Pakistani Educational Leadership Narrative: GHULAM JELANI

Mr. Ghulam Jelani

About me

Profession:
I am working as an academic coordinator and secondary school educator in private sector ( Chiniot Islamia School and College, Faisalabad running under supervision of Chiniot Educational Society)
Province:
Punjab: Punjab means the land of five rivers, a richly populated area covering 51.6% of total country’s population. The province is bordered by Kashmir to the north-east, the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan to the east, the Pakistani province of Sindh to the south, the province of Baluchistan to the southwest, the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the west, and the Islamabad Capital Territory to the north. The Punjab is home to the Punjabis and various other groups. The main languages are Punjabi and Saraiki and the dialects of Mewati and Potowari. Lahore has traditionally been the capital of Punjab for a thousand years; it is Punjab's main cultural, historical, administrative and economic center.
Punjabi are educated, well cultured and civilized people and are simple by nature. Punjabi foods are very spicy and healthy.

Personal interests:
I like to be a teacher, because teacher is a change trigger. I like the energetic and full of zeal community. Other than it, I like to eat good, like to wear good, like to teach good and I like to have fun with my son and family on holidays.
I like to read books of any type, but most of them based on sciences, computers and literature. I love Internet surfing and found a lot of information and some teachers resources also.
I like the classic music with piano, flute and drums having good melody.
Family:
I live with my father and mother, having three brothers and two sisters. I had one child from my late wife. I love to my son, named SAFI-UR-REHMAN.
Goals for the future:
We aim to provide quality education with a fine blend of character building and moral values to the future hopes of Pakistan.
We provide modern education to less privileged members of society at an affordable cost through highly qualified and trained staff.
I want to lead my educational community with commitment, integrity, motivation, dedication and by showing respects to students and to their questions.
So my possible future goals are;
(1) To make my teaching methodology more interactive
(2) To make students confident and hardworking.
(3) Building broad-minded and positive nation.

CHINIOT ISLAMIA SCHOOL AND COLLEGE, FAISALABAD

http://www.cis.edu.pk/

Chiniot Islamia School Faisalabad has been set up by the Chiniot Education Society (A Welfare organization established by the philanthropists of Chiniot Sheikh Beradry) to serve the nation and provide quality education at a very low cost to the masses irrespective of casts & creed or political / ethnic affiliation. By the grace of Allah the school started function from the academic session 2001 under the supervision of highly qualified staff (M.A/M.Sc/B.Ed). The school has begun its work with the noble objective of welfare of general public on "No profit no loss" basis.

Chiniot Islamia School & College is purely a service oriented venture and is being run on "Not for profit basis". We pledge to achieve excellence in education. The cherished goal of this institution is to earn honor and distinction by maintaining standards in curricular activities of SSC/HSC Boards as well as in extra and co-curricular activities.

Vision:

Chiniot Islamic School & College aims to emerge as a comprehensive, dedicated to excellence and committed to Islamic cum international education institute suitable to any child in community.

Mission:

We aim to provide quality education with a fine blend of character building and moral values to the future hopes of Pakistan.
We provide modern education to less privileged members of society at an affordable cost through highly qualified and trained staff.
May Allah Almighty help us to achieve our mission.

Premises & Building:

Chiniot Islamic School & college is located on the west of the Canal Road, Faisal Town Faisalabad on an area measuring 11 Canals. It is easily accessible both from West Canal Road, and Sheikhupura Road. The Urban transport route # 11 & 3 connect it with the city. The building and facilities promote a good environment for the promotion of health educational progress and the wellbeing of students. It is kept clean, safe and is used in the best possible manner for the educational and creative enhancement of students.

