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[Link] of card?
Write your points on a card when you are delivering a lesson. Sometimes teachers
tend to forget what they had to say. It is absolutely okay to consult a card in that
case. Colored pens can be used to make differences of noun, verb etc. Having notes
on a paper is difficult as they can sometimes stick together or fly away. Use a
bigger font on a card. Teachers can show a card to the students to help them spell
it. Teachers can give red, yellow and green cards to students to assess herself. If
they understand the lesson the can show green card. If they didn‟t, they can raise
the red card. Yellow card would mean somewhat understood
[Link] reading?
The online maps like Google Maps are very commonly used nowadays. Students
must be trained to read maps. They can be given maps on leaflets. It can be done
on a primary level. The teacher can make a map of the school. In this way students
would not depend on anyone to reach a destination. Teacher can make the students
do an actual activity where they go out of the classroom and find a certain place.
They can tick off the place they reach at.
[Link] teach?
Team teach means you can have an assistant teacher in your class. Both of you can
work together and supplement each other. It is going to benefit both the players.
Classroom management can be much better in this way. One teacher can handle
individual tasks and other teacher can manage the overall class. Junior school
teachers can team teach with senior school teachers to learn their techniques. It is a
matter of team playing, learning from each other‟s experiences and also to
appreciate each other‟s efforts. A change in the classroom environment is a good
way to motivate the students especially those who are shy. Later the teacher can do
a survey to assess if the students enjoyed the team teach.
[Link] planning?
While planning a lesson the most important thing the teachers need to look at is the
aims that she is having in her mind for the lesson; that is the student learning aim
for the teacher. What does she think the student needs to aim at in order to learn
about that topic which she is introducing to the class. There has to be a very
realistic aim for the students to make the learning authentic; the realistic aims can
be achieved whereas if the teacher is looking for an unrealistic aim that means that
will not be achievable. So, in other words the student learning aims have to be
realistic and achievable.
Secondly, the aims should be measurable. The teacher should be able to measure
the success of the aim. For example, the primary school children should recognize
the words and the sounds of the letters, this aim is achievable as well as
measureable, because by the end of the lesson, the teacher would be able to assess
the recognition and sounds of the letters. Similarly, the teachers learning aim
should also be included in the lesson, e.g, the teacher learning aim is that while
doing the lesson delivery, the teacher should be able to assess what she needs to
develop upon and further work on and add in the lesson to improve it; in other
words, how she can teach in a better way e.g, in a secondary school class the
teacher aims that the pronunciation of the class should have 100% perfection. This
is not a realistic aim. In order to have a realistic aim she may say that the
pronunciation of the class should be higher than the current pronunciation level.
The teacher should thus keep in mind the learning aims of the students as well as
her own aims i.e. she should have a certain level of teaching.
The teacher while planning her lesson has to keep targets in her mind. The targets
again need to be realistic and achievable. The targets must be kept in mind
according to the level of students. Also if it is a mixed ability group, the teacher
has to set different targets for different groups of learning. For example, the time
management factor is a target for the teacher. To do an activity in a particular time
can differ with the high level students and with the lower levels students. If there is
a mixed ability group in the class, some students who are high-level learners and
challengers can probably finish an essay in 10 minutes whereas there can be some
students in the class who would finish the same activity in 20 minutes so, the time
management for all the abilities in the class has to be kept in mind when a teacher
is planning a lesson.
The time management factor has to be improved gradually as a practice among the
students. The teacher needs to sort of monitor what is the time being taken to do an
activity and how much time is taken by the high level learners, the average level
learners and the low level learners but keeping in mind the ratio; if the ratio is, for
example, for high learners it is 10 for average it is 15 and for low it is 20 the
teacher needs to keep in mind that this has to be improved at all levels for example
while doing the lesson she should make sure that those who finished their activity
in 10 should try to finish it in 9 minutes those who finish in 15 should try to finish
it in 12 minutes and those who do it at 20 should try to finish at somewhere
between 17or18. So, time management factor has to be put in the lesson plan while
keeping in mind that this has to be improved by managing time as well. Now there
are ways to manage time that is to give instructions to the students to provide them
with resources and to make their learning easy so that they can complete the tasks
given in the time given. Also the teacher can rehearse the lesson and assess for
herself how much time is taken to do a certain activity if she is writing an essay
herself taking 8 minutes then she should expect the students to be taking at least 10
minutes because she is herself at a higher level than the students. Similarly, she can
also do the practice of rehearsing the same in other classes and then finding out the
average time taken to do an activity so she has to be completely in the process of
researching and rehearsing, in order to see how much time is practically taken to
complete an activity and then improve on that factor.
