Action Plan FEB.-MAY 2012

1. Action Plan FEB.-MAY 2012 Ms Afreen Iqbal The City School Gulshan Campus English PREP III

2. Content • Long term goals • Short term goals • Application of bloom’s taxonomy and 21st century approaches • Instructional Strategies and tasks • Solutions to anticipated challenges • Timeline • Resources • Acknowledgement • Conclusion

3. Adopt 21st century teaching approaches, to manage and create effective oral, written and multimedia communication in a variety of forms and contexts. LONG TERM GOALS

4. Short- Term Goals • Develop interpersonal and collaborative skills • Enhance students word power, so that they can illustrate their views in better vocabulary • Polish students’ innate talents and to provide a ground, where they can express their creative potentials and constructive ideas. • To be skilled in the usage of grammar ; reinforcement exercises

5. Time Line For FEB.-MAY 2012 COMPREHENSION O.P.E Unit 6-10 CREATIVE WRITING Report writing Writing an opinion Imaginative composition Descriptive accounts Article writing LITERATURE The Destructors The Rain Horse My Greatest Ambition Sandpiper At Hiruharam GRAMMAR A verb less sentence Prefixes Idioms and Expressions Homophones Future Time Narration Phrasal verbs

6. Use of bloom’s taxonomy and 21st century approaches.

7. Application of Bloom’s Taxonomy Learning Objectives: Students will be able to learn and practice the use of Present and Past perfective with the auxiliary have Productivity Tools: www.nonstopenglish.com www.englishclub.com www.google.com.pk BBC English Learning Values: The value of having but having means having only what is enough

8. Level 1: Remembering Brainstorm session to judge students prior knowledge through various examples. Level 4: Analyzing Through peer checking, students will point out their errors. Level 5: Evaluating Students will be evaluated through dialogue conversation. Level 2: Understanding I’ll explain the rules to clarify the concept. Level 3: Applying Students will be given a worksheet to change the sentences into perfect tense. Level 6: Creating MS Word will be used by the students or a well written passage, using perfect tense.

9. Topics • Report writing • Her First Ball • Fly in the Ointment • Present and Past perfect tense • Comprehension

10. SOLUTIONS TO ANTICIPATED CHALLENGES • PROBLEMS • Very few students are interested in visiting the olcsn website • Some students complain that they are unable to open the password through their roll numbers. • Students and parents will notice that grammar is not being focused in the new session. • SOLUTIONS • Those worksheets should be marked for the term marks. • As the information or worksheet is the same for all the students, they can access the site through a friend’s password. • Students will be informed that as per CIE pattern, more emphasis will be laid on comprehension and creative writing.

11. Resources • Other teachers who teach same grades and subjects • Internet • Reference books, curriculum, dictionary • Word processing, multimedia, worksheets, spread sheet applications • Intel teaching program getting started course intel manual

12. Acknowledgement I would like to acknowledge the Trainers at the INTEL workshop who taught us sincerely and with patience. I am grateful to my family, management and colleagues for their extended support which enabled me to design this action plan.

13. Conclusion • By implementing my newly acquired teaching styles students will be empowered and will appreciate and gain better knowledge at English