Action Plan Teachers:Muhammad Saeed Shaikh Class:O Level, Senior 2 Subject:English Language Date:01 September 2011 For September 2011 The City School,

Action Plan

Teachers:Muhammad Saeed Shaikh

Class: O Level, Senior 2Subject: English LanguageDate: 01 September

2011

For September 2011The City School, Gulshan Boys’ Campus

Karachi

Long – Term

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.

Goals

Short – Term Goals

In the up-coming session I shall:

• Adopt computer-based instruction

methodology involving

– Understanding how to describe different aspects (people/things/places/phenomena & experience/events)

– Creative ability

– Persuasive writing

• Ensure more collaborative learning on the part of the pupils to enhance:

– Worksheets on MS Word

– Result Sheets on MS Excel

– Presentations on MS Powerpoint

ANALYZING EVALUATING CREATING

REMEMBERINGUNDERSTANDINGAPPLYING

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

Blooming Skills of 21st Century

HIGHER ORDER THINKING

LOWER ORDER THINKING

The Time-Line: For September 2011

Effectivecommunication

WEEK

1

WEEK

2

WE

EK

3

.Descriptive Essays

Speech Writing

Delivering the speeches

WEEK

4

Descriptions

TASKS&

MODES

MODES OF LEARNING

GOALS

STUDENTS’ CENTERED INSTRUCTION

21st Century Students’ Skills

21st Century Teachers’ Approaches

Developing compositions:

Describing people, places orevents

Intellectual CuriosityCritical ThinkingProblem Identification

Effective Questioning Intervening

Developing Persuasive Writing:

Writing speeches

CreativityIntellectual CuriosityProblem Identification

Listening & SpeakingGiving DirectionsEncouraging

Individualisti

cally

Competitively

The Arrow shows the direction of the order of thinking.

Model Lesson

Type 1:

• Describing:

– A person– An interesting place– A significant thing– A phenomenon

Comprehending The Description EssaysPassage B

• Describing an interesting

– Experience or an event

ALL ABOUT DESCRIPTIVE ESSAYS SAMPLE DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY

HOW TO DESCRIBE THE WEATHER HOW TO DESCRIBE PEOPLE

Applying Cognitive Domainof Bloom’s Taxonomy

Sample: Lesson On Description EssayRemembering 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?

Challenges Solutions

INCOMPREHENSIBILITY Collaborative Work [pair-work]Effective Questioning Technique

LACK OF INTERESTUsage of 21st Century Technology[use of internet]Effective Encouraging Skills

DISRUPTIVENESS PresentationsEffective Intervening SkillsEffective Monitoring

UNAVAILABILITY OF RESOURCESPrior Information to ManagementWell-Planned ActivitiesUtilizing Cellular Technology

RESOURCES 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.

www.cie.org.uk www.xtremepapers.net www.slideshare.net www.templateswise.com/ www.onestopenglish.com

CONCLUSION

I realized

I will have to be:

APPROACHABLEINTERACTIVE

TRUST-WORTHY

During The Intel Teach – Getting Started Course…

by adopting the approaches and strategies of 21st century.

the need to embellish my instructional potentiality

AcknowledgementThank you Intel Teach Program Team…

•For their benevolent guidance & support.

•For rekindling a fervor of improving myself so as to be more competitive.

Thank You