Darakshan Farrukh The City School Grade 3 Action Plan Darakshan Farrukh The City School Grade 3

Long term goals: Adopt 21 st century teaching approaches to enhance students understand Mathematics English Science Social studies

Short term goals: Encourage critical thinking in students Change the pattern of questioning and paper setting Focus on learning through practical work Implement observation based learning Encourage students to develop independent thinking and reassoning Use available resources

Instructional Strategies and tasks Stratagies Tasks Give more opportunities to students to acquire high order thinking Time will be given for group discussion Working on time lines and dead lines Project and report based learning Questions related to reasoning will be asked Lab work will be conducted to help understand better

Solutions to anticipated challenges The principal may not like my approach or might disapprove of it Parents may not relate to my teaching strategies Labs may not be available for practical work I will share my course work and manuals with her to make her see the benefits of this approach Parents will be invited to sit in the class room and observe themselves Lab work will be conducted on availability of the labs

Resources My fellow teachers who teach my grade Internet Teacher resource guides Books and newsletters

conclusion By implementing my newly acquired teaching techniques and approaches I can empower my students and help them gain more enhanced knowledge and focus.