1. Action Plan

2.  Successful school improvement…..depends on understanding of the problem of change at the level of the practice and the development of corresponding strategies for bringing about beneficial reforms. Stoll, L.and Fink, D.(1996) pg 44 (changing our school)

3.  To enable the students to adopt 21 st century teaching skills in Urdu learning.  To incorporate Bloom’s taxonomy.

4.  Developed students reading skills using 21 st century teaching skills.  To help students understand that they can use internet, word processing, multimedia applications for their Urdu projects.  To encourage students to move from lower – order thinking to higher-order thinking skills for creative writing.

5.  Focus on the language skills through different activities.

7.  I will provide more opportunities for students to answer questions that require higher-order thinking.  I will train students for the assembly presentations, elocution, debate competition and role play.  I will display progress chart for this purpose Ms excel will be used.

8.  I will take different worksheets from the internet.

9.  Challenges  Children might not be aware of using in page software on computer.  There may be some students who do not have the internet facility at home.  Parents may not give importance to Urdu as a core subject.  Student’s Urdu handwriting is not good.

10.  Solutions  The in page software should be installed in the computer lab to facilitate the Urdu teachers as well as students.  Parents should be given awareness of the importance of internet these days, so they can corporate with us.  I will download the worksheet from the internet and give them as writing practice in class.

11. Aug-sep I’ll asses the students skills. Oct-Nov I’ll focus on the reading skills. Dec-Jan I’ll work on the grammatical skills. Feb-March I’ll focus on creative writing skills. April-May All concepts will be reinforced.

12.  Other teacher’s help because I was a beginner.  Internet  Microsoft office.(word, PowerPoint, excel…)  Different Urdu books.  Intel program.

13.  By implementing my newly acquired 21 st century teaching approaches, students will be empowered, appreciate and gain a better knowledge of Urdu language.

14.  In the end I would like to thank The City School(P.A.F. chapter), principle Mrs Naila Durani, our head Miss Tahira Zia who gave us the chance to have Intel workshop within school premises, and last but not the least I would like to thank our MT Uzma Aslam for teaching us.