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February 2009
   
Effective Questioning Skills
Date : February 28, 2009
Time : 9:30am to 1:30pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Kanwal Laiq

Highlights :

  • How teachers can use their questioning skill to motivate learners and develop better understanding
  • Introduction to effective questioning techniques
  • Understand the different types of questions and their purposes in classroom teaching
  • Asking better question seeking better answer
  • Creating an inquiring classroom and promote genuine learning
   
Cooperative Learning
Date : February 26 & 27, 2009
Time : 2:30pm to 5:30pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Rakshanda Ovais

Highlights :

  • Describe cooperative learning strategy and its benefits to maximize learning
  • Identify elements of cooperative learning
  • Learn and apply classroom activities that facilitate cooperative learning in any lesson
   
Improving Parent-Teacher Interaction
Date : February 21, 2009
Time : 9:30am to 1:30pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Salman Asif Siddiqui

Highlights :

  • Importance of parent-teacher relationship
  • Guidelines for 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
   
Project Work in Science
Date : February 19, 20 & 23, 2009
Time : 2:30pm to 5:30pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Kanwal Laiq

Highlights :

  • Aims & objectives of Project Based Learning
  • Importance of integrating project work in science lessons
  • Guidelines for planning science projects for different grades
  • Characteristics of an effective project work
  • Learning the art of using commonly available resources in uncommon ways
  • Role of a science teacher as project manager
   
Guidelines for Making a Good Test Paper
Date : February 13 & 14, 2009
Time : 2:30pm to 5:30pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Kanwal Laiq

Highlights :

  • Identifying the characteristics of good and bad test papers
  • What every teacher must consider while making a test paper
  • Basic steps of making a valid and reliable test paper
  • Introduction of the tools for qualitative analysis of test papers
  • Preparing Test Items Banks for different subjects
   
Imtihani parchay ki tayyari aur janch
Date : February 9, 11 & 12 2009
Time : 2:30pm to 5:30pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Mr. Zubair Husain Shaikh
 
   
Into the Realms of Reading
Date : February 5 -7, 2009
Time : Thu & Fri: 2:30pm to 5:30pm Sat: 10:00am - 1:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Arwa Khuzaima

Highlights :

  • For children to enjoy literature
  • For students to develop an innate love for reading
  • To open a window to the world in the child's heart
  • Intensive reading & extensive reading
  • Enhancing co-operative learning through reading
   
Understanding Children With Special Needs
Date : February 2 & 4, 2009
Time : 2:30pm to 5:30pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Amina Saeed

Highlights :

  • What are special needs?
  • How to understand what special needs are
  • How to identify children with special needs at home/in school
  • Help parents and teachers guide children with special needs
  • Facilities available for children with special needs
  • How to make long term programs work for children with special needs
  • How to help children with special needs interact socially
  • A dialogue with caregivers/teachers/parents of children with special needs
January 2009
   
Workshop: Every Child is Creative
Date : January 31, 2009
Time : 10:00am to 1:00pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Larysa Gul

Highlights :

  • Let's define creativity
  • Help children express creativity
  • I want to be creative!
  • Keys of creativity
  • Mind mapping
  • Droodles
  • Half of anything or mini-maxi
  • Compare things!
  • “What if” technique

 

   
   
Workshop: Play and the Young Child
Date : January 29 & 30, 2009
Time : 2:30pm to 5:30pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Rasheeda Murtaza

Highlights :

  • The definition and the importance of play at the early childhood level
  • Why do children play?
  • Characteristics and types of play
  • Why and when must a teacher intervene in the children's play?
  • What are the teacher's roles and responsibilities in the particular scenario?
   
   
Workshop: Work Smart! Organize Your Workplace
Date : January 24 & 26, 2009
Time : 10:00am to 1:00pm(Sat) , 2:30pm to 5:30pm(Mon)
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Ishrat Mateen

Highlights :

  • What is an organized office?
  • Being organized is a process.
  • How to avoid clutter in your office.
  • Discover how to get organized and stay organized.?
  • Tips on how to work smart.
  • Some ultimate solutions to attaining a proficient, organized office.
  • The concepts of use it or lose it.
   
   
Workshop: Darsi Sabaq Ki Tayyari: Zindagi say bharpoor sabaq ka lutf uthaain
Date : January 21 - 23, 2009
Time : 2:30pm to 5:30pm(Fri)
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Zubair Sheikh

 

   
   
Workshop: Teach Speech
Date : January 17 & 19, 2009
Time : 9:30am to 1:30pm(Sat) , 2:30pm to 5:30pm(Mon)
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Saulat Majid

Highlights :

  • How to break natural reluctance in speaking a second language
  • Teacher's role when students speak
  • A range of speaking activities for primary and secondary classes
  • Ideas to use as prompts to make students speak
  • Separate activities with focus on fluency / accuracy
  • Using AV aids to generate whole class discussions
   
   
Workshop: Creative Drama
Date : January 14 & 15, 2009
Time : 2:30pm to 5:30pm
Venue : ERDC - Karachi
Resource Person : Rumana Hussain

Highlights :

  • Creative drama is a powerful teaching tool that can be used to develop children's written, visual and oral literacy leading to better academic results right across the curriculum.
  • Creative drama can include dramatic play, story enactment, imagination journeys, theatre games, music, and dance.
  • Creative drama's process is more important rather than the product.
  • The Creative drama workshop will provide ideas for developing / finding simple plots, dynamic characters, and a straightforward message.
  • Ideas for a prop bag will be shared. Performances enacted.