I am Imrana Ibrahim
My profession is teaching which is as facilitating students.
I am a science teacher for secondary students. I have a masters in chemistry and started teaching students of grade 6th just after completion of my masters. I have been teaching for 12 years which shows my love for this profession. I use to work in private sector and was able to teach students of ages between 11-14 years .Right now I am a chemistry teacher of grade 9th (14 to 15 years ). I love to teach general science to students (11 years to 13 years ) because of lot of activity based teaching
I live in Karachi, Sind. My city has rich and mixed culture.
I have 2 sisters, 2 brothers 2nieces and 4 nephews. I used to live with my parents and recently got married. I am older than my sisters.
I love to find out new ways to educate my students in an interesting way. I use internet for searching interesting exercises, experiments which explain science subjects in innovative way. I like music, reading and love to go for shopping and hang out with friends
My Goals for the Future
Although I have spent many years teaching science, I am still looking for ways to improve my teaching .It’s my wish that to create awareness about environmental issues in my students which I try to do through my teaching, not just in my schools but also in my region. I believe for this we must have same curricula for all institutes as I have observed many schools in private sectors are creating awareness in their own way.
Description Of Institution
I am working in a private school Meritorious Schools Network. It is based on a bungalow. It has classes from 4th till matric.
We have a staff of 33 teachers. Quantity of trained teachers is less but our management do hire qualified teachers holding bachelors and masters degrees.
In-spite of having matric board our school focuses on activity based learning .We provide a lot of hands on activities.
Needs of Institution
Trained teachers should be hired.
MASTER ACTION PLAN (MAP)
Goal:
To develop an attitude of the responsibility of all groups,
to protect our environment through the correct handling of waste
Grade level: Elementary
level (2,3 students from each class) 15 students
Place: classroom of the
school.
Day 1…4 hours
Objective:
3 R’s.reduce, reuse ,recycle
To disseminate knowledge about recycling.
Create awareness about importance of recycling.
To know how much damage is caused by garbage in school.
To distinguish recycled object and thrown away object.
To identify recycling symbol
Methodology:
Ice breaking activity: four corners card game
Brain storming : Students going to write their
interpretation on 3 R’s
Multimedia presentation: explanation of the components of
trash thrown in dustbin.
Discussion on the film shown .
Jigsaw activity: A reading material on importance of
recycling will be provided .
Take away :worksheets on recycling
Resources used :
Multimedia
Charts to display
Handouts
Day 2….4hours
Objective:
trash is cash!!!!!
Identify
types of waste generated by human activities .
Become
familiar with the ways to deal with types of waste.
Making the
students responsible for expanding the knowledge among other
fellows.(Environment friendly).
Methodology:
Group work: Students
will be divided in to two groups and
material on biodegradable(green group) and non_biodegradable (grey group)substance
will be provided.
A
questionnaire will be given to each student in which they have to give answers
related to the material provided.
Distinguishing
recycled material and trash.
Many items
will be displayed and student will be haing green and grey buckets to collect
material in it.Winner would be the one who collects more items in a correct
dustbin.
Badges will
be given to students named as “environment friendly”
Slides on
waste material and its solution will be shown.breakout session (discussion)
from every participant .
Material:
Plastic
gloves for picking up trash.
Green and
grey bins
Multimedia
Note: a check list would be given in
which each student have to check about the knowledge of waste management among
people living in their area
Day 3: 4 to 5 hours
To take
students to a recycling center (Gul bhahao).A reflection paper will be provided
which they have to fill up after the visit.
Objective: to facilitate optimum learning
experience of students through recycling center.
Day 4 : 4 hours
Event :A poster competition in the school.
Chief guest will be invited to check students’s performance and select the best
one from every class.EF (environment friendly) students going to organize and
disseminate the knowledge related to it .
Rewarding
Shields will be given to EFs by the chief guests .1
Day 5 :
What to do next???
A sum up session
will be conducted with teachers and environment friendly students.
Issues/strengths
will be discussed
Their
reflection will be taken in which suggestions will be asked.
Students
will be writing essays to a local newspaper.
Further
steps including compost formation will be discussed.Teachers will be encouraged
to implement environment education in their teaching .
Focus:
Overall ,the
master action plan is about:
Activity
based learning .
Project
based learning.
Simple to
complex.
Dissemination
of knowledge Students level to community level.
Provide on-going
support to school for waste management.
A first step
towards change in attitude among students to keep their environment clean
Assessment :
Formative Assessment : Assessment of the student will be on
going through mind maping,jigsaw activities, brain storming, questionnaire and
breakout sessions.
Summative Assessment:
Posters showing
the process of waste management.
