My
Profession:
Presently
my assignment is to supervise 33 Government Colleges for Elementary
Teachers (GCETs) with attached Lab Schools all over Punjab .
DSD has over 6000 Prospective teachers enrolled and a strength of lab school students around 12000
.GCETs are affiliated with
different Universities and Boards for Degrees & Diplomas.
Major Responsibilities:
-
Supervising Pre Service Teacher Education in 33 GCETs (Government colleges for elementary Teachers of Punjab
- Initiating and introducing new degrees and Diplomas in GCETs
- Organization, Management and execution of trainings for Principals ,Admin & Ministerial and teaching faculty of GCETs and Lab School Teacher
- Coordination with Partners
- Coordination with Universities
- Internal Accreditation of GCETs
- Managing Data Base of GCETs
- Revamping of GCETs
- Developed Quality Assurance Mechanism for GCETs
- Ranking of GCETs
- Ranking of GCET faculty by Principal and Prospective
- Ranking of Lab School
- Preparation and Implementation of Academic Calendar
- Planning and Execution co curricular activities of GCETs at district, Divisional and Provincial level across Punjab
- Planning and coordination of Quarterly Principals meeting
- Conduct and monitoring PD Days in GCETs for Professional Development
- Institutional Training ,Mentoring and Monitoring Plan in GCETs and Lab School
- Trainings and follow up of ADE launching GCETs for the capacity Building of Principals ,faculty members in collaboration with Pre Step /USAID Teacher Education
- Development of CIPs for ADE Launching GCETS
- Development Plans for GCETS
- Lesson study and development of CDs in GCETs and lab School (2 Cds in a month for GCET faculty and Lab School teachers according to academic calendar )
- Continuous assessment of Prospective Teachers and Lab School Students subject wise
- Observation of GCETs and Lab School for monitoring, supervision and follow up on Skype
- Planning and Execution of On line short Courses for Principals ,faculty members of GCETs in collaboration with Intel education
- Research work with USAID Teacher Education
- Nominations for Trainings
- Development of web content
Punjab
is the largest and most developed, populous, and prosperous province of
Pakistan with approximately 55% of the country's total population. Lahore has
been the capital of Punjab for a thousand years. It is Punjab's main cultural,
historical, administrative and economic center. Historically, the Punjab region
has been the gateway to the Indian subcontinent for people from Greece, Central
Asia, Iran and Afghanistan. Due to its strategic location, it has been
dominated by various empires and invading armies throughout history, including
the Indus Valley Civilization, Vedic civilization, Persians, Mauryans, Greeks,
Scythians, Kushans, Guptas, Arabs, Turks, Mongols, Timurids, Mughals, Afghans,
Sikhs and the British.
Family:
I
am a married woman with three loving and cute daughters studying in prestigious
institutions of Lahore. My husband is working as an Assistant Vice President in
Soneri Bank Islamabad. I was selected through a rigorous screening and
selection process as a Course Coordinator in DSD out of 29 candidates. I then
shifted to Lahore on 1st July, 2012.Gradually my daughters also moved
to Lahore after completing their ongoing academic session .My husband is still
working in Islamabad. I love long drives and travelling. I enjoy to taste
variety of food item.
Goals
for Future :
Different
initiatives have been taken to upgrade the
Teacher Education in Punjab e.g.
CPD of In Service and Pre Service, Material development, Quality Assurance and
Research and Development but still there certain challenges and future goals to
achieve which are under process e.g
• Become a policy making organization
• Develop Strategic Plan for Teacher
Education
• To become a certification and
licensing body
• To work towards Accreditation of
in-service and Pre-Service Teacher Education Programs
• To enhance Quality Assurance
Mechanism for Pre Service and In Service
• To De- Centralize Trainings to
district level and use DSD as a Control Room for passing out policy guidelines
and Support
Institution
Description :
DSD is ISO certified
apex professional development organization, whose scope of work includes
catering to the training needs of Pre Service and In Service Teachers in the
province. The scope of work for in-service training is achieved through process
of conducting training needs assessment (TNA), aligning training methodology to
changing needs, development of training material, mentoring, feedback and
follow up.
For Pre Service DSD is
offering degrees and diplomas in teacher education in its teacher training collages.
Under the USAID Pre-step project recently innovative Bachelors of honor degree
has been introduces in twenty of these collages with innovative courses/modules
in content, pedagogy and practicum. The global best practices have been taken
into consideration especially inputs from teachers college, Columbia university
in designing this program.
