School of Professional Advancement (SPA)

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    The current context teachers and teaching in Pakistan
    (Interdisciplinary Journal of Contemporary Research in Business, 2011) Farah Naz; Abida Khalid; Ijaz Ahmad Tatlah
    Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to throw light on the current context of teachers and teaching in Pakistan and to suggest further line of research on teaching and teachers in the country. Design: This paper is based on the review of different papers and articles available in different journals; and downloaded from internet and also on the daily experiences of mine which I face as a teacher and a teacher trainer. Findings: The review shows that teaching is a profession by default or an additional source of income. Male members only opt this profession because they could find any other job or adopt it for surplus income. Mostly the teachers are with low qualifications. Teaching is only the transmission of knowledge. Practical Implications: Future directions for the future exploration in this area of study are suggested. Originality: This paper is an attempt to know about the life of the teachers in developing countries, like Pakistan.
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    Effect of mentoring on the teaching skills of b.ed level students during teaching practice
    (Common Ground, 2010) Abida Khalid; Farah Naz; Ijaz Ahmad Tatlah; Farhat Munir
    Teachers development is considered very important for the teaching- learning process in education. To enhance the learning opportunities mentoring is considered an effective tool now days. It is one of the most important ways to improve the quality of teaching. This research was conducted to see the perspective of prospective teachers (mentees) and mentors about the effect of mentoring on classroom practices. The study was conducted in one of the campus of University of Education at Pakistan. An experimental study was designed, implemented and evaluated in a year. Fifty prospective teachers and 12 senior faculty mentors were involved in the program. Fifty prospective teachers were taken in the control group and 50 prospective teachers were taken in the experimental group. This study was basically conducted to determine the improvement in teaching skills of mentees after providing a complete session of training and the research supported that mentoring contributes a lot in enhancing the teaching skills of teachers and indicated clearly that mentoring has a positive effect on classroom practices.
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    Entrepreneurial skills enhance the achievement level of school leaders
    (Institute of Interdisciplinary Business Research, 2011) Farah Naz; Farhat Munir; Abida Khalid; Ijaz Ahmad Tatlah
    Educational systems of almost every country of the world are facing the challenges of new dimensions. To manage with such fast growing challenges it has to coordinate with the global demands. Education being an industry has to work under the same patterns as any business organizations do. It is widely agreed that the intention of Conservative education policies is that the schools are to become business with a primary focus on profit and loss account (Ball, 1990, p68). In business sector business entrepreneurs are going to be encouraged. So it is the high time to realize the worth of educational entrepreneurs to make it successful as business and strengthen the country s economy. The objective of this article is to analyze the results of a survey carried out among school leaders at different schools in Lahore. The aim of this study was to investigate entrepreneurial skills in school leaders.The research involves analysis of data gathered from school leaders serving in different schools at Lahore Pakistan.Education has become the back bone of every country s economy. So it has become very necessary to develop the educational on the same patterns as any business organizations do. For this the role of school leaders should become significant and functional. They should become forward to lead the educational systems as business. They should be more focused to quality and profit to up lift the country s economy. The research has the implications for the school leaders and policy makers in term of identifying the importance of entrepreneurial skills for school heads in order to refine and up lift the educational system to strengthen the country s economy. The research will be valuable in terms of training of school heads. It will also provide the policy makers an insight about its importance in global perspectives.
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    The implementation of curricula at secondary level: role of head teacher
    (Common Ground, 2011) Farah Naz; Ijaz Ahmad Tatlah; Abida Khalid
    A curriculum plan is as good as its implementation since it is the actual achievement and not merely the objectives set and organizational mechanism provided that determine the impact of a plan. Without effective implementation the decision of the curriculum planner are not to be carried out successfully. Since the people who plan the curriculum are not the same who carried out it, there is a considerable room of distortion of the curriculum planner’s intentions if the steps and actions appropriate to the plan are not taken. Construction and implementation of curriculum involves an intricate set of actions on the part of many people. The purpose of this study is to identify the factors which influence the implementation of curricula at secondary school stage as perceived by teachers, and principals. The study was based on the assumption that the curricula introduced were not fully implemented. Data was collected and tabulated for the purpose. Statistical techniques were applied to analyze the data. Analysis of major hypotheses and items shows that supervisory function had not performed in a manner that could ensure the effective implementation of curricula at school level. There are many factors that impede or facilitate the process of implementation of the curriculum as perceived.