Education Policies

Someone Read Aloud Before A Child Goes To School One of my previous articles was on the topic ‘The Power of Story Reading in Early Grades’ in which I tried to elaborate the Importance of story reading along with some strategies to read and tell story for young children. This article is also relevant to the previous one. It talks about ‘Read Aloud To A Child Before He Go To The School’. The article put emphasis on the parents and teachers to read loudly for their child and make it regular practice at home to lay a strong foundation for learning. I would strongly recommend the parents and teachers to read this article and share it with all your friends and relatives.  Children who successfully learn to read in the early age are well prepared to read for learning and for pleasure in the years to come. On the other hand, children who struggle with reading in lower Grades at a serious disadvantage. Academically, they have a much harder time and they increasingly fall behind in other sub...

The Power of Story Reading in Early Grades When I was very young my grand- father used to tell me stories daily at night. I loved the stories very much and insisted my grandfather to re-tell the stories; mostly which were about fairies, animals, emperors and the people from different planets. I still remember some of them. While listening the stories from my grandfather I had great curiosity and fun watching expressions and emotions as he elaborated. This practice showed me an entirely imaginative world where I could see big forests, colorful skies, beautiful fairies with long brown hair, men with unusual heights, huge flying saucers and so on. Gradually this story listening embarked my curiosity and interest towards reading. But I could only had my text books and my siblings’ ones that I used to read many times for my pleasure. This reading taste later embed in my personality where I could attract towards reading books, novels and newspaper though I couldn’t as we had no such readi...

Don’t Reinvent the Wheel Nelson Mandela says, “Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world”. If education is so then why people take it for granted? I mean private education system! Yes, we observe that several people are running their own schools and earning huge amount in the name of education. When I started to write on this topic I recalled Ms. Tabinda (synonym) in my mind who runs her own school. Ms. Tabinda runs a Primary School in a village in District Rahimyar Khan. The school is situated in a narrow and dense street in a congested building. All the classrooms are too small to accommodate the children in. There is no play ground to carry hands on activities in the school. Since 2007, Ms. Tabinda is running this school with around 300 children and 6 teachers. During my visit I found Ms. Tabinda a very dedicated and enthusiastic head teacher and a leader struggling for the change. The story did not ended up rather it began when I explored about Ms. T...