As teachers, what we write and how we write it can have a big impact on students and their parents. In this month’s Ilm o Amal, TRC staff gives valuable tips on how to make writing reports less overwhelming, what to say, how to cushion criticism and praise appropriately.
Teaching is immensely fulfilling and there is no other profession like it. But it is not easy! In this month’s Ilm o Amal, Alizeh Zainab Razvi delves into the considerable stresses that teachers experience and looks at how to overcome them and maintain your work-life balance.
As they explore and play, young preschool children frequently talk out loud to themselves. In this month’s Ilm o Amal, Nuvaira A Dhedhi looks at how self talk contributes to young children’s language skills.
The internet can be a great resource or a great distraction depending on how children use it. For this month’s Ilm o Amal, Ayesha Umair has compiled a list of ten websites that teachers and parents should be aware of and that will add an element of interactivity to the learning process.
Under its ‘Thinking Classroom’ project, TRC has been supporting teachers in using diverse strategies to teach content in creative ways that stimulate critical thinking skills in children in classrooms across Pakistan. In this month’s Ilm o Amal, written by Alizeh Zainab Razvi and TRC staff, the writers explore the concept of critical thinking and look at ways that adults can support young children in developing this skill.
Assessment should be a diagnostic tool of learning, yet it often ends up becoming a means to control learning. In this month’s Ilm o Amal, Rubina Naqvi looks at different methods of assessment and explores the qualities an accurate and fair system of assessment should have.
If a teacher is to maintain control of a class it is important that she been seen as someone who is fair. In this month’s Ilm o Amal, we explore the concept of fairness in a classroom and share a few tips that teachers can use to ensure impartiality.
Copy-pasting is killing the quest for originality in our students. What is plagiarism? What are its moral ramifications? Do students even realise that plagiarism is a form of cheating? And what can teachers do to curb this menace? These are just some of the questions Sana Lone raises in this month’s Ilm o Amal.
The simplest way to motivate a child is by rewarding him. In the long run, however a direct relationship between reward and motivation can quickly backfire. In this article, Aliya Ladiwala explores reward and motivation and also the ways and means to intrinsically motivate a child.
If utilised properly, school assemblies can serve as powerful motivators for the entire school community. In this article, TRC speaks to various schools to find out how they conduct effective morning assemblies and why they continue with the tradition.
