Principal’s Signature: ___________________________________
Inspector Report Date: June 3-6, 2012
Owner’s Signature – recommended: ______________________
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN
2012-2014
Goal 1 - Raise the quality of teaching and learning in all grades, by:
a. ensuring teachers use assessment data, particularly in literacy and
numeracy, to match teaching to students learning needs
b. ensure that children in the KG are able to learn through purposeful play
based activities that match their development needs
c. linking what is taught within the curriculum between the junior and high
school
d. monitoring and evaluating teaching and providing training based on the
outcomes of this to raise the performance of individual
teachers
e. providing students across the school with opportunities to develop and use
higher‐order thinking skills and ICT skills
f. ensure that teachers understand child protection issues so that they are
able to properly care for their students
Standards – 1, 2, 4, 6, 9
Targets (Objectives)
Tasks
What do you want to achieve What tasks do you need to do
– must be specific,
to achieve your target? Be
measurable, attainable,
specific.
relevant, time bound
Success Indicators
Costing
How will you know
when you have met
the target? Show the
data that is used to
measure the progress
of each task
What resources
do you need to
implement this
strategy, in
terms of
personnel,
resources, time
and finances?
Cost out the
financials
Lead
Start
End
Who is the
Date task Date task
main person starts
ends
responsible
to implement
and monitor
Progress
Checks of
SIP Goal
Dates of
strategy
review
Dec. ______
March _____
June ______
By December 2012 teachers
will have received
Professional Development on
best practice in using
assessment data to address
student learning needs.
One staff meeting per month
from October-December 2012
will be dedicated to
understanding and using
assessment data to improve
student learning.
Minutes will be kept
from staff meetings
and will be distributed
to teachers.
Feedback will be
collected from
teachers.
Time, teacher
participation.
No financial
costs.
Administration
To be
determined by
committee with
a ceiling of
Lower
Elementary
Teachers
Lead Teachers
October
15, 2012
March
2013
December
October
2012
June 2014 December
March
Students not meeting
expectations in
provincial
assessments will
have specific target
goals set out for
them.
By June 2014 children in the
KG will be presented with
learning activities centered
around purposeful play
based activities, that match
their development needs
Beginning in January 2013
specific links will be made
between what is taught
within the curriculum at the
junior and high school
levels.
Set up a committee to
evaluate resources available
for teachers.
Teachers will have
more resources for
delivery of program.
Provide learning opportunities
for teachers and assistants to
teach more centered and play
based activities.
Students will have a
broader experience
with play based
learning.
Purchases resources as
necessary.
Evidence will be
demonstrated in
teacher planning.
Regular meetings will be held
with subject specific teachers
looking at outcomes being
taught at each level from
Grades 7-12.
Teachers will have a
better understanding
of what students
learned at the
previous grade level.
Expectations will be set with
regards to transitioning from
one grade to the next.
Cross grade presentations, by
both teachers and students,
will be made at these levels.
Transitions for
students will be better
monitored and a
check list will be kept
to insure that
procedures are
followed.
A lead teacher role will be
created for each of the core
subject areas.
Teachers will be
better informed and
will have a support
9,000 dhs
1.000 PD
No cost
March
June
Administration
Nova Scotia
Dept of
Education
Junior and
Senior High
Teachers
Program
Support
Teachers
Administration
Guidance
January
2013
June 2014 February
May
person in their subject
area.
We will monitor and
evaluate teaching and
provide training to improve
the performance of
individual teachers. All
teachers will have
participated in professional
growth planning and/or full
supervision by June 2013
All teachers will participate
Professional Growth Planning
by November 1 of each year.
One third of staff will have full
Supervision for Growth on a
yearly basis.
Formal and informal
observations will be carried
out regularly.
Moodle will be used as a tool
to connect teachers teaching
common subjects and areas
at other NS schools in China.
By June 2014 we will
provide students across the
school with opportunities to
develop and use
a. higher‐order
thinking skills
b. ICT skills
Purchase lap tops and
netbooks that will be used in
each classroom.
Provide Professional
Development for staff on
using higher order thinking
skills in their daily planning
and delivery of program as
well as on ICT.
Provide Professional
Development on using
Bloom’s Taxonomy as a
teaching tool.
