Action Plan

Teachers:Muhammad Saeed Shaikh

Class: O Level, Senior 2Subject: English LanguageDate: 01 August 2011

For Augut 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

– Level of comprehension

– Understanding of different types of comprehension questions

– Creative ability

• 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

Effectivecommunication

WEEK

1

WEEK

2

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EK

3

.Diagnosis

Implicit/Explicit Questions

Comprehension Practice

TheTime-LineFor August

2011

TASKS&

MODES

MODES OF LEARNING

GOALS

STUDENTS’ CENTERED INSTRUCTION

21st Century Students’ Skills

21st Century Teachers’ Approaches

Improving Comprehension:

Comprehension worksheetsSummary Writing

Intellectual CuriosityCritical ThinkingProblem Identification

Effective Questioning Intervening

Developing Composition Skills:

Writing summaries

CreativityIntellectual CuriosityProblem Identification

Listening & SpeakingGiving DirectionsEncouraging

Individualisti

cally

Competitively

The Arrow shows the direction of the order of thinking.

Model Lesson

Passage A

• Notes-Making• Summary-Writing• Fact & Opinion• Determining The Conclusion• Personal Response

Comprehending The Comprehension

Passage B

• Implicit & Explicit Questions• Inferential Questions• Own-Words Questions• One Word Answers• Vocabulary Questin

SAMPLE PASSAGE A SAMPLE PASSAGE B

Applying Cognitive Domainof Bloom’s Taxonomy

Sample: Comprehension ExerciseRemembering What does comprehension mean?

Understanding What is the difference between an explicit and implicit an question?

ApplyingWrite one fact and one opinion about a given topic.Summarise a given passage; answer both explicit and implicit questions (in your own words)…

Analyzing Can the students determine the gist of the given passage?

Evaluating Can the students count the number of points that they have used in their own summaries.

CreatingCan students frame both implicit and explicit questions and write their own facts and opinions other than the passage ones?

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/

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