Rubina Taj

PAKISTANI

I am miss Rubina Taj,belonging to beautiful village of Kakul,city Abbottabad KPK Pakistan.

I am blessed having my parents alive and have only one sister. I have done my Master degree in Pakistan Studies and Bachelor of Education also.I am working as subject specialist at Govt Girls Higher secondary school Oghi Mansehra KPK. I am directly selected by PSC of KPK.I am teaching to 12 stander.

In my last session one of my student got 45 marks out of 50 in Pakistan studies. I like reading books on history and politics. I love traveling. I want to see the beauties of nature.I want to be a good educator and a good administrator.

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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; Urdu formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province and alternatively known by various other names, is one of the four provinces of Pakistan, located in the north-west of the country. It borders the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) to the west and south, Gilgit–Baltistan to the north-east, Azad Kashmir to the east and Punjab and the Islamabad Capital Territory to the south-east. The province of Balochistan is located southwards while Afghanistan borders Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the north-west

The main ethnic group in the province are the Pashtun people; other smaller ethnic groups include most notably the Hindkowans, Dards,Chitralis (who include the Kalasha) and Gujjars.

The provincial languages are Pashto,hindko,chatrli,Gujjri, spoken by the majority as first language; Urdu, the national language, is widely spoken as a second language. English is mainly used for official and literary purposes. The provincial capital and largest city is Peshawar

My Provence is beautiful. It has swat valley Kaghan Valley, including naran,shogran,one of the romantic lake of saif ul malook.Nathigali and thandani cool place in summer.

Administratively it has 25 districts. We have a provincial Govt set up. recently we have gone through smooth transition of power.

Educational Institution

Province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Division Hazara

District Mansehra

Tehsil Oghi

Union Council Malooga

Institution Name Government Girls Higher Secondary School,Oghi

It is located in beautiful green valley of Ogh: Its a mountainous and hard area. In the north west of oghi is darband kala dakha which is safe place for the escaper and most wanted people. This affects the thinking of the people that’s why they become rigid and backward . Our institution is the only one in the tehsil oghi which is up to 12 stander there is no girls college . Girls student are not allowed to get further education in out-side the areas. Even some brilliant students although wants to get admission in college but parents do not allow.

We have staff of 25 female teachers, their designation are Principal , subject specialist , SET, CT DM, AT. Teachers are qualified according to their designation . some have higher qualification. But most of them get distance education.

Educational needs

Capacity building of the teachers

Extension of the building.

Needs new technology.

Parents counseling .

MAP Goal:

Capacity Building Of elementary School Teachers in Teaching Methods through professional development trainings

Overview: In our rural schools, there is the need for teacher capacity building in the area of instructional strategies. As subject specialists, we want to increase our own knowledge of diverse instructional teaching methodologies, as well as increase the capacity of our fellow teachers----at our institution and in nearby institutions (walking distance and metro). To do this, we will hire a specialist in the area of instructional strategies (especially in pedagogy) to conduct five days of training for teachers in the region. Outlines for the trainings have been drafted, though final decisions about the training will be made by the resource person/expert.

Two weeks after the training, we will go to assess the teachers who attended the workshops. We will go their schools and observe their methodology with our checklist. If further capacity-building is needed, we will offer suggestions on-the-spot, in a constructivist, healthy, positive manner. For issues that we cannot resolve, we will consult our own mentors/senior teachers.

At two months, we will visit UNSCHEDULED to see if the methodology is employed or not.

Objectives :

The teacher will be able to :

• Differentiate between Strategies ,approaches, methods, and techniques

• To use innovative method and technique in teaching learning process.

• To develop lesson plan according to methodology

Venue: School hall GGHSS OGHI.

Target Group: Elementary School Teachers.

Duration: 5 Days.

Day 1:

Objectives: Exploring, Approaches ,Methods, Techniques.

Procedures:

Agenda , pre test, orientation ,presentation by the resource person .

Discussion . Presentation by the participants.

Time	topic	Activity	Recourse person
8:00 am	Introduction, pre test,	About your self	R.P
8:30: am	Teaching method	Lecture, discussion, presentation.	R.P
10:30 am	Tea break ,
10:45 am	Approaches ,technique	Discussion, presentation	R.P
12:30 pm	Lunch break
1:30 pm	Lesson planning	Discussion, presentation	R.P
3: 00 pm	Reflection	Discussion, question ,answer	R.P

Material : Content ,audio visual aids ( projector, charts, markers ,flips chart ,board,)

Day 2:

objective: : Exploring the demonstration method, experimental method , demonstrate and

elaborate.

Procedure: agenda , pre test, orientation ,activities and demonstration ,discussion

Time	topic	Activity	Recourse person
8:00 am	Introduction, pre test,		R.P
8:30 am	Demonstration	Use of charts, pictures, maps, demo	R.P
10:30 am	Tea break ,
10:45 am	Experimental	Experimental (use of lab)	R.P
12:30 pm	Lunch break
1:30 pm	experimental	Discussion, question answer	R.P
3: 00 pm	Reflection	discussion	R.P

Material: audio visual aids ( projector, charts, markers ,flips chart ,board,)

Day 3:

objective: Exploring the direct method, grammar translation method, discussion method.