It should not be considered that if people are taking 10 minutes than they should
always take 10 minutes. Gradually, the speed of writing, learning or doing an
activity would definitely improve if it is a good lesson therefore the teacher needs
to manage time in a way that the activity is completed but it is not completed in a
hurried way. Even that is going to give the lesson a poor taste. So, in order to
manage it well it has to be again realistic time management. The teacher needs to
keep in mind what are the activities, how long would the students take to complete
the activities and how much explanation they need in order to complete the activity
[Link] practices?
Another useful tip to professionally develop themselves for the teachers is to have
an action research done in their own class. In order to have research in her own
class the teacher needs to look into her interested areas. For example, a teacher
wants to find out why my learners cannot read well, what are the things which are
not encouraging my learners to read well. That can be a topic of the action research
done by the teacher. So, teacher is going to find out ways how to improve their
reading skills. This action research can be formally or informally done.
[Link] you teach student past tense give example?
Past Simple
It is something similar to present simple but the difference is in time. The time has
passed now. “I eat” now becomes “I ate”. A teacher can draw a timeline as it is a
useful tool in grammar lessons. It is a common practice at all levels. Jumping from
present to past would make students understand it well. The past tenses of verb
must be taught to students. Teacher can make columns of verbs in random order
and ask students to match them. It is not a good practice to memorize the past
forms of verbs. Students should be able to consult the teacher for help
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Monitoring also involves giving feedback about the progress of the project to the
donors, implementers and beneficiaries of the project.
[Link] is feedback?
Topic184: Feedback
As it very clear from the word, feedback means you give back your opinions after
something has been given to you. So, you feed back on the strengths and
weaknesses of what you have come across this feedback helps the learners to know
there strengths and weaknesses when somebody is doing something and he is
putting all his effort in it still he needs to know what is good in what he is doing
and what does he lag in or what are his weaknesses. A feedback coming from
somebody who is watching him and knows the subject and is an expert in it helps
the learner to improve in that and also feel proud about the strengths.
Feedback is very important for all of us. And that is why in all fields of life the
feedback is always given. Sometimes, it is in the form of writing that is a written
feedback. Sometimes, it is a verbal feedback; which ever form it takes, it has to be
very positive it has to be a healthy feedback, it has not to be a critical one where a
person is being personalized in order to tell about the weaknesses. Instead it should
be a feedback which is focused on the skills, which is focused on the abilities and
work on the weaknesses in order to get better results, in order to improve in our
lives or in order to get better results we all need feedback. And it is done at every
level when a child is in the school a report is actually a feedback the report is
actually telling what the child is doing in the class when college students work on
assignments, the teachers need to give them a feedback in order to help them
improve in their weaknesses and to know what things they are really doing well.
So, this type of a feedback which is not personalized which is not affecting the
personality of a person is always useful.
Teachers need to be very careful when they have to give feedback on the works of
their students whatever the level the teachers are confronting with the students.
They must be careful to write the feedback or to give a verbal feedback to the
student because this can make the big difference in the life of the students.
Generally speaking, it is said that the feedback must start with something good;
maybe you have to tell ten things which the person has done wrong. But even if
you know one good thing about the person you should start with that it might seem
to be very difficult in certain cases with the teachers. Sometimes, trainee teachers
complain that there are some students where they don‟t find anything positive to
say but still it is I think the best thing to do is to look for something good in your
students. To look for something positive that you can start the feedback with
because that something is going to really give a starter to your conversation and
your student is going to listen to it because in the beginning you said something
good for the student if you will start criticizing the student in a negative way from
the very beginning of your conversation the student will not be interested in
listening to it because instantly when you start criticizing your students negatively
or if the feedback is started with the negative sentence the student goes in a state of
guilt and shame and this guilt and shame will not let him to the concentrate on the
rest of the conversation. So, it is very important that the feedback is started with a
positive sentence even if you have to talk about the weaknesses later.
Similarly he is the subject. And he is hurt. So he the action is hurt it goes back it
reflects back on him. Again he is also a pronoun but it is not the reflexive pronoun
at the moment. So we will not be talking about the pronoun him. But we know that
it is a pronoun on which reflective pronoun is being based because the action
which is done on is going back on him
[Link]?
Professional development and teacher training is not very much in place in the
Pakistani education system however recent years have shown that some of the
organizations and some of the private schools are working on the professional
development of teachers. There are some government projects also working with
collaboration with institutions where there are opportunities for teachers to learn
and have teacher training. Teacher training is not only important because it is
going to enhance the skills that we already have as teachers; it is important to know
what is the changing world of education how are the students behaving in this time,
what are the requirements of the teachers to cope with the learning needs of their
students. So, by having discussions while we are having teacher training programs
and workshops, we come across other people and exchange ideas and share ideas
to understand the needs of the child of this century. If we are aware of the needs of
the students in this century only then we will be able to satisfy their learning needs.