In Addition DSD scope
of work also includes the following areas of teacher education in the largest
province of the country, The Punjab:
• In-Service Training & Material
Development process
• Continuous Professional Development
(CPD) Framework
• Quality Assurance Monitoring &
Evaluation
• Research and Development
Background:
The
challenges in capacity building of education sector in Pakistan in general and
Punjab in particular involve establishing standards for teachers, education
managers and educational institutions .This coupled with an accountability
system based on accreditation of teacher education programs for institutional
strengthening and putting in place teacher licensing and certification regime
will set a benchmark to work towards achieving highest standards in terms of
both quantity and quality targets set for the educational system in Punjab. The
standards for curriculum of primary ,Elementary and secondary level content
have been established .The standards for teachers and Teacher Education Institution
have also been developed .The standards for some teaching courses in Pre
Service Teacher Education have been developed .However there is a need to
develop the vision of standard based education for all area of teaching
learning process among curriculum developers, educational Leaders ,teacher
educators and teachers .The master action plan covers important issue of dissemination
of vision of standard based
education . The standards can be useful to guide
all other system components.
MAP Goal:
To
develop the vision of Teaching force on Standard Based Education. Major goal of
the plan is to develop capacity building of teaching force on Standard Based Education
in the largest province of Pakistan on
local context by learning from global best practices
Objectives
·
To Develop Inter Culture professional Practice
·
To
promote International Collaboration for
enhancing quality education
·
To
explore the practices of developed countries on Standard Based Education
·
To
explore standards for all system components
·
To
develop and disseminate the vision of Standard Based Education among different
stake holders
Timing of the Training:
Duration:
Two days
for data analysis and two days for dissemination of vision of standards
Timing:
8.30-3:00pm (1st phase)
8.30-05:00pm (2nd phase)
Resource Persons:
PELP Alumni
·
Aneela
Hasan
Course
coordinator (Pre Service)
Directorate
of staff Development Lahore
·
Saira Andleeb
Govt College for
Elementary Teachers Sharqpur
Sheikhupura.
·
Kiran Mahmood
Govt College for
Elementary Teachers Kot Lakhpat Lahore.
PROGRAM FRAMEWORK
The
program consists of two phases
The training program will consist of two phases
as schedule given below
Phase 1
In first Phase Two
days Workshop on exploring standard based education will be organized. The
experts in the area of the standards from mentor clusters and curriculum
developers will be selected to participate in workshop. They will explore and
analyze the standard based education on the basis of documents analysis and
will prepare recommendations
Procedures
1. Documents and material analysis by identified
experts through structured workshop
2. After Compiling Standards disseminate vision
of standard based education among teacher Educators of Punjab
Time Schedule for workshop
Day 1
Topic
|
Time
|
Resource person
|
Opening and introduction
|
8:30-9:00
|
Aneela Hasan
|
Why standards
|
9:00-10:00
|
Saira Andleeb
|
Standards overview
|
10:00-11:00
|
Kiran Mahmood
|
Break
|
11:00-11:30
|
Saira Andleeb
|
Role of standards
|
11:30-01:00
|
Kiran Mahmood
|
Lunch break
|
01:00-2:00
|
Saira Andleeb
|
Internet searching for standards of
developed countries for school leaders
|
2:00-3:00
|
Kiran Mahmood
|
Through my own
experiences in life I have been able to define the true meaning of courage
but Max WarBurg achievement gave it another aspect that courage comes from the strength of mind or will which Max showed
while struggling and fighting against disease . The experience of visiting
MaxWarBurg Institute at North Eastern University was very inspiring for
me .Story of MaxBurg is based on courage .He faced the challenge of life but
not left hope. By only and only
courage he gave everlasting
contribution for the country in form of student involvement in curriculum
development .He set an example and a way
forward for all students by fighting against
disease with courage and even then gave new intervention in education
system .
Though Academic
content is very important to learn for becoming professional and productive
citizen but other aspects of development
like social and emotional are equally important for character building. God has
gifted each human being with one or more skills and multiple inelegances. These
potential and skills can be explored and polished by giving equal opportunities
on different stages of development ..
In addition celebration
of courage is very important to acknowledge the contribution of work done and also
motivating other peoples to do something special as Max did. The students in my
country have lot of potential and ability .By writing essays, poems ,role plays
,participating in debates speeches ,or poster preparation or even just by
promoting them to participate in class either through question answers or any
king of presentation creates courage in them to move step ahead I would like to make Pakistani students to
participate in essay writing for Maxburg foundation which will be the new
initiative in my country for involvement of student in curriculum development. Through
this program children can become a change agent in my country. Their cognitive
and writing skills can also be improved by participating in MaxWarBurg
foundation essay writing initiative.