Separate
dustbins for the trash and recyclable objects.
Articles/Essays
of the students for the newspaper.
Tour of the
school.
Budget :
Dustbins for each class, ground and
corridors, plastic trash bags …100 $
Charts ,baskets,posters for the
session ---------------100 $
Refreshments for the sessions……………………………….50 $
Arrangement for the trip to recycling center……..100 $
Bus ,lunch,writing material.
Badges and shields for environmental friendly students…50 $
Prizes for the poster competition ……………………… 100$
Max Warburg Reflection
Max Warburg courage foundation visit was encouraging and knowledgeable . The visit was important to me as I has given me a new vision of celebrating courage. If we observe we have many stories like Max around us and it’s important to impart those stories among common people or fellows .
Max Warburg courage foundation visit was encouraging and knowledgeable . The visit was important to me as I has given me a new vision of celebrating courage. If we observe we have many stories like Max around us and it’s important to impart those stories among common people or fellows .
It
was also encouraging to know that how Max‘s friends after so many years joined
hands and are working together for the betterment of the community. I have also
learned that how a small step can be taken to disseminate positivity among
people.
I
can also motivate my students to write their courage stories not only by
writing essays but through dialogue writing .students can also share their
stories through a panel discussion in which one student can act as an anchor
other ones will share their experiences and some can work as journalists. This
practice can enhance social awareness in them. This type of health or social
issues should be taught beside academic content because these topics are related
to our daily life (nature0 and one cannot ignore it. It is very important that
our teaching should relate to real life whether its an academic content or
social content.
Overall,
Max’s story was very inspiring and gave us a new vision.
Washington D.C. Reflection
A trip to Washington DC was a surprising tour for me in many
ways. The historical places, food and recognition being a Pakistani at state
department was marvelous.
In this short tour of three days we learned about the
restoration of historical places which highlights the beauty of the US capital.
On day one, there was a monument tour which gave us the overview of the city.
We were able to observe the Martin Luther king monument, Einstein memorial,
Lincoln memorial.
It was a great
learning experience for all of us.
On day two we met Brent Beemer at state department, there was
a good discussion about our experiences in US and the implementation of MAP in
Pakistan. Through this discussion I realized the importance of such cultural
exchange program. Next day we went to Russell &
Cannon Congressional Office Buildings and visited the Capitol. Through this
visit I got to know that restoring such historical events are easy to
demonstrate to the new generation as well as the tourists instead of telling
them about it through history books.
Last but not the least the food in “Kabob Palace” reminded
us the taste of our homeland.
PELP REFLECTION:
Before joining this PELP group I took it as a teacher training program but it was not only a training .This tour gave me a new way of taking my profession on another level.
I am quite sincere with my teaching profession but I have not actually participated into something which is called as action based teaching or something which can contribute the learning to a community level.
During this course I learned several methods of teaching kids like
Varieties of teaching techniques.
Introduction of environmental ethics.
Learning through fun activities.
Making students sharing their success stories (The Max Warburg Courage Curriculum).
A lot of learning also took place outside our classroom by observing US culture .
My MAP is about environment education and I observe the practice of common people here.
The most important thing is that I learned to “think aloud “ during these classes which I was not used to be and after Christie Sweeney ’s class I got the confidence that I can also conduct teachers training which would be a new step for me .
Overall, it was a great learning experience and I am eager to implement my action plan (waste management ) in school. Due to module sessions and MAP queens’ help the MAP was much easier task for me rather a tough and impossible to implement one.
I am thankful o all the teachers who helped us in broadening our vision and a special thanks to Blakeman Allen who was there all the time to help us.
Mid-MAP Report
Stage 1 …......The school where MAP would be implemented is SOS Hermann Gmeiner school .Its a big school for the welfare of orphan children. So far negotiations has been done with the head mistress of the school .Students are quite active and she suggested that students from 8th grade should be chosen for the project as 9th and 10th grade students would be busy for the preparation of their final board exams. The head mistress also insisted that the teachers should be included in the workshop (earlier I wanted to conduct workshop with students only) .
Mid-MAP Report
Stage 1 …......The school where MAP would be implemented is SOS Hermann Gmeiner school .Its a big school for the welfare of orphan children. So far negotiations has been done with the head mistress of the school .Students are quite active and she suggested that students from 8th grade should be chosen for the project as 9th and 10th grade students would be busy for the preparation of their final board exams. The head mistress also insisted that the teachers should be included in the workshop (earlier I wanted to conduct workshop with students only) .
So with mutual discussion its decided that the workshop along with an event on poster competition on recycling would be held in January 2014.
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