1. The City School, Gulshan Boys’ Campus Karachi
Teachers: Muhammad Saeed Shaikh
Class: O Level, Senior 2
Subject: English Language
Date: 01 September 2011
Action Plan
For September 2011
The City School, Gulshan Boys’ Campus Karachi

2. Long – Term Goals To unleash the potential of the pupils making them:
More competitive to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
More communicative to be more competitive.
More skilled to be more communicative.
To inspire them to be a better and beneficial person.

3. Short – Term Goals In the up-coming session I shall:
Adopt computer-based instruction
methodology involving
Worksheets on MS Word
Result Sheets on MS Excel
Presentations on MS Powerpoint
Ensure more collaborative learning on the part of the pupils to enhance:
Understanding how to describe different aspects (people/things/places/phenomena & experience/events)
Creative ability
Persuasive writing

4. Problem-Solving Skills Self-Direction Skills
ANALYZING
EVALUATING
CREATING
HIGHER ORDER THINKING
Blooming Skills of 21st Century
Communication &
Information Skills
Information and Media Literacy Skills
Accessing & Analyzing Information
Critical Thinking &
Problem-Solving Skills
Problem Identification, Formulation and Solution
Creativity and Intellectual Curiosity
Critical Thinking, High-Order Thinking
Interpersonal &
Self-Direction Skills
Self-Direction
Agility, Accountability and Adaptability
Leadership & Responsibility
Interpersonal and Collaboration
Initiative & Entrepreneurialism
LOWER ORDER THINKING
REMEMBERING
UNDERSTANDING
APPLYING

5. The Time-Line: For September 2011
Effective
communication W E K 1 2 3 .
Descriptive Essays
Speech Writing
Delivering the speeches 4
Descriptions

6. TASKS & MODES MODES OF LEARNING GOALS STUDENTS’ CENTERED INSTRUCTION
21st Century
Students’ Skills
21st Century Teachers’ Approaches
Developing compositions:
Describing people, places or
events
Intellectual Curiosity
Critical Thinking
Problem Identification
Effective Questioning
Intervening
Developing Persuasive Writing:
Writing speeches
Creativity
Listening & Speaking
Giving Directions
Encouraging
Individualistically
Competitively
The Arrow shows the direction of the order of thinking.

7. Model Lesson Comprehending The Description Essays Describing:
Type 1:
Describing:
A person
An interesting place
A significant thing
A phenomenon
Passage B
Describing an interesting
Experience or an event
ALL ABOUT DESCRIPTIVE ESSAYS
SAMPLE DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY
HOW TO DESCRIBE THE WEATHER
HOW TO DESCRIBE PEOPLE

8. Applying Cognitive Domain of Bloom’s Taxonomy
Sample: Lesson On Description Essay
Remembering
What is a description essay?
Understanding
What is the difference between a description and narration?
Applying
Give examples of describing people.
Analyzing
Can the students identify the adjectives in a given passage?
Evaluating
Can the students tell the apt descriptions from the lacking- ones.
Creating
Can the students justifiably describe the given aspect?

9. UNAVAILABILITY OF RESOURCES
Challenges
Solutions
INCOMPREHENSIBILITY
Collaborative Work [pair-work]
Effective Questioning Technique
LACK OF INTEREST
Usage of 21st Century Technology
[use of internet]
Effective Encouraging Skills
DISRUPTIVENESS
Presentations
Effective Intervening Skills
Effective Monitoring
UNAVAILABILITY OF RESOURCES
Prior Information to Management
Well-Planned Activities
Utilizing Cellular Technology

10. RESOURCES www.cie.org.uk www.xtremepapers.net www.slideshare.net
The Manual of Intel Teach Program, Getting Started Course.
The Curriculum of The City School, Gulshan Boys’ Campus.
Assistance Provided By The Instructors of Intel Teach Program.
Bloom’s Taxonomy
The Wild World of The World Wide Web.

11. CONCLUSION During The Intel Teach – Getting Started Course… I realized
the need to embellish my instructional potentiality
by adopting the approaches and strategies of 21st century.
I will have to be:
APPROACHABLE
INTERACTIVE
TRUST-WORTHY

12. Acknowledgement Thank you Intel Teach Program Team…
For their benevolent guidance & support.
For rekindling a fervor of improving myself so as to be more competitive.

13. Thank You