Evidence that one
third of staff has
participated in full
supervision and all
staff in professional
growth planning.
No cost
Teachers and
Administration
Oct. 8,
2012
introduce
SIP
Oct. 29,
2012
format for
PGP
Supervision will be
documented and
plans will reflect
areas that require
professional growth.
June of
each year
October,
2012
PGP and November
Supervisio 2012
n reports
are signed June 2013
and saved
on server.
Nov. 18,
2012
goals are
due
Yearly
Students will have
access to ICT on a
daily basis in their
classrooms following
the Nova Scotia
Curriculum.
Students will have
daily exposure to
higher order thinking
skills in their classes.
Purchase
laptops and
netbooks with
carts for easy
transportation
and sharing
within the
school.
School Owners
ICT
Administration
October
2012
IT Support
Personnel
Teachers
Ongoing
January
March
Software
Sept 2013
June
Higher
Order
Thinking
Skills
$75,000.00
Teachers will have
training on using new Software
ICT resources and
$20,000.00
how to best use them
PD as provided
in classrooms.
by NS and
software
distributors
January
2013
$20,000.00
By December 2012 all
teachers will understand
child protection issues so
that they are able to
properly care for their
Teachers have been required
to read and sign the Child
Protection Policy. These will
be collected and kept on file.
Policy is in place and No costs
all staff read and
signed the Policy and
have a firm
understanding of
Principal, Vice
Principal,
Guidance
Counselor
August 26, Ongoing
2012
Septembe
Sept 2012
Dec 2012
June 2013
students
One staff meeting will be
dedicated to understanding
the laws and regulations
regarding Child Protection in
the UAE. We will seek out
personnel from ADEC or
government to assist us with
this. Policy will be posted in
Parent and School Handbook.
Child Protection.
r 10, 2012
No costs
All parties are aware
of the policy
Principal, VP,
Guidance
Ongoing
Sept
2012
Sept
2012
Sept
2013
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN
2012- 2014
Goal 2 - Deepen students’ exposure to, and understanding of, UAE culture
and values through:
a.
taking every opportunity to integrate these aspects across the
curriculum while meeting the requirements of the MoE curriculum
b.
refurbishing and properly maintaining the prayers rooms
Standards - 1, 3, 5, 9
Targets
Success Indicators
What do you want to achieve How will you know when you
– must be specific,
have met the target and data
measurable, attainable,
used to measure progress
relevant, time bound
By June 2013 we will
integrate aspects of UAE
culture and values with the
Nova Scotia outcomes.
Social studies and language
arts teachers will work with
Arabic teachers and students
to make links between NS
curriculum and the UAE
culture.
Students will have more
exposure to learning about the
UAE culture and have a better
understanding of the country in
which they are living.
By December 2012 we will
refurbish and properly
maintain prayer rooms.
The prayer room will be set up
inside the front gate in a
designated room with access to
water and washrooms.
Tasks
What tasks do you
need to do to achieve
your target? Be
specific.
Costing
What resources
do you need to
implement this
strategy, in
terms of
personnel,
resources, time
and finances?
Cost out the
financials
Teachers will plan a
Covered by
minimum of one trip a parents
year to a cultural or
historical site within the
UAE .
Lead
Start
End
Who is the
Date task Date task
main person starts
ends
responsible
to implement
and monitor
Progress
Checks of
SIP Goal
Dates of
strategy
review
Dec. ______
March _____
June ______
Teachers
Admin
Sept.
2012
Ongoing
Dec
March
May
Trips will be tracked to
ensure that classes
are not going to same
places year after year.
Set up a committee to
properly equip the
prayer room with what
is required.
Cost will be
Owner
October
minimal as the
2012
Support Staff
work will be
done voluntarily Committee
December
2012
Dec, 2012
Students will have rooms to
carry out prayers on a daily
basis.
Decorate the room
with Quranic verses
and Islamic posters.
Admin
Ask for donations of
Islamic books and
prayer clothing.
Staff
Create and Islamic
Club where trips to
certain Islamic
museums and guest
speakers are
accessible.
