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December 2008
   
Workshop: Teaching Grammar: Strategies that Work
Date : December 3 & 13, 2008
Time : Wed: 2:30pm to 5:30pm Sat: 10:00am to 1:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Bushra Khurram
Highlights :
  • Defining Grammar and Grammars
  • Place of Grammar Teaching in the Teaching of English Language
  • Effective presentation and explanation of Grammar
  • Creative Grammar Activities
  • Involving students of different abilities in Grammar Activities

 

   
   
Workshop: Teaching Poetry Writing
Date : December 5 & 6, 2008
Time : 2:30pm to 5:30pm(Fri) , 10:00am to 1:00pm(Sat)
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Saulat Majid
Highlights :
  • To understand the importance of poetry as a literature genre
  • Activities to reduce the writer's block and get student's going
  • To share a number of strategies for poetry writing
  • To discuss ideas to enhance children's creativity and imagination
  • Teaching poetry writing through pictures
  • Writing poetry in groups
  • Some activities to teach poetry in an interesting manner
   
November 2008
   
Workshop: Teaching Grammar: Strategies that Work
Date : November 27 & 28, 2008
Time : 2:30pm to 5:30pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Bushra Khurram
Highlights :
  • Defining Grammar and Grammars
  • Place of Grammar Teaching in the Teaching of English Language
  • Effective presentation and explanation of Grammar
  • Creative Grammar Activities
  • Involving students of different abilities in Grammar Activities

 

   
   
Workshop: Quran ki tadrees sargarmeeyon kay zaryee
Date : November 20 & 21, 2008
Time : 2:30pm to 5:30pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Rizwana Ghafoor
Highlights :
   
   
Workshop: Picture Talk
Date : November 15, 2008
Time : 10:00am to 1:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Saulat Majid
Highlights :
  • Scope of using pictures and visuals in classroom teaching
  • How to exploit visuals to teach languages
  • A rich variety of classroom activities involving pictures/visuals for language teaching
  • Ideas to create visuals for classroom use
  • Input on preservation and storage of pictures for future use
  • Ideas of how the art teacher may be pulled into the language teaching circle
   
   
Workshop: Urdu shaerey kaisay perhaen?
Date : November 12, 2008
Time : 2:30pm to 5:30pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Zubair Sheikh
Highlights :
   
   
Workshop: Tell me a story
Date : November 6, 8 & 10, 2008
Time : 2:30pm to 5:30pm Sat: 10:00am to 1:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Arwa Khuzaima
Highlights :
  • Importance of stories as a teaching tool
  • Storytelling to promote a feeling of well being
  • Make learning more concrete and meaningful through storytelling
  • Increase children’s willingness to communicate thoughts and feelings
  • Encourage active participation and cooperation among children
  • Increase verbal proficiency
  • Encourage use of imagination and creativity
  • Know the techniques of storytelling
  • A glimpse at puppetry and preparation of simple story aids
   
   
Workshop: Actions Speak Louder than Words: Non Verbal Clues for becoming an Effective Teacher
Date : November 1, 2008
Time : 9:30pm to 1:30pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Hina Kazmi
Highlights :
  • Significance of non verbal communication for teachers
  • Understand the appropriate and suitable body gestures of an effective teacher
  • Communicating emotional meanings through facial management to the learners
  • Personal appearance, dressing and accessories for the teachers
  • Usage of eye and touch communication of an effective teacher
  • Adjusting your voice for the class and using silence for the administration
   
October 2008
   
Workshop: Qawaid kion aur kaisay?
Date : October 30 & 31, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Zubair Hussain Sheikh
Highlights :
   
   
Workshop: Maths through Play
Date : October 22 - 24, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Rasheeda Murtaza
Highlights :
  • The importance of play in the development of children’s mathematical thinking
  • Identification of aims and objectives of mathematical development at the early childhood level
  • The main areas of mathematical development and their importance.
  • Vocabulary to which the young children need exposure
  • To help teachers to provide opportunities for children to explore and use maths throughout and learn in the ways that are natural
  • To carefully plan play activities, which provide sequenced learning experiences
   
   
Workshop: Developing Oral Skills in Children
Date : October 15 & 16, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Arwa Khuzaima
Highlights :
  • To help develop communicative skills amongst teachers and students
  • To develop conversational and negotiating skills
  • To develop skills in providing and seeking information
  • To develop fluency and accuracy
  • To improve pronunciation
  • To enhance skill integration
   
