Dear Teachers:
As the busy and exciting first two weeks has passed, we gradually move onto the normal track. Thanks a lot for your hard work and support. Our school started on a strong and positive tune. Here are some areas that we still need to pay attention to:
1. We have noticed that some teachers did not check the updated student list in the system. As a result, students who registered to the class have been sent to the library by mistake. As the registration process winding down, we still have some new students joining in. Please check the system periodically and take the class roster (点名) each Sunday to make sure that students on the list are matching ones sitting in the class. This process will also help you to get familiar with each student.
2. Parent teacher communication: The school requires all teachers, including non-language teachers, to communicate with your class parents in the beginning of school year to build parent-teacher relationship(Adult Class is optional). We have noticed that most teachers have done a great job in communicating with parents. We’ve also heard feedbacks from some parents that they haven’t received anything from their child’s class teacher. Please do so as soon as you can if you haven’t. For all Chinese teachers , if you mainly use emails for parent communication, please cc your email to deanofncls@gmail.com. You are also encouraged to use our teacher’s blog for communication.
3. Teachers Club: To enrich teachers’ outside classroom activity and bond our teachers community, we have two teachers activity group within the club. One is Mulan Sword/drum (木兰剑/腰鼓）group and the other is fashion show （时装表演） group. We encourage our teachers to join the club activities and enjoy the fun. If you are interested, please contact Cai Jie (蔡洁老师）jiecai2004@yahoo.com for sword/drum group and Zhao Yongmei (赵咏梅老师）maryzhao718@gmail.com for fashion group. These two group have just started their new school year practice. We hope more teachers could join their fun activities. If you have any idea to form new activity group for our teachers, please let us know.
4. Our gifts (tissue and markers) and letter to Day school teachers have been distributed to all classrooms, thanks a lot for all of your cooperation and understanding. For the past two weeks, we had a very smooth classroom management. Let’s keep up with it.
Here is this week’s newsletter to parents: http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/
Thanks and see you this Sunday.
Ling and Li