In future by
communicating and participating in community welfare matters they can be
helpful in finding the solution of issues like environmental ethics, pollution,
health and hygiene for betterment of community.
I think student must be encourage from early
stage of entering in education system to
speak or participate in class and teacher must encourage the student for
developing confidence in them .Their work either assignment ,art work ,computer
skill must be appreciated in class ,by giving them recognition titles on daily
or weekly basis. By such types of steps
the students can get courage in every stage of life and will ultimately
bring positive impact in personality
development
The trip to
Washington Dc was the most tremendous experience ever been in my life. The city
of Washing was very graceful and amazing. Here I found a collection of
historical places, monuments, memorials and monuments. In the evening through
trolley tour I saw, the Lincolin Memorial, congress ,Capitol Building, White House,
Peace institute ,Botanic Gardens ,Korean war monuments World ,war II monument,
Washington monument Arlington Memorial and
Jefferson Memorial ,King Marten Loather Memorial and Potomac River .
Our delegation
were honored by state department where very productive discussion was carried
out .In the process different initiatives with commitments to education and
a from US Government to support
developing countries were introduced .Talking
about Alumni Conference fascinated me more where implemented plan can be shared
in different forms of presentation like
symposium, research paper can be helpful in disseminating the
initiatives taken by PELP project .It was also shared by Pakistani delegates
that different reforms can be taken into
account for upgrading quality education in prevailing system of education on the basis of knowledge
,skills and learning experience we got through PELP Project .
In Smithsonian
Institute we visited Natural History museum and American History Museum and castle.
I studies and learnt the excellent way of preserving fosils of different
animals and plants of different era of earth. Display of Big bang theory was
displayed on LCD .We also saw time clock .In natural history museum we got an
excellent opportunity to see all types of Gems and pearls. Golds of
different regions were also displayed.
Mineral like calcite, gypsum were also seen .by visiting this museum I got an
exposure of different discipline including history ,science ,chemistry ,physics
,social studies and geography. Here the specialty
of different regions was taken into account.
In American
History Museum we learn about the development of Americans in different periods
in the field of industry, IT, culture musical instrument .The way of Preserving
and presenting history was very marvelous.
The most
pleasurable and a wonderful surprise was the tour of Capitol Building. The
building is marvelous piece of architecture and history.
We had a meeting with representative of Senator related to Health and Education.
We presented the reflection of training and activities. We updated them
Pakistani education systems and reforms done in teaching and training .We also
shared our efforts to improve quality education .The participants also asked
some question related to education and health and approached structured systems
and procedures in all areas In the
evening I enjoyed shopping with my colleagues in Pentagon city .
The institute helped in understanding the practices in US for achieving
quality standards. This program helped in understanding better knowledge
of Culture, ethos, systems and life in the US to help reduce the gap in mutual
understanding of each other’s cultural context. . The frequent exchange of
ideas through development based on each other’s experience, expertise and
keeping in view the local contexts have given further insight into the minds
and thinking at individual and institutional levels. The mutual intellectual have
lead to better understanding of the cultural and ideological context and
professional growth of individuals to further advance the mutually beneficial
goals for development of education in both countries in addition to design new programs and initiative in the
field of education through this training.
My current organization intends
to enhance collaborative partnership with neighboring, developing and developed
countries to capitalize on the strengths of the institutions in teacher education
and this institute will be helpful in achieving this goal. It would strengthen institutional
capacity and is likely to have medium-to-long term quality impact through
implementing process.
There was heterogeneous group
including teachers, teacher educators and administrator who participated in
PELP Summer institute .The modules selected met the needs of each individual
specially curriculum & instruction
pedagogical practices, environmental ethics, school initiatives for community
support and involvement of parents and students in curriculum development . All the
areas covered will ultimately impact our efforts in enhancing classroom
practices in schools.
By working on different areas the teacher education explored new
dimensions and and implementing by re
tailoring in Pakistani culture and scenario will uplift quality education in
Pakistan .However the exposure of US People ,culture ,education and institutions
are prompted through PELP.
Participation in the institute also provided me an opportunity to
understand the intricacies of management of education sector in the US and this
can be utilized once back in Pakistan to meet the challenges faced by Pakistan
in this regard. The challenges in capacity building of education sector in
Pakistan in general and Punjab in particular involve establishing standards for
teachers, education managers, educational institutions and other all essential components
of education system .This coupled with an accountability system based on
accreditation of teacher education programs for institutional strengthening and
putting in place teacher licensing and certification regime have set a benchmark to work towards achieving
highest standards in terms of both quantity and quality targets set for the
educational system in Punjab. This institute has developed my capacity to
contribute in efforts for all above mention future goals.
