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This action plan by Ms. Nighat Haque from The City School, Grade 9, focuses on changing questioning strategies, encouraging collaboration, and promoting critical thinking in Urdu. The short-term goals include emphasizing process over answers and fostering student collaboration. Challenges like principal's approval and lack of resources are addressed with solutions like sharing course material and staying back to use the computer lab. Long-term goals involve adopting modern teaching methods to improve Urdu appreciation. Instructional strategies include group discussions, higher-order thinking questions, and multimedia applications. By implementing these strategies, Ms. Haque aims to enhance students' understanding and engagement with the Urdu language.
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Action Plan Ms. Nighat Haque The City School Urdu, Grade -9
Short –Term Goals • Change my questioning strategies with students to promote critical thinking • Focus on encouraging students instead of praising • Focus on the Urdu process students use to get an answer, not just the answer itself • Encourage collaboration among students • Help students understand that they can use each other as resources
Challenges The principal may not agree with my new approach Parents may not understand my methods I do not own a computer There may be some students who do not want to work together Solutions will share the course manual and my notes from this course with my principal I will use my new word processing skills to create newsletter to inform parents of my new methods I will stay after school to use a computer in school’s computer lab. to create productivity tools I will randomly group students to encourage collaboration with all class members Solution to Anticipated Challenges
Timeline • November • September • January • March
Long-Term Goal • Adopt 21st century teaching approaches to enhance students’ appreciation of Urdu
I will provide more opportunities to students to answer questions that require higher-order thinking I will provide students with time for groups discussion I will ask questions that require students to explain how they came to an answer I will allow students to gather in randomly assigned groups or pairs to discuss how to best solve Urdu problems Instructional Strategies and Tasks
Other teacher who teach my same grade subject Internet Word processing , multimedia and spreadsheets applications Intel teach program Getting Started Course manual Resources