1. ACTION PLAN Mrs. ROMINA NOUSHEEN THE CITY SCHOOL O’LEVEL

2. LONG TERM GOALS The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited. (Plutarch) To develop 21 st century skills in students to enable them to think critically to achieve productive creativity. Inculcate self reliance among students 05-02-11 ROMINA NOUSHEEN 2

3. SHORT TERM GOALS To offer opportunities to find explanation of historical course of events. Discuss issues that may affect students lives, the direction of societies and the future of Pakistan/world. To develop collaboration with the help of research and peer reviewing. To enable them to assess their understanding through application in a variety of contexts. 05-02-11 ROMINA NOUSHEEN 3

4. BLOOM’S REVISED TAXONOMY CreatingCreating Generating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing things Designing, constructing, planning, Evaluatingproducing, inventing. Evaluating Justifying a decision or course of action Checking, hypothesising, critiquing, Analysingexperimenting, judging Analysing Breaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationships Comparing, organising, deconstructing, interrogating, finding 05-02-11 ROMINA NOUSHEEN 4

5. BLOOM’S REVISED TAXONOMY 05-02-11 ROMINA NOUSHEEN 5 Creating Creating Generating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing things Designing, constructing, planning, Evaluating Analysing producing, inventing. Evaluating Justifying a decision or course of action Checking, hypothesising, critiquing, experimenting, judging Analysing Breaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationships Comparing, organising, deconstructing, interrogating, finding

6. 05-02-11 ROMINA NOUSHEEN 6 Applying Understanding Applying Using information in another familiar situation Implementing, carrying out, using, executing Understanding Explaining ideas or concepts Interpreting, summarising, paraphrasing, classifying, Remembering explaining Remembering Recalling information Recognising, listing, describing, retrieving, naming, finding

7. INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES AND TASKS CONCEPTDescriptionActivity/ Task KnowledgeDefine and clarify an issue so that its features are well understood. Students identify the participants, the setting, and the issues of different issues. ComprehensionIdentify and provide an explanation of the significance of an event, issue, or problem Students will read first and second hand information from various sources, and compare it to a textbook account of the issue or event. ApplicationDiscuss the various influences on particular topics Discussion and investigation that how historians, and political observers each view the same events. 05-02-11 ROMINA NOUSHEEN 7

8. 05-02-11 ROMINA NOUSHEEN 8 AnalysisIdentify and explain characteristics, causes, and consequences of an event, issue, or problem. Students compare and contrast how different groups feel about different issues. SynthesisAsk ‘what if’ and ‘then what’ questions about a particular event or issue and discuss the outcome or predict possible affects and effects. Students draw a cause and effect chart that illustrates how the certain actions have turned into positive or negative results. Find evidence to support a conclusion. EvaluationExplain and evaluate the implications, effects, and/ or results and their relationship to the even, issue, or problem you are examining. Evaluate and dismiss alternative interpretations, outcomes, or prepare possible responses to argument.

9. CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS CHALLENGES SOLUTIONS Time constraintTo overcome time constraint students will be visiting my wiki page where already new topic, details and instruction will be posted. Students will also be able to discuss their queries and individual problems on the page. Lack of interest in History Movies and documentaries will shown for some of the related topics in the boardroom in coordination with Head Mistress. 05-02-11 ROMINA NOUSHEEN 9

10. Students will Make chronology To learn separate and sort information Timeline AugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember Students will watch “Jinnah” movie. Revision Group discussion on selected topics to learn evaluation and analysis Debate competition between sections.

11. RESOURCES Library books. Parental involvement. Internet. Documentaries. Political talk shows. 05-02-11 ROMINA NOUSHEEN 11

12. CONCLUSION 21st century learning ensures for every student to achieve the most desirable skills such as work ethic, collaboration, social responsibility, critical thinking and problem- solving, to help them deal with the situations that they will encounter in college, on the job, and in life. 05-02-11 ROMINA NOUSHEEN 12