Category: School Education
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Alif Laila Series of Ferozesons and my love for books
مجھے سب ہے یاد زرا زرا– تمہیں یاد ہو کہ نہ یاد ہو کس کو یاد ہے ان 6 کتب کی قدر مشترک؟ ملکہ شہرزاد حجام اور قزاق چین کی شہزادی گنجا لنگور سندباد کے سات سفر معروف موچی 1970 کی دہائی میں یہ کتب میری اسلام آباد میں “ملت لائبریری” کا حصہ تھیں جن…
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Tarzan and My Language Acquisition
ٹارزن کے جنگ اخبار میں روز شائع ہونے والے تصویری سلسلہ سے میں نے تقریباً 5-6 سال کی عمر میں اخبار پڑھنا شروع کیا– یہ 1967-68 کا زمانہ تھا– روز صبح امی، ابا یا بڑی بہنوں سے اصرار ہوتا تھا کہ وہ پڑھ کر سنائیں، اور شروع میں دو چار دفعہ ہر ایک نے سنایا–…
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Teachers at ICB/IMS
Sitting Sir Manzoor Ahmed Khan (English), Sir Nafees Siddiqui (English), Principal MKA Beg, Madam Shuja Zaidi (Headmistress), Sir Jan e Alam (Urdu), Sir Ghalib Raza (Urdu) This appears to be editorial board of Sumbul, school magazine
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Growing up with Magazines
In 1969-70 I was 7 when I started reading Taleem o Tarbiat and other magazines. We had almirahs shelves full of magazine issues going back to early 1960s and to even mid 1950s. Old issues of subscriptions of Taleem o Tarbiat, Bachon ki Duniya, Naunehal, Khilona which were children magazines. And magazines for my elder…
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ICB/IMSB Teachers Autographs 1975-80
Tribute to my school teachers who laid the foundation for my learning at ICB (Islamabad Model School for Boys) G-6/3 near Covered Bazar/Melody. Autographs from 1975 and 1980: Sir Ghalib Raza (Urdu) Sir Hanif Tahir (Maths) Sir Subhan Ullah (Geography) Sir Rafique Malik (English) Sir Jan e Alam (Urdu) Sir Sabir Raza (Urdu) I regret…
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Understanding the Four Critical Stages of LMS Technology Assimilation- A Case Study of a Pakistani University
At IoBM, we crashed into the use of LMS at a breakneck speed. However, our assimilation of LMS (Learning Management System) which is just another technology is following the well known critical stages of assimilation of technology [1]. We had started our implementation in Fall 2019 and by the time the lockdown happened we had…
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My Most Memorable Readings- Tilism e Hoshrub and Dastan e Amir Hamza
My most memorable experience of reading Urdu books was the time spent in reading of Ferozsons’ Tilism e Hoshruba and Dastan e Ameer Hamza. ذندگی کے بہترین لمحات ان کتب کے ساتھ گزرے- اللہ تعالٰی مقبول جہانگیر اور اختر رضوی کے درجات بلند کرے- میں نے یہ کتب تیسری جماعت میں پڑھنی شروع کی- پہلی…
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Documentaries related to Pakistan Studies and Partition of India
Partition: Borders of Blood : Al Jazeera Documentary: In this two-part special, 101 Easttraces the events and conflicting politics that led to the greatest migration of people in human history, and unleashed a wave of communal violence that claimed more than a million lives. How India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh were formed: Animation by Al Jazeera: How…
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Examples of How Children Fail
In “How Children Fail”, the acclaimed author John Holt describes how children stop using their mind, and fail. It is quite evident from the example pic below that the child was using his mind. Unfortunately, the teacher was grading “mindlessly” from the key that he had. This example is not an isolated case. There are…
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Can a Child Learn a Foreign Language without obtaining full competency in First language
بچے کی زہنی نشو نما و خود اعتمادی کا گلا گھوٹنا ہو تو اس کو “پہلی زبان” پر دسترس ہونے سے قبل انگریزی زبان کے جبر میں قید کر دیں I got this comment on the above FB post: Actually kids can learn multiple languages early in life a lot easier than later. But the…
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Essential Orientation for Teachers and Faculty Members
Essential Orientation for Faculty Members, Teachers and Facilitators embarking on a journey to understand experiential learning and weaning away from the conventional mode of teaching. In my opinion this is the minimum level of understanding required by teachers of schools and universities.To maximally gain from this material, watch the following videos and read the following blog…
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A Tribute to Cricket for Spearheading my English Language Acquisition – Sports and Language Learning
I often see parents worrying about language skills of their children. A closer look at the hobbies of such children will indicate that they are not passionate about any hobbies especially sports. Here I would detail the role of cricket in spearheading my English language acquisition. As my interest grew, with cricket and started following…
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Power of Word in Value Based Education: Discriminating Truth from Falsehood
Honorable Prime Minister, Group Chairperson City School, dignitaries, educationists, teachers and my dear students. I thank the organizers for giving me the opportunity to speak about value based education, some thing that is near and dear to my heart. Power of Word emanates from the depth of our feelings. Words are only words unless they…
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Parental Concern about Economic Future of our Child
I often see parents excessively worried about the economic future of their child. They are often projecting their own insecurities and their own inadequacies on their children despite a huge difference in their situation as a child and their child’s current situation. Their over-worrying about the economic future of child belies their faith and eeaman…
