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

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 Content

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

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

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

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

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 Values: The value of having but having means having only what is enough Productivity Tools: BBC English Learning

Level 1: Remembering Brainstorm session to judge students prior knowledge through various examples. 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 4: Analyzing Through peer checking, students will point out their errors. Level 5: Evaluating Students will be evaluated through dialogue conversation. Level 6: Creating MS Word will be used by the students or a well written passage, using perfect tense.

Strategies21 st century Approachs Mode I will develop interpersonal and collaborative skills during creative writing sessions and brain storming for literature based analytical questions Questioning skills Monitoring and observing skill Encouraging Skill Random grouping of students will be done to inculcate team spirit and social ethics, along with accomplishing the learning goals I will provide opportunities to play word games to enhance their word power Observing skillsI will ask them to play online scrabble and play word games in groups like ‘small crosswords, jumble or target games’ I will focus on correct usage of grammar. Listening & speaking skills Direction Skills Questioning skills Thorough explanation and reinforcement worksheets. I’ll brainstorm the main theme of the passage Students will be asked to comprehend in their own words. Intervening skills Monitor questioning skills I will encourage students for their response to the given questions. Topics  Report writing  Her First Ball  Fly in the Ointment  Present and Past perfect tense  Compre hension

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.

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

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.

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