August 2008
   
Workshop: Discipline without Stress
Date : August 28, 29 & 30, 2008
Time : Thurs & Fri: 3:00 - 6:00 pm, Saturday: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Salman Asif Siddiqui
Highlights :
  • Understand major causes of discipline problems in classrooms
  • Identify factors of students’ motivation
  • Learn approaches to deal with various discipline problems
  • Know how teachers can promote sense of responsibility in students
  • Acquire tips to reduce instructional stress and manage classrooms with excellence
  • Learn to deal successfully with difficult students
  • Create collaborative learning environment
   
   
Workshop: Bachoon ka zakhera-e-alfaz kaisay barhain?
Date : August 25 & 27, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Zubair Sheikh
Highlights :
   
   
Workshop: Project based learning in Social Studies
Date : August 20 & 21 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Rakshanda Ovais
Highlights :
  • Concept and importance of project based learning
  • Steps involved in selecting and implementing projects in social studies classrooms
  • Ways to assess students' progress through project based learning
  • Scoring rubrics as effective tools to assess students' performance
   
   
Workshop: Creating Effective Classroom Displays
Date : August 18, 22 & 23, 2008
Time : Mon & Friday: 3:00 - 6:00 pm, Saturday: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Kanwal Laiq
Highlights :
  • Role of classroom displays in teaching and learning
  • Promoting learning through effective displays
  • Kinds of classroom displays
  • Achieving specific learning objectives of different subjects through effective displays
  • Ways to create effective classroom displays
  • Do's and don’ts of classroom displays
  • Display ideas for different subjects
   
   
Workshop: Khushkhati kaisay sekhain aur sikhain?
Date : August 15 & 16, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Shabana Basir
 
   
   
Workshop: Teaching of History
Date : August 11 & 13, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Khurram Ali Shafique
Highlights :
  • The aim of the workshop is to enable the participants to discover ways of learning history that are suitable to individual learning styles.
  • The areas of history focused in the workshop are general history as well as the history of Pakistan.
  • Kindly note that the workshop does NOT promise ready-made activities for your classroom. On the other hand it does propose to present you with a number of easy and effective ways for developing YOUR OWN personalized ways of teaching history.
  • The workshop offers an insight into history through Shafique's model of Multiple Intelligences (which is different from Howard Gardner's model in many ways).
   
   
Workshop: Successful Lesson Planning
Date : August 6, 7, & 8 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Kanwal Laiq
Highlights :
  • Principles of successful instructional planning
  • Phases of teacher planning and decision making
  • What contains a good lesson plan?
  • Writing appropriate instructional objectives
  • Preparing comprehensive and smart lesson plans
  • How to evaluate effectiveness of your lesson plan and lesson delivery
   
   
Workshop: Maths through Play
Date : August 4, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Rasheeda Murtaza
Highlights :
  • Identification of aims and objectives of mathematical development at the early childhood level.
  • The main areas of mathematical development and their importance.
  • Vocabulary to which the young children need exposure.
  • To help teachers to provide opportunities for children to use maths throughout and learn in the ways that are natural.
  • To carefully plan play activities, which provide sequenced learning experiences.
   
   
Workshop: Improving Parent-teacher Interaction
Date : August 2, 2008
Time : 9:30 am - 1:00 pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Salman Asif Siddiqui
Highlights :
  • Importance of parent-teacher relationship
  • Conducting successful parent-teacher meetings
  • Tips to improve the quality of parent-teacher interaction
  • Coping with difficult parents or parents with difficulties
  • Better ways for teachers to communicate their expectations to parents
   
July 2008
   
Workshop: The First Days at School
Date : July 30 - August 1, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Arwa Khuzaima
Highlights :
  • What is classroom management?
  • Reforming the culture in education
  • Establishing rules in the ECE classroom
  • Creating an effective classroom
  • Having fun with PAT
  • The modalities of teaching and learning to make learning more concrete
  • The tools of classroom management
   
   
Workshop: Sawalaat ka fun
Date : July 28, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Zubair Sheikh
 
   
   
Workshop: Essentials of Annual Planning
Date : July 25 & 26, 2008
Time : Friday: 3:00pm to 6:00pm, Saturday: 10:00am to 1:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Salman Asif Siddiqui
Highlights :
  • Role of annual planning in the management of a school
  • Basic steps of School Based Planning
  • Planning for varying durations
  • Developing the academic calendar
  • Guidelines for planning in curricular areas
  • Guidelines for planning in co-curricular areas
  • Planning for monitoring and evaluation
  • Indicators of a successful plan
   
   
Workshop: Puppets in a Classroom
Date : July 17, 18, 21, 23 & 24, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Yousuf Hussain
Highlights :
  • Motivating children to communicate and participate freely through puppets
  • How to make different types of puppets for classroom
  • Learn how to use and handle different puppets
  • Learn to create a puppet theater
   