Procedure: agenda , pre test,activities

Time	topic	Activity	Recourse person
8:00 am	pre test,		R.P
8:30 am	Direct method (natural method)	Discussion ,presentation, question ,answer.	R.P
10:30 am	Tea break ,
10:45 am	Grammar translation method	Pair work, group work, question answer.	R.P
12:30 pm	Lunch break
1:30 pm	Discussion method	Discussion, group work	R.P
3: 00 pm	Reflection	discussion	R.P

Material: : audio visual aids ( projector, charts, markers ,flips chart ,board,)

Day 4:

Objective: lecture method , constrictive method.

Procedure: agenda,pre test, discussion

Time	topic	Activity	Recourse person
8:00 am	pre test,		R.P
8:30 am	Lecture method,	Discussion, answer, question	R.P
10:30 am	Tea break ,
10:45 am	Deductive inductive method	Group work, discussion,	R.P
12:30 pm	Lunch break
1:30 pm	Deductive, inductive method.	Group work, presentation , answer question	R.P
3: 00 pm	Reflection		R.P

Material: : audio visual aids ( projector, charts, markers ,flips chart ,board,)

Day 5:

Objective: Mutual Learning.

Procedure: Agenda,pre test,

Time	topic	Activity	Recourse person
8:00 am	pre test,		R.P
8:30 am	Assignment, (lesson planning)	presentation	R.P
10:30 am	Tea break ,
10:45 am	Assignment	presentation	R.P
12:30 pm	Lunch break
1:30 pm	Feed back and key learning	Use of charts, post test	R.P
3: 00 pm

Material: : audio visual aids ( projector, charts, markers ,flips chart ,board,)

Assessment

· Pre test : We will observe five (5) classrooms and write up narrative observations (informal) anonymously for the purpose of providing the resource person with a sense of the starting point/foundational skills of the teachers, at large.

· Formative Assessment: We will observe the teaching of all participants in at least one class at two weeks post training. The evaluation checklist (developed collaboratively with the expert) will be completed with each observation.

· Summative Assessment: We will observe the teaching of all participants in at least one class at two months post training. The evaluation checklist (developed collaboratively with the expert) will be completed with each observation.

During the observations we will use the following:

· Mentor observation/ peer assessment

· Lesson study

· Students feed back

Budget

Items description	Purpose	Expenditure
Resource person	Training	30,000 $ 300
Participant honorarium	Training	30,000 $ 300
Refreshment	Training	20,000 $ 200
Stationary	Training	20,000 $ 200
		Total = 100000 $ 1OOO

Max Warburg Courage organization

The Max story was very impressive. It contributed a lot about children with learning difficulties. The courage which I personally feel was in Max’s eyes. He was a fighter who fought against leukemia with boldness. His story gave the lesson of fighting lifes troubles to do something which will remain forever. I will share his story with my students and also I will share with children of my family.

It was lovely meeting with Max mother. Those who are working in the organization deserve appreciation that they are leading the children of world on the dream of Max.

In his video at the last moments of Max’s life he was waving his hand with the sign of victory and his victory is going on and on….

Hopefully our children will become a part of Max’s victory.

Reflection on Washington DC visit

We started our journey at 6:30am on june 24th 2013 towards Washington DC. Reach there at 12:30pm. We stayed in hotel Radisson,in crystal city. We started our travel to explore the capitol, Centre of attraction for the whole world Washington District of Columbia, through moon light trolley. Driver of the trolley told us the background history of all the monuments, it’s a very interesting why to told the history. We saw Memorials like Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Lincoln Memorial Statue, Jefferson Memorial, World War II Memorial, Vietnam Veterans Statue, Korean War Memorial, statue of albert Einstein, Capitol building and White House. All that was amazing.

Next day on june 24th we had a meeting with the staff of State Department of Education and Cultural Affairs. We shared our experiences at new Hampshire. The representatives of State department shared detail of their projects on which they are working with Pakistanis. They gave us some access of those projects, it was a very interactive meeting.

We visited the natural museum, American history and meson Ian institute the castle. Interesting ways to restore and preserve the history. Then we visited the pentagon city, it has beautiful shopping malls.

On june 25th we got a golden opportunity to visit senate and then a meeting with the representatives of Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire.it was wonderful.

It was unforgettable, inspiring and fruitful visit.

PELP Reflection

It was a wonderful and unforgettable learning experience of my life.

Key Learning being a Educator

Exposure to US teaching and education system

Advance Teaching techniques and methodologies

Professional development

Integrating learning services(new idea for me)

Effective use of E-technology in teaching

Nationalism, commitment and rule of law.

We are leaders, in area which we are working

Standardization of each component of education

Preservation of history was amazing and everlasting

Traditions and culture sharing

Use of wordless books

Competency based learning

Note

The whole team of PELP is so cooperative, we created our MAPs in very healthy environment. They all are so patience. I am thankful to all of them from the core of my heart. The time I spent in New Hampshire will remain in my good memories.

This project is an opportunity for all Pakistanis and it will help in minimizing the controversies in the Pak-US relations. Its my humble suggestion that it should continue in future.