Program+Review+information+and+surveys

In completing our self-study we have chosen to define many practices to refer to the whole HS program, and not just IB courses, except where a specific IB-focus is implied. We have done this because our IB Program will be strengthened to the extent that the whole school understands and implements the IB Standards and Practices.

13 August 2010 -- general overview of review process -- presentation by IB Coordinator to faculty

29 September 2010 -- introduction to Section C work -- presentation by IB Coordinator to faculty

7 October 2010 -- half day in subject area groups to begin work on Section C

Fall 2010 -- teacher and student surveys open

Oct-Dec -- teachers gather evidence, continue working on Section C

8 November 2010 -- steering committee meets for overview of review process, to plan further evidence collection and to edit parent survey
 * Michael Chao -- IB DP Coordinator
 * Brenda Lee -- student, Y2 Diploma candidate
 * Jin Ho Park -- student, Y2 Diploma candidate
 * Erika Barker -- parent of Y1 Diploma candidate and of May 2008 Diploma graduate
 * Steven Dyer -- parent of Y2 Diploma candidate, member of Strategic Planning Core Planning Team
 * Jon Borden -- HS Principal
 * Tom Burgess -- HS Vice-Principal
 * Carol Jordan -- TOK and Chemistry teacher (Carol was named as IB DP Coordinator-designate later in November)
 * Mary Pat Weber -- CAS Coordinator, English A1 teacher

14 December 2010 -- report to governing Board on 5-Year Review process and progress by IB Coordinator

Winter 2010-2011 -- parent survey opens

16 February 2011 -- update to faculty by IB Coordinator, 5-Year Review wiki goes public

Feb-March -- gathering and collating of evidence and other documents continues

30 March 2011 -- final departmental meetings on Section C, identification of strengths, practices in need of strengthening, proposals for improvement in each subject group

6 April 2011 -- Subject group leaders meet to complete Section C -- Overview
 * Michael Chao -- IB DP Coordinator, Math HL
 * Carol Jordan -- TOK, Chemistry, IB DP Coordinator-designate
 * Mary Pat Weber -- CAS Coordinator, TOK, English A1,
 * Josep Capilla -- Spanish B, World Languages Head of Department
 * James Goruk -- History
 * Kent Merdes -- Physics, Science Head of Department
 * Katrina Mangous -- Math SL, Mathematics Head of Department
 * John Leonard -- Music, Performing Arts Head of Department

19 April 2011 -- steering committee meets to complete Sections A, B, D

End of April -- Summary of main conclusions by principal, sent to steering committee for review

Surveys -- Google surveys were used for teachers and students; Google docs is frequently blocked in China, but we have access at school via a VPN. For more universal access, the parent survey was distributed via Surveymonkey.

Teachers, parents and students who completed surveys were told that their responses would not be made public except to the IB Coordinator, the 5-Year Review Steering Committee, and evaluators chosen by the IB Singapore Office. Now that we have received the evaluation report from the IB Singapore Office, survey response comments have been removed, so that other parts of the wiki can be made public.


 * [|Teacher survey -- blank.pdf]
 * [|Teacher survey summary.pdf]


 * [|DP Student survey -- blank.pdf]
 * [|DP Student survey summary.pdf]


 * [|IB Parent survey.pdf]
 * [|IB Parent survey Chinese.pdf]
 * [|IB parent survey Korean.pdf]
 * [|Parent survey -- closed response.pdf]