   
Workshop: English for Every Teacher
Date : July 1-5 & 7-11, 2008
Time : 10:00am to 1:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Fareed Ahmed
Highlights :
  • To help teachers overcome their hesitation in speaking
  • To learn to speak in a non threatening environment through a rich variety of activities
  • To make participants move from guided/ controlled to free speech
  • To ensure that all participants have developed considerable fluency by the end of the course
  • Tips to improve vocabulary and pronunciation
  • Listening exercises, speaking games and videos
  • Learn how to give classroom instructions and feedback in English
   
June 2008
   
Workshop: Tajweed kay bunyadi Usool
Date : June 20, 21, 23 - 25, 2008
Time : 10:00am to 1:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Rizwana Ghafoor
 
   
   
Workshop: Etiquettes of Successful Office Managers
Date : June 6 & 9, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Mrs. Ishrat Mateen
Highlights :
  • Understanding the importance of etiquettes and mannerism in the office
  • Talk about your telephone manners
  • Handling conflict, angry calls and difficult visitors
  • Discipline and ethics - system of rules and orderly behaviour
  • Assessing your own personality
  • General office behaviour
   
   
Workshop: Creative Writing
Date : June 2, 4 & 5, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Rumana Hussain
Highlights :
  • Tips on Creative Writing
  • Major Components of Stories
  • Transporting the Reader
  • Beating a Writer's Block
  • Writing Exercises
  • Critical Analysis
   
May 2008
   
Workshop: Stress Management
Date : May 29 & 30, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Mrs. Ishrat Mateen
Highlights :Stress is an inevitable aspect of life, but continuous stress in your place of work could break you and wear you down resulting in unproductivity and inefficiency in your job. This workshop will equip you to manage stress effectively and work in a collegial manner with your colleagues. Important points of the workshop are:

" Understanding stress
" What causes stress in your place of work?
" How does stress affect your performance?
" Strategies to manage stress effectivelyDescribe reflective practice and its importance
Workshop: How to Raise a Child Who Loves to Read & Write
Date : May 19, 21 & 22, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Mr. Salman Asif Siddiqui
Highlights :
  • How children learn to read and write
  • What makes children interested or uninterested in reading and writing
  • Barriers to the development of reading and writing skills
  • Ways to help the reluctant reader
  • How to give children practical reasons for reading and writing
  • Useful tips and activities to ease the parents' job

 

Workshop: Ibtadaee jamatoon main Urdu ki tadrees
Date : May 14 - 16, 2008
Time :3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Mr. Zubair Hussain Shaikh
Highlights :
  • Natural process of language learning in children
  • Reasons for not writing
  • Children problems related to reading
  • How to take help from phonics?
  • Reading and writing activities for early classes
Workshop: Effective Teachers, Are Reflective Teachers
Date : May 7 & 8, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Ms. Rakshanda Ovais Shareef
Highlights :
  • Describe reflective practice and its importance
  • Differentiate between descriptive reflection and critical reflection
  • Identify the steps involved in reflective practice
Workshop: Etiquettes of Successful Office Managers
Date : May 2 & 5, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Mrs. Ishrat Mateen
Highlights :
  • Understanding the importance of etiquettes and mannerism in the office
  • Talk about your telephone manners
  • Handling conflict, angry calls and difficult visitors
  • Discipline and ethics - system of rules and orderly behaviour
  • Assessing your own personality
  • General office behaviour
   
April 2008
   
Workshop: English Language Testing: Ways and Means to Excellence
Date : April 25, 28 & 30, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Dr. Muhammad Abdul Wahid Usmani
Highlights :
  • Types of language tests
  • Analyzing current language testing strategies
  • Common errors in designing tests.
  • Backwash effect of testing
  • Designing effective English language tests
  • Evaluating the effectiveness of a test
   
Workshop: Kahani Kaisay Likhain
Date : April 23 - 24, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Zubair Hussain Shaikh
Highlights :
For Urdu language teachers of upper primary and lower secondary classes.
   
