Operations & Processes
Your Duties
The following guide, which includes a selection of entries, is intended to provide a comprehensive overview of operational and teaching standards and their implementation in our educational system. Simply put, our goal is to make this more accessible and understandable to every member of the faculty. If you're looking for more in-depth information and discussion about a particular term, simply click through the highlighted concepts to access the full entry.
Course Progression Overview
Click this LINK to access the Teaching Standards.
Reporting (what to whom)
As stated, the hierarchal structure at Vinschool varies from one campus to another.
It is important that you know the people in your organization such as your managers, co-teachers, SAO, and TAs. Any information about materials for instruction, issues in the classroom, assessment schedule and criteria, behavioural management, child protection and safety, and projects that you would like to propose, will be assisted by the people in your organization.
It is easier to foster a clear and thorough communication line when you are familiar with your own team. You may refer to your branch’s organizational structure to know more about reporting procedures at Vinschool.
Behaviour & Discipline
Discipline & Misconduct
Disciplinary action: by School Principal/Management
- Unacceptable personal or professional conduct
- Serious professional incompetence/performance
The Procedures for disciplinary actions:
– Chance for Improvement when found lacking
• System of warnings intended to improve & adjust behavior, not punish it
– No dismissal for first breach of discipline except:
• gross misconduct and/or negligence
Record Keeping
Data collection is significant in teaching and assessment. Accurate record keeping supports instructional decisions and serves as a visual representation of students' learning gaps and progress.
Keep a record of student’s attendance using Vinschool’s SO system. This is to be done everyday and should be accomplished within the first 5 minutes of every lesson. The SO system can also be used to communicate with parents regarding student homework or celebrating students’ successes.
It is also necessary that you track your students’ learning progressions through participation, quizzes and performance through individual and group tasks and projects offline and online. For online record and assessment, the school’s LMS is advised to be used.
The LMS
Blended learning is a method of teaching that combines online educational materials and opportunities for online interaction with traditional in-person classroom methods. It is this principle which drives the need for teachers to support the learning of the students of Vinschool through an online platform, or LMS, which gives students control over time, place, path, or pace when doing advanced reading or lesson revisions.
You are expected to use your LMS to support instruction. Trainings on how to maximize the use of LMS to increase student engagement through content, forum and exercises are given to support all teachers, especially the new members of the team.
Please refer to your campus’ policies regarding the use of our system’s LMS to support teaching and learning. Your HoDs will surely provide you training on this.
Assessing Procedures
Primary ESL Teachers are expected to assess the students’ speaking skills in each of the four units in every semester. They are also going to assess the students’ speaking skill given at the end of each term, along with their comments or feedback for each of their learners.
Secondary and High School teachers are expected to assess the students’ speaking and learning skills by the end of each term, along with their feedback for each student to be uploaded on SO.
As part of the assessment process, we are encouraged to maximize the employment of formative and summative assessments in our classrooms to help us:
1. Plan our lessons better.
2. Choose activities that promote inclusion of every learner so that ‘no child is left behind’.
3. Enhance our instructional delivery and practice and alter them to gauge the interests of every student and to aid them in reaching the set outcomes.
4. Promote rigor and equity so that every student is given the same opportunities to apply learning to achieve their targets.
5. Apply differentiated strategies to suit each learner needs.
More information about assessment strategies and assessment tools that best support your teaching and learning can be found in this link below:
Communicating with Families
As we value parents as one of the key stakeholders which help drive the students in achieving the expected learner outcomes, connection with them should not be overlooked. We communicate with parents in a number of ways, one of which is through our official school webpage found in this LINK.
It should be noted that establishing partnerships with parents is not only limited to our school’s webpage. We may contact them through emails and LMS, and through our scheduled Parent-Teacher Meeting in the academic year.
You may please ask your HoDs to know more about policies already in place on how we can foster good connections with the parents of our students at Vinschool.
Safeguarding Policies & Duties
Vinschool Education System aims to create a safe, positive environment for its students. Vinschool acknowledges that, in its efforts, it is not immune from child abuse. Child abuse is a violation of the child’s rights and is an obstacle to the child’s education and healthy development. Therefore, Vinschool has a moral and legal responsibility to the child to prevent and to deal with harm, intentional or not, whether the instances might occur on or outside of the physical school grounds.
Child protection concerns the health, safety, and care of the children, including but not limited to abuse, security, safety of the premises, hygiene, and emergency procedures. Harassment and bullying are also implied in this Policy. All existing and future policies should reflect the CPP.
You may request the complete CPP document from your respective campuses for more information on our school’s safeguarding policy.
Teaching Online
Teaching online may be imposed by the school to support learning or as an alternative to face-to-face training. In certain times like the global pandemic, the operation of the school continues because we can always make use of the advantages of remote teaching. However, it is important to know that we also have our own set of principles for teachers to follow when asked to teach online which include teacher attendance, dress code, reporting, recording, etc.
Online teaching may require the teachers to employ different assessment strategies or use varied platforms such as nearpod.com, class dojo, quiziz.com, and many others to enhance student engagement.
Please talk to your HoDs for advice on the policy mentioned above and the suitable platforms to be used when teaching online.
SY Calendar
Click HERE to access the calendar for AY 2020- 2021