It has been noticed that the traditional teachers, because of the lack of teacher
training programs, just stick to the same teaching methods which they had learned
20 or 30 years ago. We all know that the child of today is very different from the
child of the year which has been somewhere in 1970 or 1980. They have different
demands in all their lifestyles and also in education. So that shows that teacher
training programs are compulsory and this professional development must take
place in the profession of teaching as well
[Link] is professional developing learning?
Today's Paper :)
A teacher provide some phrases to use in the conversation, this is not possible at
the primary level why?
The teacher can provide different phrases for students to use in their conversation.
This activity is not possible in primary school as they would not be able to
understand the meaning of phrases. Teachers can use phrases from text or lessons
students are already familiar with. Students can find meanings of phrases by asking
their peers. This activity should be more intrapersonal rather than the teacher
intervening all the time. Teacher can take rounds and monitor them while not
making her presence felt. She should not look at the faces of students to make them
conscious. The students should be dealt with independently. It should be learner
centered activity. The teacher can make informal observations of her students and
perhaps evaluate them. After ten lessons she can reevaluate them to check their
progress.
Students ask classmates yes or no questions, and classmates reply with short
answers. Make sure they place emphasis on actions that are continuing.
Aisa want to teach Prefixes to her students which strategies she use?
As a teacher I will used the following Strategies
You know what a prefix is. And you might even be able to explain what a prefix is.
So what is a prefix?
A prefix is a word part that is placed in front of a base word. A prefix usually
changes the meaning of the base word. Take a look at the example below.
Think about the word happy. The prefix un placed in front of the word happy
makes a new word with a new meaning—unhappy. The prefix un means not, so it
changes the meaning of the word happy to not happy.
The Two Most Common Prefixes
The most common prefixes are un and re. These two prefixes are the most useful
for beginning spellers to learn because they appear frequently and their meanings
are easy to understand and remember.
Un means not (unhappy = not happy) or the reverse of or opposite of (as in untie).
The advantage is that the teacher gets to know the level of familiarization of the
students with the language. However, the disadvantages are that it does not engage
other students at all. Usually, the best student is asked to read, who is already at an
advantage, and the rest of the class can‟t follow him, they become disinterested.
Even the one who is reading does not concentrate on the content but is pressurized
to read correctly, well with proper pronunciation so, in fact he does not benefit
much either. It is merely a waste of time however; it can benefit if it is timed
correctly and carried out at the end of the lesson when everyone has become
familiar with the content. It is better if loud reading is done in pairs or groups
rather than one student reading and the rest of them getting disengaged. Maybe one
student can be asked to read while the others repeat after him.
Personal pronoun
Personal pronoun stands for three persons. The first one is the person speaking, the
person speaking is “I”. The examples are: I am young. So, when I am saying I am
young that means I am the first person. I am the person who is speaking so that
will be the first person. We are young. So we is again referring to the first person.
People who are saying something about themselves are the first person. So, this is
first person in plural. I is first person in singular. This book is mine. Again there is
a pronoun which is referring to the first person, the person who is talking is
referring that the book is mine. So again this is the first person and this is the
person who is speaking. And the pronoun used for the person who is speaking and
is referring to the first person is known as personal pronoun. And the examples are:
this book is mine. He was talking to me. So when somebody is saying he was
talking to me. So that means this is the person who is speaking. And is using the
pronoun for himself.
Look at some other examples. The person spoken to that is the second person so
the personal pronoun will also be used for the person spoken to and this person
spoken to would be called the second person. The examples are: You are quite
young. So this personal pronoun you is being used for the person to whom the
person is speaking to. This book is yours. So somebody is telling the other person
this book is yours. So yours here is personal pronoun which is being used for the
person spoken to and that is called the second person he was talking to you after a
long time. So he is a pronoun but that is not a personal pronoun he was talking to
you, you is a personal pronoun because the person is talking to somebody and this
somebody is a second person the person spoken to. And this second person can be
you another personal pronoun used for you can be yours and he was talking to you
after a long time. Again you is going to be the personal pronoun and this personal
pronoun is used for the second person the person to whom somebody is speaking it
is the person spoken to. Which makes the personal pronoun of you and when it
becomes possessive it becomes yours. This book is yours this is your camera.
