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Don’t Repeat – Compliment!
Ms. Simone Becker
Ms. Leonie Ley-Mitchell
Risk-Taker
Open-minded?
The Beginning…
1985 Enrollment - 51 Students
Growing…
1987 Enrollment - 193 Students
AIS Today
Current Enrollment – 930 Students
Where We Are Now
• With the adoption of the IB in all divisions,
AIS offers a continuum of international
education from K-12.
• The Primary School provides one
challenging curriculum in two languages
embracing the principles of the IBPYP.
• Students spend approximately 50% of
their time in English and 50% in French,
Spanish, or German from 4K to Grade 5.
Monday/English Tuesday/French
8:20 Start of School 8:20
8:20-9:35 Instruction 8:20-9:35
9:35-9:50 Snack 9:35-9:50
9:50-10:05 Recess 9:50-10:05
10:05-11:40 Instruction 10:05-11:40
11:40-12:05 Lunch 11:40-12:05
12:10-12:50 Specials (either 12:10-12:50
PE, Art, Music)
12:50-1:15 Recess 12:50-1:15
1:15-2:40 Instruction 1:15-2:40
2:45 Carpool 2:45
Language Policy
AIS strives to make every student proficient in
two languages. All students will have the
knowledge of and the ability to use two
languages, but not all of them to the same
extent. Students vary in their ability to learn a
second language; some will achieve functional
proficiency in the target language while others
will become truly bilingual. The acquisition of
language must be seen as a continuum along
which each individual student progresses at
his/her own speed.
Mission Impossible
To begin with the end in mind
means to start with a clear
understanding of our destination.
Stephen R. Covey
Challenges Along the Way
• Stereotypes
• “Teaching only 85 days a year”
• Collaboration
• Perspective of the student and not the
teacher
• Two sets of rooms, teachers, rules and
resources for each student
• Second Language Acquisition (differences
between languages)
Planning
• 6 years of common planning time -
professional culture
• Specifically addresses subject areas within
the transdisciplinary program
• Textbook is never the program
• Language Arts Curriculum review
• Six Traits
• Example: Under Construction
Science: Under Construction
Strand Related Content Skills
Concepts Children will Children will be able
demonstrate an to do…
understanding
of…
Materials and Form: A man-made structure Research skills:
matter: properties is a collection of Use scientific inquiry to
components assembled design and conduct
Properties of to support a weight investigations
building materials Function:
Explore the properties of a
(stability, structure) stability, process,
Properties of materials variety of building materials
forces determine their use Investigate how structures
Forces: stand up
Connection: How structures are built Explain cause and effect
Squeezing, interdependence (from design to actual relationships
stretching, bending, building)
sliding, twisting Thinking skills:
All structures have a Investigate geometric
purpose designs to figure out which
ones support more weight
Structures are built in Select, research and design a
interdependence with structure in a particular
the local environment environmental setting
Mathematics: Under Construction
Grade Unit Strand Expectations
2 Transdisciplinary Numbers
Theme: Add and subtract 2-digit numbers
How the world Multiplication by 2’s, 5’s, 10’s
works Read and write numbers up to a 1,000
Unit Title:
Under Measurement
Construction Measure length/height/weight in metric and US standard
Central Idea:
People and
animals build a Patterns & function
variety of Patterns in multiples
structures to meet
their needs.
Shape and space
Symmetry
Construct symmetrical shapes
Perimeter and area of polygons
Similarities and differences between 2 D and 3-D shapes
Data handling
Construct data tables, bar graphs, and tally charts
Language Arts: Under
Construction
Listening/Speaking Language Standards Reading Writing
Recalls sequence of events, Parts of Speech Distinguishes between different Uses part of the writing process:
remembers important detail: Identifies nouns, verbs, types of text: Improves writing using given
Summarize and present characters adjectives: Alphabetizes to the third letter criteria and checklists:
in the book (Sockensuchmaschine) Carousel activity: Finds words in a dictionary Traits: Organization and Ideas:
Sequences events (spaghetti tower, Look for nouns, verbs and Recognizes fiction/ non fiction: Journal entries –plan your draft,
etc) adjectives that have to do with Use encyclopedia to look up introduce common graphic
PowerPoint on bridges – watch. construction definition of construction and organizer
Listen, view and take notes: which Work with vocabulary lists, estehtics, review ABC order (1st Use sample papers for
materials are used, which bridge is review parts of speech unit focus) organization
build for which purpose etc. Compound nouns (words using – Use checklist to revise work
haus or Haus-) Reads and responds to a variety Sequence: Read sentence strips on
Speaks clearly with appropriate Conjugation of verbs in present of text: Spaghetti tower steps and
expression: tense ( use construction verbs: Fiction: sequence
Present children’s right during UN abuen, streichen, etc) Literature connections:
assembly, Past tense – Perfekt ( ich habe Sockensuchmachine Writes for a variety of purposes:
Sing Rights of the Children gebaut) of verbs Das große böse Schwein und die Procedural writing: Record
drei kleinen Wölfe experiments: Newspaper tower
Uses complete sentences with Uses complete sentences with Reads aloud with confidence, Spaghetti Tower
appropriate word order Describe appropriate word order: fluency and some expression: Build a bridge that carries a load
drawing of construction place to Passive/ active voice: ich baue ein Expressing different roles Use scientific process structure to
each other, speak and record about hause. Ein Haus wird gebaut. Use text to classify materials and record (Question, Hypothesis,
what you see in complete Applies known spelling patterns: tools for construction on chart Experiment, Observation,
sentences Double consonants after short Non-fiction: conclusion)
Song: “Fleißige Handwerker”, Use vowels from vocabulary list for Read text about AIS history
pantomime to show different verbs unit Reading comprehension questions Write research report on influence
Present finding of research to the Read pages on climate, purpose, on construction: Purpose, climate,
group materials and architects and architects, materials
Expresses opinions: construction
Defend position on esthetics – do Use information text to find
you think AIS is an esthetic information, record date, interpret
building it and present in written and oral
form on poster
Teaching
• Inquiry based instruction
• Inquiry Cycle by Kath Murdoch
Inquiry Cycle
Finding Sorting
Out Out
Inquiry
Cycle
Tuning by Going
In Kath further
Murdoch
Taking Making
Action Conclusions
Teaching Cont.
• Example: City Life
• Literature based
instruction
• Example: Connecting
the Pieces (Number
the Stars SP, FR, E)
• Learning about
language
• Example: A Long
Time Ago
Assessment-Essential Agreements
Pre- and Summative Assessment - Practical
implication at AIS:
These assessments for the units of inquiry can be
done in one language, or it can be shared by the
two language teachers. The students should be
given a choice of language, as this is not a
language assessment but linked to the central
idea of the unit. It should only be used to assess
the conceptual understandings and not the
language skills.
Example: A Long Time Ago (GE, SP)
Assessment cont.
• Concept versus language ability
• Example: Under Construction
• OLA, ERB’s, Writing Assessment
• Report Cards
The Long and Winding Road…
