Date: 10/10/2019 Audience: YEAR 9 and 12 students Venue: Louvre Museum Abu Dhabi Title: 12 Travel & Tourism Coursework trip- Louvre Museum Abu Dhabi Presenters / Conductors: Archit, Saif, Rithi, Midusha, Simran and Naomi Aims & Objectives:To facilitate the art appreciation experience of students and expose them to rich cultural traditions. To conduct a field…
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International Teachers’ Day
On the occasion of International Teachers’ Day our Year 12 Business students took on the mantle of conducting Business and Economics lessons for the Year 10 students . They made the students brainstorm on a business idea . Subsequently to test the students’ knowledge and application skills they had created 2 Business Bingos. The Year…
DS Venturists Inter-school Business competition
Date: 5/10/2019 Audience: Student Volunteers, Participants, Teachers, Judges at Dubai Scholars Venue: Dubai Scholars Private School Title: DS Venturists – Inter-School Business Competition Presenters / Conductors: DS Venturists Business team, student volunteers and organizers. Aims & Objective: -To leverage the exceptional intellectual talent from the UAE to solve major global business issues. -To challenge students…
Reflection & AFL using Padlet
The Padlet is a powerful ICT tool for recapitulating and summarizing the key take aways of the lesson . It helps students to revisit the BIG Question posed at the beginning of the lesson and also serves as an excellent AFL strategy. padlet-wxxqgpkknlq4
Field Trip Adventure
Date: 03/10/2019 Audience: YEAR 11 and 12 STUDENTS Venue: TEPFACTOR JBR Title: 12 TRAVEL AND TOURISM COURSEWORK FIELD TRIP- TEPFACTOR JBR-DUBAI Presenters / Conductors: Michelle, Kiosha, Youssef, Yusra and Nathan Aims & Objective: To conduct field trip to facilitate learning & focus on achieving common goals and team building. Summary: As part of Year 12…
Exploring the lighter side of Economics !
The view that Economics is a dismal science is long outdated . Our very creative Year 12 &13 Economics students used cartoon graphics to depict the basic economic problem. As a part of the Learning Menu activity several students used cartoon strips to focus on concepts of negative externalities and scarcity .
Embedding a culture of reading
“A reader lives a thousand lives . . . The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin. The starting point of most of our Economics Year 12 & 13 lessons are a reading exercise. It provides an excellent stimulus and starter for discussion and gives the students the big picture. Students…
Artificial Intelligence in Business
As a part of the Science Week the Business Department organized a competition on the exciting future and frontiers of Artificial Intelligence in Business . The students had to design a business and marketing plan on application of Artificial Intelligence in the context of their specific business. They had to develop a road map for…
World Tourism Day
Date: 23/09/2019 Audience: Year 10 Travel & Tourism students Venue: The Winchester School Presenters / Conductors: Hiba Zahra, Maha Shameem, Indra Putra. Seth(Year 13 Travel & Tourism students) Aims & Objective: To generate awareness in the travel and tourism sector on the occasion of World Tourism Day 2019. Summary: As part of world tourism day,…
Collaboration is the key
The Year 12 Economics students collaborated to present their key findings based on the case studies provided to them . This exercise helped them to delve deeper into the subject and relate the topic to real world examples . Collaboration and group presentations are an excellent form of active student-led learning.
Graphic Organizer as an effective T&L strategy
The Year 12 Economics students used knowledge mapping to understand the difference between the asymmetric and symmetric information. The real life examples of information failure were explored using Mind Maps. This enabled the students to gain conceptual clarity over core economic concepts.
Active Learning using real world links
The Year 10 Economics students were assigned with countries (Developed, Developing and less developed Countries) to discuss the economic system in the Country . The objective of this activity based learning was to analyze the features of economic systems with real world examples of Cuba, China, Poland and USA.
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