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Highlights of January

	ERDC offered five training workshops in January, attended by 154 personnel from 65 institutions.(more)
	1^st module of Professional Teachers’ Certificate Course Winter Program 2008 concluded (more)
	Bulandi Leadership Camp organized by ERDC at Carlton Hotel for Delta Educational Trust. (more)
	ERDC conducted workshops on Reading Skills for Advance Religious Education Unit ITREB – Aga Khan Foundation. (more)

ERDC offered five training workshops in January 2009, attended by 154 personnel from 65 institutions.

These workshops are:

Creative Drama
Teach Speech
Every Child is Creative
Work Smart! Organize your workplace
Darsi Sabaq ki Tayyari

Creative Drama was a two-day (6 hours) workshop held on January 14 & 15, 2009. 25 teachers from 9 institutions participated in the workshop. This workshop was led by Ms Rumana Husain, a renowned artist and visiting faculty ERDC. The workshop was a unique opportunity for language teachers of pre-primary and primary grades to learn how to promote creative expression in classrooms. It included dramatic play, story enactment, imagination journeys and theatre games.

Teach Speech was a two-days (7 hours) workshop held on January 17 & 19, 2009. 29 teachers from 13 institutions participated in the workshop. This workshop was led by Ms Saulat Majid, visiting faculty ERDC. The workshop was an opportunity for English language teachers of primary and secondary grades to learn how to develop speaking skills of students. It included a battery of activities on oral communication skills and ready to apply classroom tips.

Darsi Sabaq ki Tayyari: Zindagi se bharpoor sabaq ka lutf uthaaein was a three-days (9 hours) workshop held on January 21 - 23, 2009. 35 teachers from 17 institutions participated in the workshop. This workshop was led by Mr. Zubair Sheikh, Project Manager ERDC. THE Urdu teachers to make effective and pleasurable lessons.

Work Smart! Organize your workplace was a two-day (6 hours) workshop held on January 24 & 26, 2009. 34 teachers from 17 institutions participated in the workshop. This workshop was led by Ms Ishrat Mateen, visiting faculty ERDC.A workshop to build a strong and systematic induction program for a smooth workplace.

Every Child is Creative was a one-day (3 hours) workshop held on January 31 & 19, 2009. 29 teachers from 12 institutions participated in the workshop. This workshop was led by Larysa Gul, visiting faculty ERDC . A workshop for teachers to tap children’s hidden dimensions. Learn how to nurture imaginative and creative children.

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1^st module of Professional Teachers’ Certificate Course,
Winter Program 2008 concluded in January.

The ongoing 9th batch of Winter Program has reached its second module – The Contents of Teaching. The last two course units of the 1^st module were offered in January as per the course plan. Ms Kanwal Laeeq, Project Manager and Master Trainer of ERDC led the course unit Art & Craft and Ms Tabassum Razi, Visiting Faculty ERDC conducted the course unit English Skills Development. The Art and Craft unit concluded on the display of theme boards prepared by the participants. A self assessment test of English language proficiency was introduced in English Skills Development unit to help participants measure their learning.

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Bulandi Leadership Camp organized by ERDC at
Carlton Hotel for Delta Educational Trust.

On the request of Delta Educational Trust, ERDC organized a full day off-site Camp at the Carlton Hotel on Sunday, the 11^th of Jan 2009 for the Management and Board of Governors of Bulandi School Project. Bulandi School – a project of Delta is a merger of three government schools and is under consultancy of ERDC. The motto of the camp was Leadership, Team bonding & Change.

There were seven participants from Bulandi Project and three facilitators from ERDC in the program. The program was led by Ms Kanwal Laeeq, Project Manager ERDC. Other two facilitators were Mr Salman Asif Siddiqui, Director ERDC and Ms Amna Meher, Master Trainer ERDC. The program included leadership games, team building activities and an inspirational movie. The keen involvement in the motivational exercises and collaborative strategies by the integrated project leaders is promising for the future of Bulandi School Project.

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ERDC conducted workshops on Reading Skills for Advance Religious Education Unit ITREB – Aga Khan Foundation

On the request of ITREB, ERDC conducted full-day workshops on Reading Skills for two separate groups of participants of Advance Religious Education Unit (ARE). ARE is the initiative of Ismaili Tareeqa Religious Education Board (ITREB). The participants of the program are the faculty of Religious Education Centres located in different parts of Sindh and Balochistan.

The workshops were held on two Sundays, 18^th & 25^th January, 2009 at Aga Khan College, Karimabad. Both the workshops were conducted by Mr. Salman Asif Siddiqui, Director ERDC and each attended by a group of 65 participants. The workshops introduced the strategies of efficient reading and offered practical activities to exercise critical reading skills.

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