Security
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN
2012-2014
Goal 3 - Improve the effectiveness and impact of leadership and
management, by:
a. establishing an effective leadership structure with clear roles and
responsibilities
b. training leaders so that they can full fill their roles, for example, in
monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of teaching and in
helping teachers to improve
Standards - 1, 9
Targets
Success Indicators
What do you want to achieve How will you know when you
– must be specific,
have met the target and data
measurable, attainable,
used to measure progress
relevant, time bound
Tasks
What tasks do you
need to do to achieve
your target? Be
specific.
Costing
What resources
do you need to
implement this
strategy, in
terms of
personnel,
resources, time
and finances?
Cost out the
financials
Lead
Start
End
Who is the
Date task Date task
main person starts
ends
responsible
to implement
and monitor
Progress
Checks of
SIP Goal
Dates of
strategy
review
Dec. ______
March _____
June ______
By June 2013 the school will Beginning in September 2012
continue to work on
a Vice Principal and Guidance
establishing an effective
Counselor were hired.
leadership structure with
Teachers will have a clearer
clear roles and
understanding of roles and
responsibilities
responsibilities of all leadership
personnel.
We will create
Documents clearly
stating the role and
responsibility of each
person in an
administrative role
within the school.
No cost
Admin
(An English
School
First Language Owners
assistant has
been hired Sept
2012)
Sept
2012
June 2014
Dec.
March
June
Administrative support
Office procedures will run more will be hired who are
smoothly and parent
proficient in reading
satisfaction will increase.
and writing English
and will report to
specific leaders
Administrative support
will be given clear
guidelines and job
descriptions.
By June 2014 all leaders will
use the training that they
have, or need, so that they
can full fill their roles, for
example, in monitoring and
evaluating the effectiveness
of teaching and in helping
teachers to improve.
In September 2012 a plan will
be made for full evaluation of
1/3 of the staff. Staff will be
assigned to each administrator
to work with for professional
growth and supervision.
Teachers will be
responsible to write
professional growth
plans that are
achievable and
attainable.
Professional growth plans will
be written by all teachers and
monitored so that growth is
possible and evident.
One leader will
participate in PD
provided by ADEC in
leadership
development.
We will see an increase in
student achievement through
grades, provincial and school
based assessment.
Lead teachers will model
excellence in teaching and
learning through professional
learning communities and in
co-teaching in the classroom.
Data will be collected
and shared with staff
to better understand
the academic needs of
the school.
No cost
Admin
Teachers
Sept
2012
June 2014
Dec
Mar
June
Goal 4
a.
b.
c.
Address the health and safety issues:
storage of chemicals and access to laboratories
supervision of bus arrivals and departures, and wearing of seat belts
dangerous curtain cords and broken glass cabinets
Standards – 1, 6, 7, 8, 9
Targets
Success Indicators
What do you want to achieve How will you know when you
– must be specific,
have met the target and data
measurable, attainable,
used to measure progress
relevant, time bound
Store all chemicals so that they
are not accessible
Tasks
What tasks do you
need to do to achieve
your target? Be
specific.
Costing
What resources
do you need to
implement this
strategy, in
terms of
personnel,
resources, time
and finances?
Cost out the
financials
Lead
Start
End
Who is the
Date task Date task
main person starts
ends
responsible
to implement
and monitor
Progress
Checks of
SIP Goal
Dates of
strategy
review
Dec. ______
March _____
June ______
At this time this goal has been met
By October 2012 students will Students will arrive and depart
be supervised at bus arrivals and school safely.
departures, and seat belts will be
Seatbelts will be used at all
worn.
times on the buses
One person will be
No cost
assigned to stand at
the door when
students are arriving
and departing and one
Bus
Monitors
Bussing
Supervisor
Sept.
2012
Ongoing
Dec
March
June
person at the entry to
the buses as students
enter and depart. This
will happen both in the
morning and
afternoon.
Bus monitors will
ensure that students
are wearing seatbelts
on a daily basis.
Teachers will teach
bus safety in their
classes in Grades KG
to Grade 9.
A communication tool
will be created for
parents and students
regarding bus
regulations and safety.
dangerous curtain cords and
broken glass cabinets
At this time this goal has been
met. All reported hazards have
been repaired.
Admin
School
Owners