instruction initiatives and recommends options to
improve the instructional of school and the academic performance
of students. The Primary Principal supervises closely to the
Homeroom teachers and Specialists to ensure that the SGIA
curriculum and interactions meet the needs of all students in line
with the mission, vision and values of the school.

23. Implications to Principal’s Job Description
 Establish and promote high standards and expectations for all students
and staff for academic performance and responsibility for behavior.
 Manage, evaluate and supervise effective and clear procedures for the
operation and functioning of the school consistent with the philosophy,
mission, values and goals of the school including instructional programs,
extracurricular activities, discipline systems to ensure a safe and orderly
climate, building maintenance, program evaluation, personnel
management, office operations, and emergency procedures.
 Develop and administer the general school routine, and coordinate all
activities within the school.
 Maintain an educational philosophy and school climate which
encourages a cooperative and participating attitude on the part of all
teachers and students.
 Ensure a safe, pleasant and effective educational atmosphere, provides
discipline as necessary and enforces school policy.
 Maintaining a standard of student behavior designed to command
respect and minimize school and classroom interruptions.

24. OPENING DOORS FOR BETTER
OPPORTUNITIES

25. Why build opportunities for teachers?
• Once hired, many teachers are left to sink or
swim. Helping teachers hone their craft has
seldom made it onto the agenda for the past
years. But perhaps we’re finally ready to
focus attention on the far bigger and more
important question of how to attract and
retain the top teachers we want.

26. Building Opportunities
• Affect or recommend changes which will lead to improved administration, supervision
and opportunity for student development.
• Performing all other acts reasonable and necessary to accomplish his/her primary
function as requested by the Board of Management.
• Interacts with students in a constructive manner to encourage each individual to
perform at their highest level.
• Establish the annual master schedule for instructional programs, ensuring sequential
learning experiences for students consistent with the school’s philosophy, vision and
mission statement and also instructional goals.
• Supervise in a fair and consistent manner effective discipline and attendance systems
with high standards, consistent with the philosophy, values, and mission of the school.
• Ensure a safe, orderly environment that encourages students to take responsibility for
behavior and creates high morale among staff and students.
• File all required reports regarding violence, vandalism, attendance and discipline
matters.
• Establish procedures that create and maintain attractive, organized, functional,
healthy, clean,
• and safe facilities, with proper attention to the visual, acoustic and temperature.
• Assume responsibility for the health, safety, and welfare of students, employees and
visitors.
• Develop clearly understood procedures and provide regular drills for emergencies and
disasters.

27. Building Opportunities
• Establish duty roster and procedures for the supervision of students in non-classroom areas
(including before and after school).
• Oversee student after school activities, and lunch time activities.
• Establish procedures for safe storing and integrity of all public and confidential school
• records. Ensure that student records are complete and current.
• Protect confidentiality of records and information gained as part of exercising professional duties
and use discretion in sharing such information within legal confines.
• Ensure teachers are aware of exactly how to keep student records, and that there are hard and
soft copies filed in designated locations.
• Provide and supervise a safe recreation and play period for the students.
• Manages all staff, assigns teachers to classrooms and students to classes.
• Enforce school rules and intervene proactively.
• Meet with parents about discipline issues and document all incidents and meetings.
• Document all misdemeanors, what has been done to remediate, all communication with parents.
• Identify all students in all sections in division who are not performing to standard and fill in at-risk
report.
• Ensure that every teacher in division is providing the highest standard of pastoral care according
to the guidelines of the school.
• Enforce the student uniform dress code, and inform parents if the student is repeatedly not
following the guidelines.
• Ensure the government and school's policies on student records are followed by all teachers in
the timeframe given.
• Organise and delegate responsibilities for producing student events of quality and quantity
• Oversee student after school activities, and lunch time activities.

28. Building Opportunities
• Supervise the instructional programs of the school, evaluating lesson plans and
observing classes (teaching, as duties allow) on a regular basis to encourage the use of
a variety of instructional strategies and materials consistent with research on learning
and child growth and development.
• Establish procedures for evaluation and selection of instructional materials and
equipment, approving all recommendations.
• Ensure all teachers are following the school developed curriculum from IB and
embedded of National curriculum for each grade level.
• Ensure all teachers follow the school's assessment policy, including how and when
they asses, and the management of student portfolios.
• Ensure all teachers complete an inventory (hard and soft copies) and that new
resource are suggested and ordered according to the budget.
• Continually evaluate existing programs and practices, curriculum content, and pilot or
experimental programs.
• Encourage and initiate continued improvement in curriculum and teaching methods,
subject area specialists, and faculty.
• Oversee the development of Curriculum Committee and keep the Board apprised.
• Establish guidelines and expectations for curriculum delivery and provide Professional
• Development on curriculum delivery.
• Coordinate with other principals, and oversee communication and adherence to
regulations and guidelines.
• Educate and oversee the instruction in division to ensure school's standards are being
implemented

29. Building Opportunities
• Responsible in the selection of new teaching and classified personnel,
including interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning,
assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and
disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
• Orient new personnel or teacher assigned to the school.
• Observe, counsel, and motivate professional staff toward performances
to attain the educational goals of the foundation.
• Establish a professional rapport with students and with staff that has
their respect.
• Display the highest ethical and professional behavior and standards
when working with students, parents and school personnel.
• Serve as a role model for students, dressing professionally,
demonstrating the importance and relevance of learning, accepting
responsibility, and demonstrating pride in the education profession.
• Encourage all teachers to do the same.
• Evaluate performance and effectiveness of programs and teachers.
Coordinates in-service training for teacher.
• Use the school approved supervision system to supervise and develop
teachers' skills and provide regular feedback to improve their teaching
skills

30. Resources
• http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/
09/building-better-teachers/375066/
• Making PYP Happen: A Curricular Framework
• MTBA Evaluation Visit Report
• http://www.knowledgemobilization.net/archives/603
• ork.chron.com/rad-
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31. QUESTIONS?