Sarosh Idrees Khan

19/12/2015

English Language Teaching and Christianity
Ahmar Mahboob

English (and teaching of English) was not simply a language (or teaching of a language), but it was a language that best carried the word of God; and teaching English was a way of spreading this message.

English Language Teaching and Christianity: Additive Perspective on Religion or Growing Hearts with Wisdom

02/04/2014

ERDC invites you all to attend a seminar PROMOTING RESEARCH CULTURE IN SCHOOLS on Saturday, April 26, 2:00pm to 6:00pm at Homeopathic College Auditorium Nazimabad, Karachi.

11/03/2014

Can University Professors Benefit from K-12 Progressive Teaching Tactics? http://ow.ly/ur1Dg

10/12/2013

Life in the 21st Century has become international, multicultural and inter-connected, new skills are needed to succeed in education and in the workplace.

21st Century skills:
Ancient, ubiquitous, enigmatic?

Irenka Suto
Research Division
Cambridge Assessment

Paper published in January 2013 in
Research Matters: A Cambridge Assessment Publication

“Today, because of rapid economic and social change, schools have to prepare students for jobs that have not yet been created, technologies that have not yet been invented and problems that we don't yet know will arise.”
Andreas Schleicher, OECD Education Directorate, 2010.

09/12/2013

Struggle is a predictable part of the learning process.

Everyone is expected to struggle in the process of learning, and so struggling becomes a chance to show that you, the student, have what it takes emotionally to resolve the problem by persisting through that struggle.

Jim Stigler-Professor of psychology at UCLA

In Japanese classrooms, teachers consciously design tasks that are slightly beyond the capabilities of the students they teach, so the students can actually experience struggling with something just outside their reach.

06/12/2013

Fixed mindset vs Growth mindset

Started by Dr Joanna Goodman, EdD, FCIEA

Developing a learning capacity for life

Date: 28th November 2013
Author: Dr Joanna Goodman
Theme: Curriculum, Education Policy, Exams and Assessment
Tags: Assessment, Curriculum Reform, National Curriculum

We too often focus on ability at the expense of effort, says Dr Joanna Goodman. As the new curriculum nears, she warns that assessment must focus on progress and developing students’ ‘growth mindsets’.

- See more at: http://www.sec-ed.co.uk/blog/developing-a-learning-capacity-for-life?goback=%2Egde_1873115_member_5811863701958987776 #%21

We too often focus on ability at the expense of effort, says Dr Joanna Goodman. As the new curriculum nears, she warns that assessment must focus on progress and developing students’ ‘growth mindsets’.

05/12/2013

05/12/2013

12th International Asia TEFL Conference

and

23rd MELTA International Conference

AsiaTEFL 2014 - MELTA

05/12/2013

Identity management, language variation and English language textbooks: focus on Pakistan

02/12/2013

The Role of Culture in ELT: Learners’ Attitude towards the Teaching of Target Language Culture

25/11/2013

Journal of Linguistics (JL) has as its goal to publish articles that make a clear contribution to current debate in all branches of theoretical linguistics. The journal also provides an excellent survey of recent linguistics publications, with around thirty book reviews in each volume and regula...

08/10/2013