Workshop: Speaking in English
Date : April 16 - 18, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Fareed Ahmed
Highlights :
Overcoming hesitation in speaking English
How to follow spoken English with ease
Ways to develop fluency
Speaking activities and games
   
   
Workshop: Motivating Students to Learn
Date : April 11, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Rasheeda Murtaza
Highlights :
Understanding motivation and its types
Factors that affect students’ motivation
Factors that affect teachers’ motivation
How can teachers increase students’ motivation
Tips to engage every student
   
   
Workshop: Correct Way to Correct!
Date : April 9 & 10, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Mrs. Ishrat Mateen
Highlights :
Understanding the objective of correction
Problems teachers face in correction
Classifying different types of errors
Learners’ reaction about correction
Some effective methods of correction
Meaningful feedback on students’ written work
   
   
Workshop: Communication Skills for Teachers (Repeated)
Date : April 4 & 5, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Rasheeda Murtaza
 
   
   
Workshop: Tell me A Story
Date : April 2 & 3, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Arwa Khuzaima
Highlights :
Importance of stories as a teaching tool
Storytelling to promote a feeling of well being
Make learning more concrete and meaningful through storytelling
Increase children’s willingness to communicate thoughts and feelings
Encourage active participation and cooperation among children
Increase verbal proficiency
Encourage use of imagination and creativity
Know the techniques of storytelling
A glimpse at puppetry and preparation of simple story aids
   
March 2008
   
Workshop: Laughing Matters: Humor in the Classroom
Date : March 27 & 28, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Salman Asif Siddiqui
 
   
   
Workshop: Communication Skills for Teachers
Date : March 24 & 26, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Rasheeda Murtaza
 
   
   
Workshop: Understanding Arts
Date : March 20 & 21, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Rumana Husain
 
   
   
Workshop: Making Sense of Science Lessons
Date : March 17, 19 & 22, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Kanwal Laeeq
 
   
   
Workshop: Writing Students' Feedback: during and end term evaluation language(Repeated)
Date : March 14, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Hina Hussain Kazmi
 
   
   
Workshop: Writing Students' Feedback: during and end term evaluation language(Repeated)
Date : March 7, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Hina Hussain Kazmi

   
February 2008
   
Workshop: Writing Students' Feedback: during and end term evaluation language
Date : February 29, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Hina Hussain Kazmi
 
Highlights :
  • Importance of teacher talk
  • Effects of the use of positive language and comments by the teacher
  • Why teachers fail to leave positive prints on students memory
  • How to talk to be an encouraging teacher
  • Do's and Dont's of words on evaluation sheets
  • How to write comments with suitable language
   
   
Workshop: Tehreeree maharton ki nashonuma
Date : February 27 & 28, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Zubair Hussain Sheikh
 
Highlights :
  • Early stages of writing
  • Sentence structure
  • Types of writing
  • Process of creative writing
  • Story writing
  • Activities of writing for different classes
   
   
Workshop: Quran Kee Tadrees Sargarmeeyon kay zaryee
Date : February 14, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Rizwana Ghafoor
 
Highlights :
  • Importance of teaching Quran at school level
  • Quranic curriculum
  • Problems in Quran teaching
  • Activities and projects
  • Use of computers in teaching of Quran
   
   
Workshop: Questioning in Class Matters
Date : February 13, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Rasheeda Murtaza
Highlights :
  • The art of questioning
  • Asking better question - seeking better answers
  • Creating an inquiring classroom
  • How to promote genuine learning and understanding
   
   
Workshop: Learning to Teach
Date : February 6 - 8, 2008
Time : 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Kanwal Laeeq
Highlights :
  • Understanding the major aims of teaching
  • Basic concepts about how children learn
  • Role of a teacher in creating successful learning environment
  • Modes of teaching and learning
  • Skills and qualities of an effective teacher
  • Basic tips on how to plan a lesson
  • Basic tips on how to manage a classroom
  • How great teachers learn teaching

 

   
   
Workshop: Speaking in English
Date : February 1 & 2, 2008
Time : 2:30pm to 5:30pm (Fri), 9:30pm to 1:30pm (Sat)
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Fareed Ahmed
Highlights :
  • Overcoming hesitation in speaking English
  • How to follow spoken English with ease
  • Ways to develop fluency
  • Speaking activities and games
   
January 2008
   
Workshop: Usoolay Imla
Date : January 30 & 31, 2008
Time : 2:30pm to 5:30pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Zubair Hussain Sheikh
 
   
   
Workshop: Coping successfully with Mixed Ability Classes
Date : January 25 & 26, 2008
Time : 2:30pm to 5:30pm (Fri), 9:30pm to 1:30pm (Sat)
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Ishrat Mateen
Highlights :
  • Understand the concept of a mixed ability class
  • Analyzing a mixed ability class
  • A frustrated teacher in a mixed ability class
  • Problems students face in a mixed ability class
  • Teaching children through their learning style/multiple intelligences
  • Developing a teaching approach to deal with diversity
  • Activities to handle a mixed ability class