Posts made by Yousuf Memon

@Sayeda-Afshan
Yes you are right. Students like appreciation. Just as you appreciated your student by writing "you are my little shining star" you have asked with what words we will like to appreciate our students? I would like to appreciate my students with these wirds "you are Hero" "you are a beacon of light" etc.

A child spends most of his time at home in comparison with school. Parents know better their chid's habits, attitudes and reactions to actions than teachers. For the educational wefare of childrens their should be close relations between home and school.
How can better relations between home and school be established? What steps school administration take to establish relations between home and school? What role a teacher can play in this respect? Share your ideas.

Re: How to Evolute the project of others regards compitation

@Rafia-Khokhar
To evaluate the projects of others you should keep in mind four things; (1) Relevance (2) Scability (3) Innovstion and (4) Interactivity
(1) Is it related with the topic? Does it reflect the topic?
(2) can it be replicated to other schools?
(3) Is it innovative?
(4) Is the content interacting?
Keeping these four things projects of others are evaluated. You should give weightage to each when evaluating.
Yousuf Memon from Matiari Sindh Pakistan

Re: Inclusive teaching

@Irum-8ce591a061
Yes, Irum, you are doing good job giving proper attention and care to those students who have some disabilities, slow learners and those who shy and have not confidence or have less confidence. Dealing with such students is some how difficult but a good teacher is he/she who gives special attention to these students. I'm also of the opinion that proper attention and care should be given to these students. Learning opportunities should be given to these students to make them useful persons of the society. It is s responsibility of a good teacher to teach all kinds of students equally so as all feel valued and take interest in learning. All students should be given equal opportunities of learning. I appreciate your efforts.

@Zakia-soomro
First we will have to understand the modern new trends in education at world level. In this respect first we should think about 21st century needs in education. So as we can bring our education system at world level. We will have to introduce technology in our education system properly so as our students can compete at world level. All digital skills should be taught to our students. Digitals tools should be given to schools. Internet facility should be given to all schools. In this way we can make our education system better. Community involvement is also necessary.

Re: Flipped Classroom Implementation: Share Your Experiences!

@Basse9b9f534802
Yeah I've tried the flipped classroom approach in my teaching. I record my lectures and upload on my youtube channel . My students watch these videos before coming to class. In class they work in groups and in pairs and take part in discussion. They give presentation also. I've observed that students are very active and concentrated. They take interest in different activities and learn more and easily than traditional teaching in which they are passive and learn less than flipped classroom approach. Their critical thinking, problem solving, communication and collaborative skills are improved in flipped classroom approach. They grasp knowledge more easily while working with their fellow students.

Yousuf Memon from Pakistan
High School Teacher and Teacher Trainer by British Council.

Yeah I'm also of the opinion that the children affected by difficult home environment should be given proper counseling to remove their anxiety and distress so as they becone normal and take interest in studies and be saved from problematic behavior. In this respect counseling of their parents is also necessary.

Re: Connecting Classrooms to Real Life: Making Learning Effective Through Everyday Real Life Examples

Yes, you are right in syaing linking lessons to real-life examples transforms how students engage with learning. You've asked very difficult question how do we link our our lessons to real life? I teach languge, English to students of grade ten. I'm finding it difficult to tell you how do I link my lesson to real life? Any way I dare to tell you. I don't know whether you will satisfy with my example or not. I give you one example here. When I teach Direct Indirect Speech to my students. First of all I call three students in front of class. I ask student A to say student B something. Then I ask student C to ask student B what did he say to you? The student B will tell Student C what the student A said to him. This is a conversation in real life. Then I teach how to convey a message of one person to another person. Another way of communication is Chinese Whisper. The students stand in a queue. One student gives message to student standing in front. He gives messsge to next student standing behind him. In this way the message is to be conveyed to last student. In the end it is asked from the last student what message did he get. Whether he got complete message or not. Thirdly when teaching any lesson I link its some parts with real life so as students can understand the lesson fully. In this way I've found students concentrated on the topic. They don't divert their attention to anywhere else. But when we don't link our lessons with real life, the students don't become concentrated and their attention diverts to somewhere else and they don't understand the topic fully. They become very lazy and are sitting in class like statues. So it is necesssry to link lessons with real life. As it is said "Education is not to prepare for life but education is life itself".
Yousuf Memon
High school teacher at Govt: MDM High School Matiari Sindh Pakistan.

