Education Policies

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 re...

Need to bring Personalized Learning into Teaching     Traditional classroom setting and typical school environment foster limited pace for life- long learning. Teachers in such school setting put their efforts to deliver a set of curriculum and instructions to produce toppers and A+ grade makers. Without knowing a child’s individual needs and learning quest our education system teach the same knowledge and skills to every one which results low progress and lack of productive outcomes in education. Considering this perspective modern education demands personalized learning as more than just a helpful framework for teachers and educators. Personalized learning is a way of thinking about an innate human quest that each of us is born into and pursues throughout our lifetime. When a child opens his eyes in the world he/she cries to inform the world that I am here and arrived to you. Hear me, feed me, see me, cuddle me, change me, love me and help me (Fogarty, 2016). As child...

When improving learning becomes a priority, great progress is possible Key players in education rarely determine learning outcomes of the classroom teaching. Education research and studies represent low interest and lack of focus towards students learning outcomes as their priority. Various factors and consequences can be seen regarding the issue; First and essential priority is the personal interest which divert individuals attention and focus from classroom effectiveness and students learning as many education actors have different interests beyond learning. Observations of public schools explore that, the representatives of education department try to preserve their positions and powers. Administrators may focus more on keeping politicians and teachers happy than on promoting students learning may simply try to protect their own positions. Similarly private suppliers of education such as building contractors, textbooks providers and others struggle to get more profit on delivery th...

On The Job Support A Step To Improve Teaching And Learning Professional learning practices among teachers in school create a context for teachers’ collective engagement through sustained efforts and brings improvement in teaching and learning. Unfortunately in Pakistan most of the teachers are not getting proper support from their supervisors or principals in teaching and classroom instructions which brings greater deficiency in improving teaching and daily planning. This discourages teachers morally and results in low impact on children’s learning performance.   Research in modern education put greater emphasis on educators and school experts to provide on the job support to teachers in improving day to day practices in schools. The resulting research shows that teachers who receive continuous professional development can increase their students’ achievement at greater level (Yoon 2007). My personal experiences as an educator and mentor report significant effects on teach...