Class Rooms:

The building now comprises of two blocks. i.e. Boys Section & Girls Section. Both Sections have three floors; Basements, Ground and first. There are 51 class rooms which are purpose built. Spacious, well lit, hygienic and airy with adequate natural cross ventilation. All class rooms are well equipped with proper furniture, fixture & fittings. The building has an administrative section, which has offices of Principal, Administrator, Accountant, Purchase Officer, Photo copy Section and Controller of Examination.
The Classrooms have been furnished according to chidings physical size and needs. Each classroom is equipped with a white board to avoid chalk dust. All rooms are decorated with large size soft boards, where students may paste their projects and display their creative work.

Canteen:

The institution has a vast open space within the boundary as a canteen. Quality edibles, text books, stationary and other items are available at reasonable cost. The food items are routinely monitored ensure hygiene and quality.

Play Area:

A well maintained, beautiful grassy lawn cum playground is available.

Library/Resources Room:

A special library containing more than 10,000 books including reading material, both common place and subject specific is present.

A qualified and trained librarian is employed in the library all the time to help students of junior classes. Reference books like encyclopedia, dictionaries, reference material, charts, maps and CD's are also kept in resource room. AV aids prepared by the teachers are also present in library. Regular library periods are provided in the time table for the students.

Nursing Room:

A well-equipped sick room is available with a well maintained First Aid Box and a trained teacher.
The sick room caters for all emergencies and first aid requirements.

Transport:

Transport is available only for female teaching staff on designed route. A project for arrangement of conveyance for students is under consideration.

Halls:

Three spacious halls are available with a seating capacity of 300 persons in each for functions, lectures and other collective activities.

Faculty:

The institution has qualified, experienced and dedicated faculty to impart quality education. Every year a vigorous in service training workshop ensures that teachers remain in current with latest methodologies.

Administrative Staff:

A group of efficient and committed administrative accountants and supporting staff for the maintenance and upkeep of the records, documents and premises, and to help teachers and the students in optimizing their time and efforts.

Science Labs:

Well-equipped and extensive laboratories for Physics, Chemistry & Biology are available, which fulfill all requirements
up to degree level. All laboratories are equipped with latest apparatus, models, charts and slides. The atmosphere/environment of laboratories motivates the students for inquiry, research and investigation through experiments.

Computer Labs:

Two computer labs separate for boys and girls with Pentium IV PCs are available with printing and internet facility.
DSL connection is present for better communication.

The Curriculum:

Following the national curriculum, we set out the scheme of studies to be covered by the children as they progress through the institution. Our curriculum covers the major subjects of English, Maths, Science and Computer Science and the foundation subjects of Urdu, Islamiat and Social Studies.

We offer our students everything necessary for grooming of educated, groomed and self-disciplined citizens of Pakistan.

Our broad based curriculum places a high priority on numeracy and literacy, which gives every child a chance to shine.

Community Service Program:

CISC always give preference to community services, so last year, when nation struck by a natural calamity of dengue fever in Pakistan, CISC published the brochures for the community and distributed in the whole local community.

Needs For My Institute:

Our institute has good resources for the students and the teachers also, but some of the needs are;
Curriculum Development

In Pakistan, curriculum is developed by province (state). We have mandatory curriculum to follow in board going classes i.e. 5th, 8th, 9th, 10th and Intermediate classes. However at primary level and middle level we develop our curriculum at institute privately.

Our teacher needs training on curriculum development according to international level.

Staff Development

Teacher’s continuous training and development is always helpful to increase the students learning capacity. So we need to train my staff.

Reference books and Access to digital library

I saw, at Philips’s academy and Kennet High School, a lot of necessary teacher’s resources like computer access and reference access to the students. Our classroom is missing these necessary resources.

Teacher’s Resources
For better teaching practices teacher needs;

Specific budget

Stationary

Computer, internet, printer, scanner and copier

Computer literacy

Access to reference books and digital library.

Sports

It is said that if you have sound body then you have sound mind. Sports are necessary for the students because they can learn a lot of moral values and kinesthetic education from sports and games and our school is short of such sports facilities.

Some of the facilities need to provide are;

Cricket accessories

Badminton accessories

Table tennis (ping pong) accessories.