Such information exchange and
technical advisory may be continued through exchange visits, seminars and
webinars (web-based seminars), special advisory groups on issues like improving
standard based education, assessment techniques, curriculum development,
professional development etc. Student and faculty exchange can also be a key
instrument for this knowledge exchange as well.
However there need to develop more structured
mechanism and strategies for the sustainability of the project initiatives
either through Alumni or Project officials through involvement of
administrative bodies, apex organization
and other private and public sector participants organizations as
well .Though this is the longest
programs but impacts are not so observed in Pakistan like working with other partners on different
projects .The dissemination and
awareness of the project initiatives
need more attention.
Day
2
Topic
|
Time
|
Resource person
|
Reflection day one
|
8:30-09:00
|
Saira Andleeb
|
Data analysis USA(states)
|
09:00-10:00
|
Kiran Mahmood
|
Data analysis Germany+ France
|
10:00-11:00
|
Saira Andleeb
|
Tea break
|
11:00-11:30
|
Kiran Mahmood
|
Data analysis Australia + Canada+
recommendations
|
11:30-01:00
|
Saira Andleeb
|
Lunch break
|
01:00-02:00
|
Kiran Mahmood
|
Recommendations and self-assessment
|
02:00-03:00
|
Saira Andleeb
|
Phase 2
In second phase one day
orientation for dissemination of standard Based education will be organized. Representatives
from teacher educators from all GCETs of Punjab and curriculum developers will
participate in orientation.
Day 1
Topic
|
Time
|
Resource person
|
Opening and introduction
|
8:30-09:00
|
Aneela Hasan
|
Why standards
|
09:00-09:30
|
Saira Andleeb
|
Standards overview
|
09:30-10:30
|
Kiran Mahmood
|
Role of standards
|
10:30-11:00
|
Saira Andleeb
|
Break
|
11:00-11:30
|
Kiran Mahmood
|
Data analysis USA(states)
|
11:30-01:00
|
Saira Andleeb
|
Lunch break
|
01:00-02:00
|
Kiran Mahmood
|
Data analysis Germany+ France
|
02:00-03:00
|
Saira Andleeb
|
Data analysis Australia + Canada
|
03:00-04:00
|
Kiran Mahmood
|
Recommendations + presentations
|
04:00-05:00
|
Saira Andleeb
|
Material:
Material related to practices of developed
countries will be collected. Standards of different states of US of all the
components of the system
Charts,
Markers, scotch tape, sticking tape, Multimedia,video
clips, Note books and all basic stationary
Venue:
DSD, GCETs
Participants:
Experts
in the area of standards will participate in workshop. Teachers, teacher educators
and curriculum developers participate
COMPLETION OF TRAINING PROGRAM
ü AWARD/APPRECIATION
ü On successful completion of the training,
participants will be awarded with certificates by
Assessment:
·
Self-assessment
Performa’s
·
Visiting primary
classes and observing the standard based education
·
visiting pre-service teachers classes in Mathematics science
and Islamic studies
Follow Up:
The focal person/representative of Teacher
Training College will disseminate this training to remaining faculty members of
their respective colleges
Monitoring and Evaluation of the training:
All the respective institutions will be
informed the date to conducting training on the “vision of standard based
education” on professional development day by their reprentatives. All the
events will be monitored on line on skype.
Targeted Outcome:
Throughout the two phases of training /
workshop the teachers will explore standards develop the vision of standards
based educations
BUDGET:
ITEMS
|
DESCRIPTION
|
APPROXIMATE
COST
|
Charts, markers, note books, lead pencils,
rubbers, ball points
|
For writing and presentation
purposes
|
150$
|
A4 size paper ream and Printed documents on standards for different
countries
|
for analysis , review and
understanding of standards
|
50$
|
Daily allowances for forty
persons
|
Experts from all over the
Punjab will be called for the training and will be given daily allowance
according to their pay scales
|
750$
|
Traveling allowances for
forty persons
|
Experts from all over the
Punjab will be called for the training purpose and their travelling
expenditures will be afforded by organizers
|
500$
|
Refreshment
|
200$
|
|
Fuel
|
For power generator
|
100$
|
Grand
total
|
1750$
|
|
Best of luck !
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