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To Kill a Mockingbird: A Personal Journey
I was around 10 when I saw the movie “To Kill a Mocking Bird” on PTV in 1971-72. That was the time when I didn’t focus on the dialogues but used to only concentrate on the emotions and feelings depicted. We didn’t have access to Internet or magazines with briefs about the programs or movies…
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How to Create Love for Poetry: A Tribute to Sir Ghalib Raza of ICB
Over the last 25 years as I desperately try to connect my students with the joy of reading and poetry, at universities and at schools , I realize the worth of what Sir Ghalib Raza was achieving in my school days. He was making us “feel” the poetry, not “understand” it. Poetry is meant for “feeling”…
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Myth: Government Universities Cost Less than Private Universities
This post explores the myth that Public Universities Cost Lower than Private Universities. I think the average cost per student per year of a public university is much more than that of a private university. Given below is a preliminary analysis. A more detailed analysis is required. 2005-2006 Analysis of Public sector universities indicates that:…
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How Readers are Created. Ecosystem that Produces Readers
How can we create readers and an ecosystem where readers can thrive. How do we make reading a contagious disease when our educational institutions from schools to universities have become mass producers of functional illiterates [1]. Universities complain that they are getting intake that has studied English for 12 years but have no reading comprehension and…
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How Schools Teach Students to Hate Reading: Mass Creation of Non-Readers
Schools are producing graduates who know how to read but are not readers. They have become non-readers (functional illiterates) because the schools have taught them to hate reading! Functional Illiteracy Schools typically use a curriculum and methodology that consists of senseless and meaningless worksheets and exercises which the students are forced to do repeatedly, continuously…
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How to become a Life-Long Learner: Mission of Developing Life-Long Learners
This is the first orientation of new students of IoBM over the last 23 years, where our founder president, Mr Shahjehan Karim is not present. He left us for the hereafter last month. Inna lillahe wa inna ilaihi rajioon. He worked tirelessly all his life to make a world a better place. This institution of…
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Why People Hate Poetry? Because Schools have Taught them to Hate Poetry!
Why people hate poetry? Because schools did not teach them “to love poetry” but they actually taught them “to hate poets and their poetry”. If you want students “to hate poetry” ask them to (1) write explanations (tashreeh) of poems, and (2) memorize life history and style (tarz-e-kalam) of poets, (3) associate grades with their…
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5 Major Misconceptions of Muslim Parents regarding Parenting Challenges of the 21st Century
[Themes of this post were presented at Forward Institute for Educational Bridgework Seminar on Jan 27, 2016. ] Note: This post is specifically written for Muslim parents and presupposes reader’s belief in Quran and Sunnah. Over the last few years I have come across Muslim parents who are making extra effort in following Sunnah. However,…
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Why Students Avoid and Stop Taking the Course of Some Teachers: 7 Top Reasons
Over the last 37 years in higher education as student (from 1980-94), and as faculty member and academic administrator (since 1995), I have come across scores of instances where students went out of the way to avoid certain teachers, dropped the course en-mass, ganged up to remove the teacher, walked out or simply dropped the…
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Why Educational Experiments are “Doomed” to Succeed?
It is often said that all educational experiments are doomed to succeed [1]. Here is my different take on this from the perspective of an educational reformer and educational leader. There are tons of methodologies, experiments, strategies and their resources that are available to teachers. However, when a teacher designs a new educational experiment, it…
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Abuse of Presentation Slides in Classrooms: Ban Powerpoint Presentations
Problems with Powerpoint Presentations in Classroom A couple of weeks ago I came to deliver a presentation in a seminar after four speakers who were delivering a technical talk to the business owners using powerpoint and speaking in English, which is the second or third language of the speakers and the audience. I could see…
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What Students Expect from their Teachers: Roles and Responsibilities of Teachers
Core of the following talk was presented at 3rd Conference of Deans and Directors of Business Schools organized by NBEAC at PC Lahore, Feb17-18, 2016. The talk was presented during the session Roles and Responsibilities of Business Schools’ Teachers: Perspectives of Students. This talk is based on my experiences of managing the expectations of students…
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Harmful Effects of Comparing Siblings and Children
Biggest torture (zulm) on a child that can be done by a parent is “comparing the child with a sibling or some other child”. For example here is the complaint of a mother of two children: “Comparison starts as early as one month; He was active, but this child is so weak… He walked so…