Non-Sibi Reflection

Community Services:

I campaigned for the Ali Zaib Foundation (working on Hemophilia and Thalassemia) and arranged a donation of Rs. 35000/- for them.

I participated in the camping for flood relief and earth quake relief in Pakistan and arranged food and clothing for the affected persons from our village.

There was a campaign in the Pakistan run by ITA, (an NGO) working for the better education in Pakistan. The campaign was to make one million signatures from the community so that they put forward their demand to the Government for the legislation of free education for all up to secondary level. I participated in this program and made 2000 signatures from my society, students and colleagues.

Why I do these Non-Sibi deeds?
God gave me knowledge, skills, and other blessings, so I always felt pleased to serve His creation.
It is said in our society, “Do good have good”. I do these types of activities so that I may help those who are not able to help themselves.

Reflection on Max Warburg Reflection

It is courageous program under North Eastern University. It provides the students courage to write. In this way they can improve their language skills and composition skills. I like their magazine especially because it is always interactive and motivated activities for the students to publish their writings on international forums.

Elizabeth was a good communicator and she encourage us to make our students to write an essay on courage and they will publish it in their 2013 magazine. It will improve the creative writing skills in our country.
Reflection for Washington DC
Expectation before Trip
Washington DC is the capital of united State and has special place in US. I think there will be lot of fun there. Visit to US cultural and historical places or political places are expected. Other than it, meeting with the US officials or with the officials of US department of State is possible. However there will be a lot of opportunities or cultural learning too. Therefore we are so excited and waiting for 22nd July to fly for Washington DC.
It is our wish to see white house and the Mr. President as well.
After Tour

“Washington DC is Washington DC” and there is no alternate of it. It is marvelous, beautiful, wonderful, historical, fabulous, awesome, old and modern (and all other words that can be said in the praise of city are included). It was fun visiting Kabab Palace, trolley tour of the town and visiting museums. I enjoyed interactions and sharing at the Senate house ( heart SOB and Russell), Pakistani Embassy, at ADAMS and VOICE OF AMERICA; learning at every corner of the city.

We learn about the history of America by viewing many statues, monuments and meetings.

I especially enjoyed the Smithsonian Air and space museum and saw a lot of models, simulations and memorials of aircrafts and spaceships. It was a type of experiential learning. I also visited the Smithsonian National History museum and learned about the fossils, gems, stuffed models of different animals and marine life fossils. I especially like the paleontology of dinosaurs and all other extinct animals as well.

I visited Alexandria, the old city built in the mid of 18th century. The bottom line is that we are going to miss Washington DC all the time.

Research Reflection

Student to Teacher Engagement

Personal Point of view

A general concept about our education system is not so good. Especially our examination system and the qualification of the teachers and some other problems in education system are yet debatable. The most critical issue is mostly happened in the classrooms where teachers are usually the king and make the students to just memorize the text and create a perception like this……..

What is the reason behind this perception? Our teacher doesn’t make their lesson interactive and doesn’t add activities in their lesson and just speak out before White board with monotonous tone. As the students are not are not get engaged in class rooms, they get bored and do not take part in learning activities whole heartedly.

Student teacher engagement is more important even than the subject knowledge of the teacher. If a teacher doesn’t know the students psyche, he can’t engage his class. Here are some steps to increase the student teacher engagement (STE),

Create an Emotionally Safe Classroom

Create an Intellectually Safe Classroom

Cultivate Your Engagement Meter

Create Appropriate Intermediate Steps

Practice Journal or Blog Writing to Communicate with Students

Create a Culture of Explanation Instead of a Culture of the Right Answer

Teach Self-Awareness About Knowledge

Use Questioning Strategies That Make All Students Think and Answer

Practice Using the Design Process to Increase the Quality of Work

Market Your Projects

(DATA SOURCE: “Ten Steps to Better Student Engagement” FROM

http://www.edutopia.org/project-learning-teaching-strategies )

There are various methods to enhance STE as Ernestine G. Riggs and Cheryl R. Gholar write various domains for teachers in “Strategies that promote student engagement (2^nd edition). These domains are as follows;

Other than it, the teachers can also use the checklist to observe their student teacher engagement.

