Class IV IC Tech Darakhshan Campus ACTION PLAN

Long Term Goal “Adopting 21 st century teaching and learning approaches to enhance the students’ appreciation of Information Technology skills”

Short Term Goals ■ To develop proficiency in IT skills along with integrating the core subjects with IT ■ To involve and encourage students’ participation by providing opportunities to excel as individuals and monitoring their performance through positive feedback and rewards ■ To encourage their higher order learning to enabling them to think critically

TIMELINE

MONTH WISE JANUARY Topic Collecting and Presenting data Ex 1, 2, 3 and 4 FEBRUARY Topic Collecting and Presenting data Ex 5, and Activity(Assessed) MARCH Topic Modeling Effects on Screen Ex 1, 2,3 APRIL Topic Modeling Effects on Screen Ex 4 and Activity (Assessed)

Topic: Collecting and Presenting Information Software Used: Information Workshop INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES AND TASKS

Bloom’s Taxonomy

TopicApproachInstructional strategy and Task Collecting and presenting information Remembering: Can the student recall or remember the information? I will co ordinate the materials taught in Social Studies on “Population” I will relate the children’s previous knowledge to how any data gathered can become meaningful and useful to us if presented in an organized way.

TopicApproachInstructional strategy and Task Collecting and presenting information Understanding: Can the student explain ideas or concepts? I will have an oral discussion on what “Population” is?, How population is calculated?, what statistical importance does population has? Why and how the data collected is presented in an organized fashion?

TopicApproachInstructional strategy and Task Collecting and presenting information Applying: Can the student use the information in a new way? I will teach ways to the students what importance does it carries to present and organizing data using the software Black cat Information workshop I will explain the tools of the software for searching the data for extracting relevant information and sorting data for making the data easy to understand I will teach how to make different types of graphs to represent data so the data can be analyzed. E.g. Pie charts, line charts and Bar charts

TopicApproachInstructional strategy and Task Collecting and presenting information Analyzing: Can the student distinguish between the different parts? I will ask questions from the students which they will answer in written on their printouts by analyzing the data from the graphs they created. For e.g. Compare the two charts for the year 1998 and write down the highest and lowest population of the provinces

TopicApproachInstructional strategy and Task Collecting and presenting information Evaluating: Can the student justify a stand or decision? I will evaluate the understanding of the students by the analysis they performed on the collected information how they are enable to derive and interpret the information from the graphically represented data

TopicApproachInstructional strategy and Task Collecting and presenting information Creating: Can the student create new product or point of view? I will ensure that the students are enable to look beyond just gathering information, but to bring a meaning to the data collected

ANTICIPATED CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS

Challenge: I need to thoroughly understand the concepts being taught in the core subjects to reinforce them while teaching the IT Skills to the students Solution: I will pre plan my lectures, will attend subject coordination meetings to keep abreast with what is being taught in the curriculum of core subjects in the classroom. Challenge: I need to be keep myself updated with the latest technological developments to prepare my students for the coming tomorrow Solution: I will browse the internet for latest technological development to become the window for my students through which they can peep into the challenges of tomorrow

RESOURCES

Internet Word Processing/ Multimedia/ Spreadsheets applications Resource books and knowledge of good search engines to access related websites Subject coordinators having subject command and basic computer skills

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to thank Almighty ALLAH, who enabled me to complete my INTEL Getting started course. Next I would like to thank my employer The City School and INTEL Education Program for providing me the opportunity to facilitate and provide me a platform to learn about the latest teaching skills and tools. Last but not the least I am grateful to my Master Trainer Ms. Maleeha Ali Memon, who guided me through the course and facilitated me to learn and grow ! Thank You

CONCLUSION

“21st Century teaching and learning approaches facilitate both the teachers and students which will empower teachers to help students master core subjects and learn skills including communication, problem solving, critical thinking, global awareness and technology. In this global marketplace, our kids need to learn the proper skills and gain hands-on, real-world experience if they hope to keep abreast with the modern times.”