Action Plan

Mrs. Huma Abbas

Science Teacher

The City School

Prep IIIs

LONG-TERM GOALS

To incorporate 21st century approaches to enhance and to inculcate thinking skills.

To excites the students curiosity about phenomena and events in the world around them.

SHORT-TERM GOALS

Promote critical thinking.

Support interpersonal and collaborative skills.

Encourage use of different pool of resources.

Promote communication skills by effective oral, written and multimedia communications in a variety of forms and contents.

Develop creativity and intellectual curiosity.

Provide opportunities to promote higher order thinking.

Engage students in ALTs and ABL strategies.

Through group work open house discussion will be promoted.

Instructional Strategies and tasks

CHALLENGES SOLUTIONS

Shortage of time and resources.

Lack of support from parents.

Grouping may not be liked by students

School administration shall be requested for resources and

effective use of free time shall be made.

The importance of research and exploration shall be explained to

the parents.

Effective student counselling.

The BLOOM’S TAXONOMY

There is more than one type of learning. A committee of colleges, led by Benjamin Bloom (1956), identified three domains of educational activities:

Cognitive: mental skills (Knowledge)

Affective: growth in feelings or emotional areas (Attitude)

Psychomotor: manual or physical skills (Skills)

Implementation of Bloom’s Taxonomy

TIME LINE

PHYSICS

BIOLOGY

CHEMISTRY

• Plants and Photosynthesis

• Plants for food

• Reactions of metals and metals compound

• Reactivity series

• Gravity and space

• Energy and Electricity

August

September/October

November/December

RESOURCES

Human resource.

My computer.

Internet.

Reference books.

Intel course manual.

CONCLUSION

Science is built of facts as a house is built of stones.

But is no more a collection of facts than a house is a pile of stones.

The bricks stick with the material called skills.

CHEMISTRY• Reactions of metals and metal compounds

• Reactivity series

APPROACHES

Research

To explore

Observation

Monitoring

Questioning

Encouraging

SKILLS

Problem solving

Critical thinking

Identification

Computational skills

TECHNIQUES

Activity based

Relating with practical life

Putting theory into practical

PHYSICS• Space and Gravity

• Energy and Electricity

APPROACHES

Research

To explore

To promote high order thinking

Questioning

Encouraging

Intervening

SKILLS

Computational skills

Critical thinking

Problem identification

Collaborative skills

Creativity and intellectual curiosity

TECHNIQUES

Activity based learning

ALTS

Putting theory into practical

Relating with daily life

BIOLOGY Plants and Photosynthesis

Plants for food

APPROACHES

Research

Explore

Questioning

Observing

Putting theory into practical

SKILLS

Collaborative skills

Creativity

Intellectual curiosity

Critical thinking

TECHNIQUES

Activity based learning

ALT

Experiments

Group activity

Relating it with daily life