Re: Flipped Classroom Implementation: Share Your Experiences!
I have applied Flipped Classroom approach to my teaching. I record my lectures and upload videos on my youtube channel youtube.com/gelccmatiari and ask students to watch videos on my youtube channel before coming to class. Moreover I've created whatsapp group of my class where I share videos of my youtube channel. The students watch these videos and come to classroom prepared. In classroom they take part in group work, pair work, discussion and presentation. This approach has enhanced students engagement and interest in learning. I've faced some challanges. These challanges include some students don't have access to internet and digital tools so they can't watch my videos, second challange is second language problem. Videos are in second language that is english so some students face to understand words properly. I comeover these challanges by making my videos shorter and understandable by using simple words so as students can understand. I've encouraged parrent's support and providing offline options.

How far is "Creativity" skill important for school children?

All 21st century skills are essential but in my opinion in all these skills creativity is the most important skill for children. All other skills have secondary importance but creativity has primary importance in my opinion. Creativity is such a skill which can lead a child to his livelyhood earning by himself easily and which will make him self sufficient. I don't deny other skills. No doubt they are also essential. So a child child should be taught different 21st century skills along with creativity.

You are really doing great work. No doubt oceans are full of treasures. To give knowledge about them to students is necessary and you are doing so in a very best way.

Hello, every one I'm Yousuf Memon from Pakistan. I'm a High School Teacher and Teachers Trainer also. I'm certified Teacher Trainer for English by British Council. I want to take part in Teaching in the 21st Century 3.0 Teachers Competition.

@Tabassumlaghari
In my classroom I create inclusive environment where my students feel safe and give them responsibilities without discrimination of their different background. I motivate my students by my positive behavior first. Then assign different roles to students of different background. By assigning roles they feel happiness become responsible and motivated.

@Tabassumlaghari
Besides the strategies told by you some other strstegies in my opinion for instilling the sense of responsibility and motivation among students from diverse background can be:

1. Foster positive and invlusive classroom environment. For this respect their culture diversity and use language that is respectful. Create classroom environment where students feel safe to express themselves.
2. Clearly communicate expectations for behavior, academic performance and responsibilities. Assign roles and responsibilities to students. Help students set personal and academic goals.
3. Incorporate regular self-reflection activities where students assess their own progress, behavior and contribution.
4. Provide meaningful and relevant learning experiences.
5. Differentiate instruction to meet diverse needs.
6. Build strong relationships
7. Regularly acknowlege and celebrate students achievements.
8. Empower students to make choice.
9. Teach resilience and growth mindset.
   By implementing these strategies you can help students from diverse backgrounds develop a strong sense of responsibility and motivation that will serve them well both in school and in their future endeavors.

@Ana_moderator
Now I'm getting notificstion.
Regards

@sabahatjamil
No doubt energizers are necessary for engaging students in the clasdroom. Students not only learn a lot from them but get more energy to learn more.

@Engr-Zeeshan
I think they can be developed and controlled through effort and practice.
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Sir, you have started a good topic for discusdion.
Absolutely happiness plays vital role in educstion. When a teacher enters the clsssroom he should be in happy mood. In this way the students will feel easy and they will learn more than in fear. Fear makes students dull. First of all a should remove fear from studdnts mind then he should start teaching. Jn this way students will learn more easily. Then school administration should also make principles for establishment of happiness in school so as all students of school remain in hsppy mood.