The City School PAF Chapter Seema Shams Urdu Jr. VI

“ Education comes from living life, following passions, accessing information, observing, reflecting, and being inspired by wise and courageous elders in the community.” Claire Aumonier. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” Albert Einstein

Adopt 21 st century teaching approaches To develop in the students reading habits in such a way that they become independent learners and intellectual human beings. To apply Bloom’s taxonomy.

To initiate reading habits thoroughly in class to develop an inquisitive mind in children. To help them to become a more independent learner. To encourage weak students and promote critical thinking by changing questioning strategies. Use of computer to develop interest in subject. Increase interest in Urdu literature.

Creating Generating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing things Designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing. Evaluating Justifying a decision or course of action Checking, hypothesising, critiquing, experimenting, judging Analysing Breaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationships Comparing, organising, deconstructing, interrogating, finding Applying Using information in another familiar situation Implementing, carrying out, using, executing Understanding Explaining ideas or concepts Interpreting, summarising, paraphrasing, classifying, explaining Remembering Recalling information Recognising, listing, describing, retrieving, naming, finding

Close monitoring of students by taking rounds in class. Provide chance to collaborate effectively in group work. Organize interesting activities like story telling, news reading, quizzes, book reviews and searching for meanings of difficult words from dictionary.story tellingnews readingbook reviews dictionary I will encourage them by giving them rewards like certificates, badges, and appreciation letters.certificates badges I will provide more opportunities to children to answer the questions. Dedicated class-time to reading books. Promoting newspaper reading.newspaper Making students write reports about newspaper clippings. To set a library corner in class.library corner

Lack of interest in students. Tedious checking. Unexpected holidays. Non availability of resources like computer lab. Shortage of new books in library. Head’s approval. Use activity based learning techniques (role play, Quiz, story telling) Peer checking, group work. Arrange extra periods for missing work. Make suitable and acceptable arrangements. To set a library corner in class. Brief about my plan in advance.

JANUARY group work to enhance students reading and writing skills.(Comprehension, Sentence making ) FEBRUARY practicing critical thinking questions.(Quiz) MARCH presentations and competitions. (Project Work, reading competitions) APRIL spelling and vocabulary practice.(dictation, use of dictionary) MAY students at this stage will be writing book review independently. (Book Review, Story writing)

Child reads with correct fluency and pronunciation. Increased vocabulary Improved writing skills with correct spellings.

Internet Library Storybooks/newspapers Teachers of same grade and subject. Head of section. Intel teach program, getting started course manual. Ibtida.com YouTube

Students will be able to develop interest and gain better knowledge of answering techniques by using 21 st century technology to acquire education in a positive way.