ACTION PLAN

Long Term Goals• Adopt 21st Century teaching approaches

to enhance

students’ knowledge

about Geography.

Short term goals• Answering the student’s need to explore and understand

the world around them.• Equipping the student with a range of skills and concepts

enabling him/her to explore and record natural and human features and interactions in local and wider contexts in a systematic way.

• Helping the students to develop a sense of their own place and thus contributes to the student self identity

• Fostering the student’s sense of local,regional ,national and global citizenship

• Developing a sense of individual and community responsibility for environment

Instructional Strategies

• I will choose simple and easy words to explain Geography.

• I make sure to relate maximum topics with

current advancement in the world, it will help students to be in touch with the World.

• I will guide students to understand maps and practice to locate geographical features and locations.

Why Study Geography?

• Geography is all about people and how they interact with each other and their world. Within, the Geography students gain ,

KnowledgeSkillsAttitude

KnowledgeKNOWLEDGE about humans and the social world.

KNOWLEDGE is acquired

most efficiently when taught

through themes and

when students are assisted

in finding relationships between

themselves and different

aspects of their social world.

Skills• Students learn SKILLS that helps them understand more about human and society.

The SKILLS acquired include:

Development of skills in

interpersonal relationships

and social participation Promotion of civic

participation

Attitude• Attitude is the most important

personal growth of students and

is utmost importance to

Geography teachers.

Among the attitudes of our students are: Respect for and celebration of diverse people and

culture Empowerment, a belief that problems can be solved and

wrongs, righted Tolerance for different beliefs and values Responsibility for the protection and conservation of

humanity and its environment.

Time Line:

Chapter Month

1. Pakistan Natural Topography January

2. Climate February

3. Water Resources March

4. Forest April

5. Mineral Resources May

Original Terms New Terms

• Evaluation

• Synthesis

• Analysis

• Application

• Comprehension

• Knowledge

• Creating

• Evaluating

• Analysing

• Applying

• Understanding

• Remembering

(Based on Pohl, 2000, Learning to Think, Thinking to Learn, p. 8)

Instructional Plan

Topic 21st Century Approaches

21st Century Skills

Resources

Natural Topography

Observing & Monitoring Skills,Questioning Skills

Self direction skill

Books

Climate Giving Direction Skills, Encouraging Skills

Information and Critical Thinking

Internet

Water Resources

Listening ,Speaking &Sharing Experiences Skills

Communication Skill

Maps

Topic 21st Century Approaches

21st Century Skills

Resources

Forest Observing and monitoring skillsQuestioning skills

Problem identification, solution and social responsibility

Maps and visit to hawks bay and DHA sites

Mineral resources

Observing and monitoring skillsQuestioning skills

Observing and Analyzing skills and Interpersonal skills

Maps and visit to sites

Map

Challenges and Solution• Challenges:• Lack of pictorial resources• Lack of resource books• Arrangement of a field trip

Solution:• Arrangement of books, pictures and maps• Wall maps in each section• Permission from Head and Parents

Conclusion

• By implementing my newly acquired 21st century teaching approaches, students will be empowered and will appreciate and gain a better knowledge of geography.

Resources

• The World Atlas • Maps of Pakistan• Internet • Newspapers• Magazines

Acknowledgement:

• Head Ma’am Huma Arshad• Computer teachers Ms. Iffat Ansari and Ms. Uzma

Anaam• Computer Assistant Sir Kamaran