Life Skills to teaching

An energizer to your teaching life

By: Mehar Khan

Smile because it is charity (Ref:Hadith)

Some cherishing advices when you learn in groups

Bring yourself to lightEnlighten your ideas candidly

Healthy conflicts with good behaviourSpeak with evidencesAnd most importantly

Keep Smiling

It is an interactive workshop where you will learn by your own performances. Feel yourself into the characters assigned. Your gestures during performance is equally important.

Introduction

AIM: TO MAKE US REALISE OUR HIDDEN SKILLS AND COPING UP CHALLENGES THROUGH UTILISING LIFE SKILLS

OBJECTIVE: BY THE END OF THE SESSION PARTICIPANTS WILL BE ABLE TO COPE UP WITH LIFE SKILLS TO TEACHING.

What is LIFE to you?

What are your SKILLS?

Time ManagementPublic SpeakingRecord KeepingDecision MakingAdapting ChangesWriting

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Life SkillsF = FlexibilityI = IndependenceT= Decision MakingG= Goal SettingA= AdaptationL = Leadership

FISH

Let’s analyze ourselves!

Do you feel like being a fish? Or Do you fish in some situations of life?

Aim: To make the audience more flexible at their workplace so that they will develop life skills

effectively.

Role Play: A group of people have had the problem that their heads i.e. Principal/coordinator does not listen to their demands and consequently it creates a conflict. You have to make things possible in your favour but you must avoid confrontations.

Remember! Your effort should be worthwhile for students of your school.

Preparation time: 5-min Presentation time: 5-min

Activity 1: Resolving Conflicts

Role Play: In your free period you want to stay free and

usually like to talk and make gossips. However, you are bound to go to library and have to do something related to your job.

Eventually you start to find some annoyance in your personality as you do not get

freedom. Now, your task is to figure out a way that could possibly make you feel free

and interesting at your workplace. Preparation time: 5-min

Presentation time: 5-min

Activity : 2 Independence

Aim: To develop the ability of being independent that leads you to be a successful teacher.

Role Play Suppose, you are offered a lucrative job, which you have

always dreamt about, but you came across with a fact that the place is extra-ordinarily professional where

administration does not follow humanistic attitude. They rather have rough behaviors towards their employees however they pay the teachers more than 50,000 per

month and currently your salary is too meager. You are not the earning member but supporting. What would you do?

Who would you take suggestions? Divide your group members into different characters/roles.

Activity 3: Decision MakingAim: To enable you to make the decision,

which is essentially required in every field of life.

ROLE PLAYSuppose, you all are a group of people who work

for establishing education in an area that is under-privileged. People are uneducated therefore their children get indulged in bad activities very often.

You believe education can only save these children. You have to set “S.M.A.R.T. GOAL” for motivating them to send their children to the

school (which is already there).

Activity 4: Goal SettingAim: To make you establish goals for divergent reasons and how smart goals could be

worthwhile for spreading education.

S.M.A.R.T. Goal

Defining SMART Goal…

Role PlayTwo students who have come from a very different background become the part of your class. It is hard to make them understand. One is very

careless listener and the one does not follow the rule of your school. They are not ready to accept changes. What would you do in this situation?

Preparation time: 5-min Presentation time: 5-min

Activity no. 5: AdaptationAim: To make you learn adaptation with others in

difficult situation using tact.

  THE SOURCES OF ISLAMIC LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES:

Islamic Leadership Principles are primarily derived from the following key sources:

· The Holy Quran.· The Holy Prophet.· The Wise Caliphs.· Pious Followers

It is He Who hath made you in (His) agent inheritors of the earth: He has raised you in ranks, some above others: that he may try you in the gifts He hath given

you: for thy Lord is quick in punishment: yet He is indeed oft-giving, Most Merciful

Al-Quran 6.165 (Al-Anaam)

Leadership

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” (Martin Luther)

Role Play  You are a principal/coordinator at a school which is under-

developed. You have the first meeting with the staff. Perform while keeping the following leadership qualities;

 a. Proactive b. Self-motivated c. Humble but

Assertive*Don’t forget to be true to your faith (Emaan)

Activity no: 6 LeadershipAim: To foster leadership to achieve an objective and

compete to be ahead of other to seek pleasure of Allah and success hereafter

FeedbackWhat did you explore about yourself?

Elucidate it up !

Review your strategies

Strategies Almost always

Sometimes

Rarely

I know what my plans are.

I am flexible enough to adept changes

My behaviour with peers is postive and humble.

I have had specific goal for my teaching life.

I have had good rapport with my coordinator/s and principal.

I am ready to have innovation in my teaching.

I read every day for sharing knowledge.

I have had plans for ext.Ss.

What innovations are you going to implement to your teaching life?

Feedback

Jazak’Allah

Feel free to write to me: mehrr@live.com/mehark111@gmail.comMehar Khan ELT Coordinator @ Usman Public School System Campus-IIIKarachi, Pakistan