Special Picture in my life...

Great Honour to be Part of the Team

سب سے بڑی قوت۔۔۔قوتِ برداشت ہے

بند دکان میں کہیں سے گهومتا پهرتا ایک سانپ گهس آیا
یہاں سانپ کی دلچسپی کی کوئی چیز نہیں تهی۔اس کا جسم وہاں پڑی ایک آری سے ٹکرا کر بہت معمولی سا زخمی ہو گیا. گهبراہٹ میں سانپ نے پلٹ کر آری پر پوری قوت سے ڈنگ مارا. سانپ کے منہ سے خون بہنا شروع ہو گیا. اگلی بار سانپ نے اپنی سوچ کے مطابق آری کے گرد لپٹ کر، اسے جکڑ کر اور دم گهونٹ کر مارنے کی پوری کوشش کر ڈالی. دوسرے دن جب دکاندار نے ورکشاپ کهولی تو ایک سانپ کو آری کے گرد لپٹے مردہ پایا جو کسی اور وجہ سے نہیں محض اپنی طیش اور غصے کی بهینٹ چڑھ گیا تها.
بعض اوقات غصے میں ہم دوسروں کو نقصان پہنچانے کی کوشش کرتے ہیں، مگر وقت گزرنے کے بعد ہمیں پتہ چلتا ہے کہ ہم نے اپنے آپ کا زیادہ نقصان کیا ہے.
اچهی زندگی کیلئے بعض اوقات ہمیں

کچھ چیزوں کو
کچھ لوگوں کو
کچھ حوادث کو
کچھ کاموں کو
کچھ باتوں کو
نظر انداز کرنا چاہیئے.

اپنے آپ کو ذہانت کے ساتھ نظر انداز کرنے کا عادی بنائیے، ضروری نہیں کہ ہم ہر عمل کا ایک رد عمل دکهائیں. ہمارے کچھ رد عمل ہمیں محض نقصان ہی نہیں دیں گے بلکہ ہو سکتا ہے کہ ہماری جان بهی لے لیں.

سب سے بڑی قوت۔۔۔قوتِ برداشت ہے

صبر ایسی سواری ہے جو اپنے سوار کو گرنے نہیں دیتی
نہ کسی کے قدموں میں۔۔۔ نہ کسی کی نظروں میں.

With highly motivated, committed, dedicated and passionate teachers..

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

A Teacher Without Observation is a Bird WITHOUT WINGS.

Every Great Achievement is the Victory of a Flaming Heart.

Positive Parenting

• Engage Children in Healthy Exercise 
• Spend Time with Family (e.g meal time)
• Meet and get to Know your Child's Friends 
• Show interest in your Child's School Life
• Help Child Make his or her own Decision 
• Respect your Child's Opinion and Feelings 
• Inculcate Moral and Ethical Values 
• Respect them and don't Scold in Presence of others

How to Improve a Child's Self-Esteem

• Show Love and Affection 
• Give your Child Responsibilities 
• Criticize the Action not the Person 
• Never Compare your Child with Others 
• Listen to your Child and Share Things with them 
• Help your Child Develop Talents
• Allow independent and Avoid Ridicules 
• Complement your Child 

Role of Parents in Education

• Discuss day-to-day class activities; 
• Talk about school/study related issues;
• Talk with school teacher;
• Provide conducive learning environment at home; 
• Encourage reading and writing habits; 
• Do not create unnecessary expectation;
• Help child in assessing interest and aptitude, and making them an informed career decision; 
• Help your child selecting good academic institution and funding sources; 
• Encourage a continuous learning process in your child. 

Parents Awareness Session

These days I am conducting sessions for parents on the training of Early Childhood. I share guidelines that as parents what should we do and what should we care about during early childhood. I share our habits that we do formally or informally for the training of our children. I also share some practical examples from our society and daily routine. These examples are very realistic and important for parents particularly new parents and expected parents. Parents also enjoy my session and give me their feedback on the session.

I myself not satisfy with these sessions. It is because I do not follow the tips that I give to the parents in my daily life. It is very difficult to change our habits that have been developed. I train my children consciously and unconsciously that are different from what I say and share during my sessions. This makes me very guilty. 

A teacher's life ....

I found this picture from my collection. This picture reminds me about my life at Notre Dame Institute of Education. I was enrolled here for my Bachelor of Education in 2005. I think this was turning point in my professional life.
Before this course, I was unwilling teaching in a middle school. I was thinking that I will leave the field of teaching very soon. But when I got an opportunity to do my BEd, my intention towards career completely changed. I chosed teacher as my career and I am so happy to serve in the field of education.
I will share with you next time what were the factors that motivated me to chose teachers as my career.

