Student Feedback

Yesterday (Friday) I was invited to attend the Grade 7 Oral Communications class to hear persuasive speeches that the students were presenting. The students had been working on 3 things they would change at GSIS and this was their opportunity to persuade the Principal to make these changes. The ideas ranged from standardizing the student laptops, to allowing Korean to be spoken during lunch time, to providing more opportunities for our sheltered students to work in academic settings with mainstream students. This feedback from the students was very well thought out and very practical. I was particularly impressed with the way the students presented their ideas and supporting reasons. The students spoke very clearly and audibly, and they paced their delivery very well; demonstrating real improvement in their verbal English ablilty. This was a wonderfully positive experience and was another example of the outstanding teaching and learning that is occuring at GSIS.