PAIE workshop on "Occupational Therapy with Reference to Cerebral Palsy (C.P)" on Saturday,October 26, 2013

Dear Member,

PAIE is organizing a general awareness raising workshop on Occupational Therapy. The aim of this workshop is to introduce concepts and importance of Occupational Therapy, specially for Cerebral Palsy, as to promote health by enabling people to perform meaningful and purposeful activities.

Who Should Attend?

Mainstream and special educators, parents, and people particularly those working with Special or C.P children can also gain good knowledge.

Details of the workshop are as follows:

Topic:                “Occupational Therapy with Reference to Cerebral Palsy (C.P)”

Time:                  9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Date:                  Saturday, October 26, 2013
Venue:                Aga Khan University, Institute for Educational Development
Facilitator:       Ms. Sadaf Waqar, Occupational Therapist
 

In view of limited seats available, prior registration for this workshop is mandatory. Kindly confirm your participation latest by Thursday, October 24, 2013 at registration@ptan.org or call 36826991-94/36347611-14, Ext. 8554 / 8556, as this will facilitate us in organising the workshop effectively.

  

We look forward to your participation!

 

ASSET workshop on "Becoming a Smarter Teacher" on Saturday, October 26, 2013

If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow
                                                                                                      (Chinese proverb)

Dear Member,
World Teachers' Day held annually on October 5 since 1994. It symbolizes the importance of a teacher in moulding the future of an individual as well as the lives of the nations. This year the slogan of World Teachers’ Day is “A Call for Teachers”

Site: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/world-teachers-day

 Keeping the similar theme in mind, ASSET has arranged an interactive workshop titled “Becoming a Smarter Teacher”

Objectives of the session:
Ø  Identify the challenges which 21^st century teachers are facing
Ø  Explore the ways of becoming a smarter teacher
Ø  Suggest the ways to bridge the gap between teacher and students in a digital age
 

The details are as follows:

Topic:                   Becoming a Smarter Teacher

Date:                     October 26, 2013
Time:                     9:00 a.m. – 01:00 p.m.
Facilitator:            Mr. Sadiq Merchant, Executive Committee Member, ASSET

 Kindly confirm your participation latest by Thursday, October 24, 2013 at 36347611-14 / 36826991-4 Ext. 8554-8556, (Tuesday-Saturday between 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.). Or register online at info@ptan.org or registration@ptan.org.

We look forward to your active participation in the workshop.

SHADE Workshop on "Understanding Cooperative Learning group activities for the development of Education Systems" on Saturday,October 26, 2013

Understanding Cooperative Learning group activities for the development of Education Systems

Cooperative learning is an approach to organize classroom activities into academic and social learning experiences. Although we have an understanding of the group work yet our educational institutions are unable to infuse Cooperative Learning Strategies into our classrooms. Therefore, SHADE is conducting a session on “Understanding Cooperative Learning Group Activities for the development of Education Systems”. This session will help participants to;

·         Explore the difference between traditional and cooperative learning groups

·         Understand the strategies to develop cooperative learning groups

·         Identify the basic elements of cooperative learning

Date:               Saturday, October 26, 2013

Timing:           From 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Venue:            Aga Khan University, Institute for Educational Development (AKU-IED)

 

Facilitator’s Profile:

Mr. Nadeem ur Rehman Khan is an emerging personality in education. His professional qualifications include an MBA (Educational Management) from the Institute of Business Education, Bachelors of Education from Notre Dame Institute of Education (NDIE) and Bachelors of Commerce from the Institute of Business Education. He has acquired professional teaching and training certifications from the Australian Catholic University, Australia and the Teachers Development Centre (TDC). Formerly, he taught Business Studies Curriculum at Beaconhouse School Systems and also conducted workshops on Multiple Intelligences, Usage of Multimedia in Education, Resume Writing and Interviews for Educators in collaboration with TDC and NDIE. He has also worked with the British Council to market launching of their Teaching English website campaign. He has written number of articles in the daily DAWN and Express Tribune. Currently, he is associated with Aga Khan Higher Secondary School (AKHSS) as their Academic Coordinator.

In view of limited seats available, prior registration for this workshop is mandatory. Kindly confirm your participation latest by Friday, October 25, 2013 at registration@ptan.org or (36347611-4/36826991-4 Ext. 8554/ 8556), as this will facilitate us in organizing the workshop effectively.

We look forward to your participation!

SAP workshop on "Designing, Writing, Reviewing Textbook and Teaching Learning Materials." on Saturday, October 12, 2013

Dear Member,

 

On behalf of SAP Executive Committee, we would like to invite you for the academic session to be held on Saturday, October 12, 2013. Details of the session are as follows:

 

Topic:             Designing, Writing, Reviewing Textbook and Teaching Learning Materials.

 

Objectives:        At the end of the workshop participants will be able to:

 

·         Design, write and review varied texts, activities and assessment tasks.

·         Develop, pilot and modify the texts, activities and assessments to make textbook and teaching learning materials more practical, updated and contextually relevant.

·         Critically review the alignment of the textbook with the curriculum document 2006 and textbook review criteria and suggest changes to improve the curriculum and textbooks of primary science classes.

·         Discuss and make suggestions to integrate scientific attitudes, values, issues and skills of relevance to context and levels.

Time:                 9:00 a.m. – 1:30p.m.

 

Date:                  Saturday, October 12, 2013

 

Venue:               AKU-IED

 

Facilitator:        Ms. Suraiya Yousufi Chairperson SAP and Ms. Unaeza Alvi, Faculty AKU-IED & Founding Chair and Executive Committee Member, SAP, Member Advisory Committee on Curriculum and Textbook Reforms.

 

Kindly confirm your participation latest by Friday, October 11, 2013 at registration@ptan.org or (36826991-4 / 36347611-4 Ext. 8554 / 8556), as this will facilitate us in organizing the workshop effectively.

 

We look forward to your participation!