Again there can be yours and you’re both used for the personal pronoun when it is
having an object like this book is your belonging. So it becomes yours and when
you just want to stop the sentence this book is yours if you just want to stop the
sentence at yours then you will be using an so this book belongs to you again you
would be the personal pronoun used for the second person and then we come to
another example the person spoken of that is the third person. She is quite young
and pretty so this is a personal pronoun where it is being used for the third person,
the person who is being referred to. These are their tickets to travel by train today.
So there is becoming a plural personal pronoun because they are the people about
whom something is being said. And they are the third person he was talking to
them in the class room. Again they are in plural so it is in them it is not he or she
rather it is them because it is a plural personal pronoun.
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Quran says in Surah-e-Al-Anbia verse # 107: “And We have not sent you, [O
Muhammad], except as a mercy to the worlds.” Quran says in Surah-e-Al-Anbia
verse # 107: “And We have not sent you, [O Muhammad], except as a mercy to the
worlds.” Surah-e-Al-Imran verse # 159: “So by mercy from Allah, [O
Muhammad], you were lenient with them. And if you had been rude [in speech]
and harsh in heart, they would have disbanded from about you. So pardon them
and ask forgiveness for them and consult them in the matter. And when you have
decided, then rely upon Allah. Indeed, Allah loves those who rely [upon Him].”
Once a person came with the intentions to take His (S.A.W) life but when he saw
Him (S.A.W) he became so nervous that his hands shivered and his sword fell on
the ground. The Prophet (S.A.W) picked up his sword, could kill him but very
politely He (S.A.W) forgave him.
Already explain
Q:13 Before preaching of Islam the condition of Madina and how to teach 1-6
grade?
Revise the names and incidents very briefly making them a part of the activity.
Ensure that they are very clear about these two terms i.e. ‘Preaching’ and
‘Migration’.
Show gadgets and then explain to the students accordingly. Give task to junior
grade to learn reciting Nazrah Quran starting from 1st Sipara.
Already explain
Since no body has control over history or writing history including or excluding
any thing therefore, one has to have to be equipped with the ability to sift the facts.
It is not common man’s job. We know that a Hadith involves sayings, decisions,
advices, deeds, tacit approval of companion’s talks and actions of the Prophet
(S.A.W) therefore; one has to have command over all these things. Over the time
many false things have also been included, using various forms, by some people
with some ill intentions. Hence, if we are not aware of uloom-e-Hadith, we are
likely to go wrong which is simply intolerable from the religious point of view
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4-
5-
6- How will you teach ‘Invasion and Conquest of Mecca’ to grade 5-8?
You should first of all tell them the location of Mecca and Khana Kaaba with the
help of any good teaching aid available. You should stress on them that one should
pray to God Almighty only and not to idols. Idols are nothing but statues made of
clay, stone or mixture of many things that cannot give anything to anyone and
cannot take anything from anyone. You should stress on one point that Koraish
were the worst enemies of Muslims and Prophet (S.A.W) but Prophet (S.A.W)
forgave all of them and did not harm anyone at all. This shows how kind hearted
our Prophet (S.A.W). Also tell the students to write difficult words on their note
books and check them.
7-
Almighty Allah has said in the Holy Quran Surah-e-Isra verse # 23-24: “And your
Lord has decreed that you not worship except Him, and to parents, good
treatment….. Whether one or both of them reach old age [while] with you, say not
to them [so much as], "uff," and do not repel them but speak to them a noble
word….. And lower to them the wing of humility out of mercy and say, "May
Lord, have mercy upon them as they brought me up [when I was] small.
Allah Almighty has also commanded us in the Holy Quran Surah-e-Issra verse #
26: “And give the relative his right.” When you become relatives to each other
Allah Almighty increases your wealth and resources and the one who gives due
regards to relativeness his age is also increased
Surah-e-Ad-Duha verse # 9: “So as for the orphan, do not oppress [him].” Surah-e-
Al-Maoun verse # 1-2: “Have you seen the one who denies the Recompense? For
that is the one who drives away the orphan.”
Surah-e-Al-Fajar verse # 17: “No! But you do not honour the orphan.”
Surah-e-An-Nisa verse # 2: “And give to the orphans their properties and do not
substitute the defective [of your own] for the good [of theirs]. And do not consume
their properties into your own. Indeed, that is ever a great sin.”
There is a hill in Mecca called Koh-e-Safa. One day, Prophet (S.A.W) invited
everyone in Mecca to Koh-e-Safa to tell them of a great danger which they faced
because of Kufr and Shirk. Koh-e-Safa is close to Ka’abah. Standing on the hill,He
(S.A.W) addressed them, “what do you think of me”? Everyone responded “al-
Sadiq and al-Amin” (truthful and trustworthy). If I say there is an army behind this
hill to attack you, will you believe me? Yes! Why not. You are al-Sadiq. Then
listen,said Prophet (S.A.W) “I invite you to believe in Allah, say with me ‘La
illaha illa Allah’ give up your idols, evil practices and do good deeds. There will be
a day of judgement. You will be judged for your belief and actions. I invite you to
believe in Allah only”.
Faith comprises many components. Some may not even physically be seen but one
has to believe, In other words one has to have strong belief in the sayings of Islam,
based on spiritual conviction rather than proof.
Surah-e-Baqara verse # 284 reads as: “To Allah belongs whatever is in the heavens
and whatever is in the earth. Whether you show what is within yourselves or
conceal it, Allah will bring you to account for it. Then He will forgive whom He
wills and punish whom He wills, and Allah is over all things competent.”
13- Period of stay in Mecca and how many surah revealed in Makah?
The Meccan period was 13 years where, a substantial part of Quran was revealed
out of 114, 86 Surahs were revealed while stay at Mecca.
Surah-e-Maidah to Surah-e-Tobah
Surah-e-Younis to Surah-e-Ishaq
Surah-e-Bani-Irsaiel to Surah-e-Furqan
Surah-e-Al-Shuara to Surah-e-Yasin
Surah-e-Al-Saffat to Surah-e-Al-Hujraat
Up to Surah-e-Naas
15- What happened in the battle of Moota?
These are very important and simultaneously very sensitive topics. While teaching
Hajja-tul-Wida it must be emphasised that it was and still it is a unique event in the
history and particularly history of Islam. The students must be taught with
emphases that the number of people who gathered around the Prophet (S.A.W) for
Hajj is a unique and wonderful phenomenon. It would be better if important dates,
places and incidents are briefly written on the board before the lecture begins.
The last activities of Prophet (S.A.W) must be taught with reference to the places
where they occurred. The dates and years of Islamic calendar and Common Era
calendars should also be taught in a way that they should understand the difference
between the two calendars. Since the junior grade may not be able to understand
the minute details therefore, they should be taught in a broad way. Whereas, the
senior grade should be taught in detail and questions must be asked from students
of every category to know the feedback and give the home work accordingly.
It covers nations e.g. Aad-o-Samud, Jews and Pagans etc. It also gives tremendous
historical information about the solar system, human being, physical features, wild
life and various happenings. It also narrates true stories about various human
groups and individuals. It starts the history from the time history started itself e.g.
story of Hazrat Adam (A.S), Habeel and Qabeel and the crow. In nut-shell there is
hardly anything which we do not find which leaves lessons and virtuous guidance
for us
There are certain preconditions to embrace Islam which one has to fulfill. One has
to accept all those conditions from the core of his heart. In brief one has to
surrender his free will to the will of God
“I bear witness that no-one is worthy of worship but Allah, the One alone, without
partner, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His Man and Messenger”
5 Loves for Allah
Allah has created us and the whole universe full of charms, joys and comforts.
Although we never have considered but the air, water, light, fire, vegetables, fruits
and other edibles and drinks are all for us. And one cannot live without these.
Much more beyond our thoughts Allah has blessed us with many things which we
can’t even see. All these things demand that we must love from soul and heart, our
Lord Almighty Allah. Allah says in Surah-e-Ibrahime verse # 34: “And if you
should count the favor of Allah, you could not enumerate them.” When one
remembers HIS kindness he automatically falls in love with Allah, who has sent
Prophets and messengers to us to convey us the same message that our first and
foremost duty is to love Allah. We must always keep thanking HIM for HIS
kindness to us. This is our love with Allah. Allah says in Surah-e-Ad-Duha verse #
11: “But as for the favour of your Lord, report [it].”
Adab –un-nabi
Allah has granted an un-matched status to Prophet (S.A.W) and its various
dimensions have been mentioned in the Holy book. Some of the examples are
given in
Surah-e-Al-Hujraat. Verse # 1:
“O you, who have believed, do not put [yourselves] before Allah and His
Messenger but fear Allah. Indeed, Allah is Hearing and Knowing.
”
Verse # 2:“O you, who have believed, do not raise your voices above the voice of
the Prophet or be loud to him in speech like the loudness of some of you to others,
lest your deeds become worthless while you perceive not.”
Verse # 3:“Indeed, those who lower their voices before the Messenger of Allah -
they are the ones whose hearts Allah has tested for righteousness. For them is
forgiveness and great reward.”
Verse # 4:“Indeed, those who call you, [O Muhammad], from behind the chambers
- most of them do not use reason.”
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