Educational Leadership

The concept of educational leadership varies across societies and cultures. Different interpretations of leadership reflect the ways of looking at it and the philosophical and theoretical assumption behind them. Educational leadership is not a position but a capacity to conduct critical analysis of the schools and respond to their needs individually as each school has its own contextual challenges. Educational leadership takes schools out form units of mass production and transforms them into schools as living being; where each individual is given attention to accomplish their educational goals. Such goals are related to touching human minds and hearts with feelings and emotions. Similarly, educational leadership explores possibilities and takes calculated risks for captivating initiatives which help schools to move away from the current scenarios of dullness, stillness, deprivation and impaired teaching and learning process (Bana, 2010).

Likewise, the role of educational leader is not only to provide a shared vision but also to facilitate and contribute in institutionalizing the vision through harmonizing professional learning teams in schools. Such teams would respond to the changing realities wih their professional insights and skills. Educational leadership is all about influencing relationship amongst leaders and followers who intend real changes and outcomes that reflect their shared purpose. An effective educational leader is one that indentifies individual’s potentials and nurtures them to particular situation. Thus, the nature of the role of educational leadership demands us to sharpen our competencies, our communication, our creativity, our inspiration and our credibility by continuous learning from the context where we work.

Leadership Versus Management

There are dearth of materials on leadership and management. You are also list the role of managers and leaders on daily basis. But it is very difficult to distinguish between two terms. Although many experts and educationists have given some characteristics to differentiate between leadership and management.
In my opinion it is very difficult to distinguish between two terms. You cannot say that it is the role leadership and it is not role  of leadership. Similarly, you cannot say that it is the role of management and it is not role of management.
In my opinion and experiences, in same time you perform both roles and in same time you perform different roles. It is very difficult to differentiate both roles. Both are interchangeable. However, we need to specify some roles and characteristics one for another. Some of the difference are as under:

The leaders have active attitude towards goals while manger have passive attitude towards goals.
The leaders do right things while manager do things right.

Challenges of Life

It is considered that life is full of challenges. These challenges might be social, economical, physical and psychological.
The question is that how we perceive these challenges and how we convert these challenges into opportunities. There is not any rocket formula to convert the challenges into opportunities but skills and attitude help us to overcome some of these challenges.
In my opinion, there are two ways to respond these challenges. One way is that you just accept it and start blaming others and curse Allah for these challenges. Other way is that you prepare yourself and fight these challenges with your skills and expertise.
Another option is that Critical Thinking and Problem Solving is the effective ways to overcome these challenges. According to my own experiences and knowledge, majority of Government and private schools do not develop critical thinking and problem solving skills in their daily practices. There is a specific module to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills. The British Council has nicely developed some training modules to orient these skills for teachers. When teachers are well versed with these skills they can help students to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills. In this regards, British Council continuously negotiating with government departments and high official to implement core skills in their schools and schools systems.
Unfortunately, so far we do not see great impact of these negotiations and meeting. But hopefully we will see a regular feature of teaching and learning in school system.  

New Year Resolution

I had never developed a new year resolution before year 2018. This year I though I should developed and focus on my targets for the year 2018. I developed a list of 15 targets after a formal exercise of different topics/themes. My new year resolution is infront of me. This list always remind me that I have developed some targets for myself whether I am working on that targets or not.

I think it is a wonderful exercise, I also work consciously about my targets. I hope I will achieve some of  my targets at the end year.

I suggest my friends and colleagues to develop your new year resolution it helps us to focus on some of our targets to fulfill. 

BE SO GOOD THEY CANNOT IGNORE YOU.

Quality of an Islamic Vision by Mohtsham

• Clarity of Direction 
• Ambitiousness, Motivation and Excitement 
• Memorability 
• Relevance to Customers 
• Truthfulness
• Convertibility into Actions 
• Needs of the Society

During a meeting with community members in Basingo Skardu.

An army of sheep led by a loin is better than an army of loins led by a sheep.

If you do RIGHT no one remembers, if you do WRONG no one forgets.

Coming together is beginning, keeping together is progress and working together is success..

Champions' of Change in Educating Young Children through Technology

When there is NETWORKS and COLLABORATION wonderful things can be achieved.

Best Thing I ever did WAS BELIEVE IN ME.