Best posts made by Erum Zahid

Hi dear,
For next decade, essential skills for students would be, communication, socialization, AI learning, familiarity with other cultures, adaptability and positivity, Virtual Team Builder, Innovative in decision making and most importantly self esteemed and growth.

At our school, we've discovered that linking lessons to real-life examples transforms how students engage with learning. Whether it's explaining chemical reactions through cooking, teaching geometry by showing home layouts, or exploring environmental science through local issues like water conservation, students are found more curious, engaged, motivated, and involved.

Please share your favorite real-life examples used in the classroom or any innovative ideas that helped you make learning more meaningful and relatable for your students. What difference have you observed when students learn this way?

Let’s share experiences and inspire one another to build stronger learning connections for our students every day!

Hi everyone!
I’m Erum Zahid and I’m from Pakistan .

I work as a Junior Elementary School Teacher at a government school. What I love most about my job is making science meaningful and engaging for my students, especially by using hands-on activities and real-life examples.

Recently, I was honored to receive the "Visionary Teacher" title in a national competition for Best Teaching Practices. It was a proud moment to have my efforts recognized at such a high level!

In my free time, I enjoy music , exploring hands-on activities/worksheets for my kids, working on educational projects, participating in online trainings, competitions with my students, and learning about tools to bring technology into the classroom. I also like reading and exploring creative ways to enhance teaching.

Excited to connect and learn with all of you here!

Formative assessments are tools used to guide and improve both teaching and learning processes. They help uncover misunderstandings and learning gaps, allowing for timely adjustments and feedback. The goal is to enhance student understanding and instructional strategies.

Examples include: quizzes, classroom reflections, hinge questions, surveys, and collaborative activities.

Please share your favourite and effective formative assessment tools and it's impact on your students learning.

Hi dear,
Yes, it should be the key subject for the teaching in school, of not in the form of subject then at least should be the part of counselling member. Every time when we are dealing, motivating, acquiring answers from students, we are actually dealing with their emotions. This should not only be taught for students but for teachers too. for a healthy and smooth school environment, learning emotional intelligence is necessary for teacher and student both.

In today’s fast-paced, technology-driven classrooms where students are more digitally connected than ever.

Are we paying enough attention to their moral development and social well-being?

How can we balance digital learning with activities that promote moral and social development?

Can technology itself be used to promote values based education? If yes, how?

Let’s support each other in nurturing not just smart, but also kind and responsible future citizens.

@Izzeddin-Qasem, Hello Sir, I have seen your project and really impressed by the App you are using in your classroom, truly shows the inclusivity and empathy for grade 11 learners. The cover page is also dominant. Wish you all the best!

Respected Sir!
I am glad to hear your real life examples for the mathematics subject, this strategy will surely help students to retain their concepts for longer time. Mathematics goes simultaneously in our daily life and practical examples. Hope you and your students will enjoy more when exploring real world around you!

I really appreciate your strategy of increasing difficulty level, the more comfortable the child feels in class, the more he/she likely to engage or learn. One strategy could be make a group of these learners and initiate competitions in them for writing, reading and speaking, based on low level difficulties and the increase the difficulty level.

Hello!
What I believe is use of smart phones in junior classes won't be that much distracting, like students follow the instructions of teachers, guide them to open the required website/link, they will follow whatever instructed by teacher. For High school students, you need to be focused and have strong communication with them, give them time limit to read/explore, this will also be helpful, so that they won't go for browsing other stuff on smart phone.

Yes, recently we have invited the officers from Traffic police department in our school to motivate our students about their profession, teaching traffic signals and signs to protect them. The best part was the appearance of lady officer who presented her journey to the girls and motivate them to not only focused for teaching, engineering, or medical as their career but traffic police department is also equally important and welcomed girls to take this profession as their career.

Hi,
this is really a great approach to record and take feedback of students, I believe your students feel great encouragement and motivation to record their responses as podcast. I also agree this strategy gave chances for less speakers to speak and overcome their hesitation.

Hi dear,
Obviously, SLO plays the role of your destination where you want to reach, without prior work, estimations, route analysis, you can't achieve your destiny. SLO provides guidance to think of strategies as per the lesson, differentiating instructions as per the need of students and lastly to check if you have achieved in the end what you have planned or work out in the beginning.

Hi dear,
Both methods can be applied for grade 9 and 10 students depending upon the need and demand of SLOs of any given subject. For real life problems, project based learning will go good however for linguistic subjects, students need to explore and share their ideas in the form of discussions.

@Denis-Kudaimetov , Hello Sir, I would like to appreciate you for your outstanding work in collaborating your students with three different countries. Being a teacher, I can understand how much time and developmental plans you have to carried out for accomplishing your targets of different time periods. I really enjoy the part of online game with teachers using padlock.
Furthermore, I must say that this initiative definitely builds global communication, team work and digital skills amongst the students. Looking forward to learn from you in future as well. My best wishes for your project.
Regards,