(International center for leadership in education : Student engagement teacher handbook)

Non-Sibi Reflection

Community Services:

I campaigned for the Ali Zaib Foundation (working on Hemophilia and Thalassemia) and arranged a donation of Rs. 35000/- for them.
I participated in the camping for flood relief and earth quake relief in Pakistan and arranged food and clothing for the affected persons from our village.
There was a campaign in the Pakistan run by ITA, (an NGO) working for the better education in Pakistan. The campaign was to make one million signatures from the community so that they put forward their demand to the Government for the legislation of free education for all up to secondary level. I participated in this program and made 2000 signatures from my society, students and colleagues.

Why I do these Non-Sibi deeds?

God gave me knowledge, skills, and other blessings, so I always felt pleased to serve His creation.

It is said in our society, “Do good have good”. I do these types of activities so that I may help those who are not able to help themselves.

MASTER ACTION PLAN

In my community, we have computer and internet resources. Teachers can put any kind of strategies in their classroom by the use of IT. Because it is said that people don’t know anything but the Google knows everything.

My Vision:

I want to raise my community up to best standards of humanity.

My mission:

I am dedicated towards the education of the society so I want to develop my society with high moral values and quality education. I think that I touch the future, because I teach.

My Goal:

My goal is to enhance student learning capacity through the training of educators in modern technology (IT technologies) and pedagogy (student engagement activities).

Objectives:

After the successful completion of the goal, approximately 1500 students of my community will be benefited through trained teachers. Teachers from my school and from near about school will be invited to free training by me and another IT-Expert.

Specific Objectives:

Teachers will be able to;

Use Microsoft word to make important notes and to design different type of activities on MS-Word.
Make slides of their lecture on MS-Power point.
E-mail their students.
Make videos of different students and activities to improve student engagement
Use “In page”, an Urdu word Processor.
Use digital camera, printer and multimedia projector.
Use net meeting for sharing desktop screen or virtual meeting with the students.
Utilize their social media resources.
Search educational resources like videos, articles, research papers, books and encyclopedias.

Procedure:

General Procedure of the class

Each session will be conducted on Saturday s only and its duration will four hours. The possible time division is

8:00-9:30 demonstration

9:30-10:00 tea break

10:00-12:00 practice session

Day 1:

Procedural Activity:

Purpose and agenda of training
Pre-test
Explaining the basics of MS-Word that can help the teacher to write subject notes.

Resources Required:

Stationary
Computer
Printer
Photo copies
Multimedia projector
Refreshment baker items and tea

Classroom Strategy:

Demonstration
Brain storming
Presentation
Practical activity
Group practice

Day 2:

Procedural Activity:

Making slides of power point

Resources Required:

Stationary
Computer
Printer
Photo copies
Multimedia projector
Refreshment baker items and tea

Class room Strategy:

Grouping
Presentation by participants

Day 3:

Procedural Activity:

Making email addresses of all participants.
Procedures to compose, read and manage the emails.
Utilization of social media in education

Resources Required:

Stationary
Computer
Printer
Photo copies
Multimedia projector
Refreshment baker items and tea

Classroom Strategy:

Demonstration
Individual support will be provided to all participants.

Day 4:

Procedural activity:

Introduction to the phonetic key board of Urdu word processor
Writing in In page in a particular format

Resources required:

Stationary
Computer
Printer
Photo copies
Multimedia projector
Refreshment baker items and tea

Classroom Strategy:

Presentation
Reproducing text from black and white to electronic sheet
Urdu key board practice by software

Day 5:

Procedural activity:

How to use the hardware resources such as printer, scanner, digital camera, and use of Multimedia
How to make effective video
Searching teacher resources on the internet
Post test
Awarding certificate

Resources Required: