Teachers Training in Progress
Workshop ParticipantsTHREE DAYS TEACHERS TRAINING WORKHSOP HELD ON 17TH,18TH & 19TH AUGUST 09.
REGISTRATION.
On 17th registration for workshop was started at 8:30 a.m. and within half an hour all participants pre-scheduled for the workshop reported at the registration counter where they all were given, ID Tags, Blue files to keep workshop material and other necessary written material for the three days workshop. According to the registration record 120 teachers were registered for the workshop coming from different schools and projects of Starfish Asia Fund.
WORSHIP AND DEVOTION.
Right after the registration time, Rev.Afzal Masih started workshop. Devition was lead by Rev.Arshad Ashknaz, The Vicar and District Superintendent of Christ Church Youhannabad.He took the passage from the Proverbs Chapter 3 verses 1-4.In his talks he stressed the importance of teaching and learning and encouraged the participants to use this opportunity positively.
KEY NOTE ADDRESS.
Being host of the teachers workshop, Prof.Kaleem Dean, Director, CAP Ministries, presented the keynote address where he stressed the need to help poor Christian community living in villages and slums. He divided his paper under the following titles;
1.Education-Definition and Scope.
2.Education in Pakistan.
3.Role of Christian Institutions and present scenario.
4.Role of Indigenous Organizations.
5.The Way forward.
SHARING, COMMENTS AND REMARKS.
After the speech of Kaleem Dean, Shahid Ambrose Mughal, Director, Dar-ul-Hikmat and Mr. George Paul, Chairman, Christian Human Rights Group shared their view about the importance of the workshop and lauded the efforts of Prof.Kaleem Dean and his team for taking the challenge to empower teachers of Christian schools. Tea was served after this opening session.
SESSION 1.
In the session 1, Resource person was Rev.Afzal Masih, the Assistant Director, Lahore Evangelical Ministries, Lahore and delivered his lecture on the topic: Duties of Christian Teachers in Biblical Perspective.
In his session, he shared the three fold ministry of Jesus Christ; Preaching, Healing and Teaching. He quoted from the Holy Bible that how Jesus was a role model as teacher and how he deputed his disciples to be teachers. John 13-13,Luke 2:46,Glation 3:24-25, Corinthian 4:15,Joshua 1:8.He explained beautifully the role of a teacher from the Bible and stressed that Jesus appointed Apostels, Prophets, Evangelists, Shepherds and Teachers. His lesson was very useful for the participants. After this session lunch was served.
SESSION 2.
In this session, resource person was Rev.John Mall who shared his teachings on the subject Teaching of Bible, Methodologies and Strategy (age group 4-9)He stressed on the teachers to work for the character building of Christian students. Also, he stressed that basic fundamental of Christianity should be the part of the teaching content and by using story telling method, extraction method, question answer method and demonstration method basic concepts of Christianity should be made learnt to students. He shared so many stories from the Holy Bible as sample teaching using different methods and helping aids like flow charts. He narrated the story of good Samaritan in impressive way using flow chart. Lecture and presentation was very good and impressive. Tea was served at the end of this session.
SESSION 3.
The session resource person was Mrs.Nagina Kaleem who shared her teaching experiences on the topic, Use of Audio Visual Aids in teaching. Her lesson was very interesting as she shows lots of A.V.Aids and taught how to prepare A.V.Aids from small things of common use, like packing sheets, card boxes, extra and useless papers, newspapers and other materials like, colours, geometary things so on and so forth. Everyone appreciated her way of expressing. At 5:10 she completed her lesson and with the closing prayer of Mr.Salamat Ghouri, the first day sessions were closed. And all departed at 5:30 p.m. to their homes.
18 AUGUST 2009.
Worship was started at 8:40 where Rev.Afzal and Pastor Patras Feroze were leading in this session. Pastor Patras Feroze shared the word of the Lord with participants and stressed on the responsibilities of Christian teachers. He selected a passage from the Gospel of Mathew Chapter 11:5-25.
SESSION 1.
Ms.Corien de Velde was the resource person and Professor Victoria Patrick was the president of the session. She started her lesson with some questions like what is meant by teachers respect. And what is meant by children respect? She said that children are precious pearls in the hands of teachers who should be dealt with care and love. She further stressed that children come to schools as readers but should leave schools as leaders. She held discussion among different groups of participants. In this session, teachers from CAP Schools presented a meaningful skit about the personality of the teacher, which was appreciated much. In her talks Professor Victoria Patrick, she expressed her view that teacher is like a mason and children are like bricks and it depends upon the skill of teacher how he adjust the personality of children in the teaching learning process. Like a good mason who builds a beautiful building, teachers should work accurately making all decision correct. Teachers should be skilful and goal oriented. This session was terminated with the ministry sharing of different SF-Partners. In between activity and presentation tea was served and after ministry sharing, it was time to have lunch so all moved to the ground where food arrangements were made.
SESSION-2.
In this session, Professor Vincent Pace was a resource person to share about The teaching of Languages, Techniques and Tips. He started with his specific style of university teachers and got appreciation. He used poetic diction and quoted many verses from Urdu poetry. He focused on the skills of listening, skill of reading, skill of learning and skill of speaking. He taught these four folds methods of language acquisition. He presented so many samples and examples of language teaching. He had group discussion to enhance the language teaching skill. This was long session but appreciated by every one. The session president Mr.Tariq Javed Tariq appreciated the efforts of Prof.Kaleem Dean for organizing this unique kind of workshop in this area. He encouraged Christian teachers to play their role in the leadership. They are to prepare the future nation so they should work hard with great responsibility to bring changes in the lives of children. The session ended at 5:00 p.m.Different ministries representatives shared their ministries. With the closing prayer of Rev.Earnest from Kingdom of Heaven Ministries, this day was closed. During this session tea was served.
19th August 2009.
The day was started with the worship and devotion. Worship was lead by Rev.Afzal and Rev.Patras Feroze while Rev.Sajid Masih; Chairman of Talent Ministries shared the word of God.
Session-1.,Professor Kaleem Dean, The Director of CAP Ministries was the resource person who delivered his lecture on The Teaching Methodologies and our local context. He started his lesson at 9:45 a.m.He defined TEACHING, EXPRESSION and COMMUNICATION and then the clarity of perception. After that he defined and explained the traditional and non-traditional methods of teaching. He presented his lecture skillfully that by the end of the lecture he asked the audience about the fulfillment of his objectives which he set in the beginning of the lecture. Everyone appreciated his lesson very much. In the end of his lecture, he organized group activities about the teaching methodology and goal setting also, he held a very good activity to know the personal potential of teachers which was bit complicated for teachers and participants but they took great interest in that activity. Tea and lunch were served according to the schedule. The session president, Mr.Shahid Ambrose Mughal appreciated the work of Prof.Kaleem and CAP for organizing such a wonderful workshop and highlighted the importance of EDUCATION.
SESSION-2.
Dr.Christy Munir was the resource person to deliver a lecture on the topic The Role of Christian Teachers in Community Development. Mr.Akmal Arastus was the president of the session. Dr.Christy started in his particular style asking question whether Christian Community is a developed community or not? Some responded yes but mostly said no, the community is not developed. After this he took some view of participants about this issues. In his lecture, he presented number of evidences that Christian community was not developed community. Then he stressed on the role of a Christian teacher. He encouraged all teachers to do their work with Christian commitment and responsibilities. His lecture was full of examples and surveys. In the lecture, he appreciated the work of CAP and efforts of Kaleem Dean for organizing such a workshop for Christian teachers. In his presidential address, Akmal Arastus stressed on working hard for the community development. We should work hard to face the present day challenges and should think and to plan to meet the challenges.
CERTIFICATES DISTRIBUTION CEREMONY.
To 120 participants, certificates of participation were given and this ceremony continued for almost one and half hour.Mr.Akmal Arastus and Dr.Christy Munir gave away the certificates to participants. After the ceremony was over, Prof.Kaleem Dean, CAP Ministries thanked all principals of different schools, participants, all resource persons, all presidents of session and CAP team for making this workshop a success. Also, he thanked Dr.Christy Munir and Akmal Arasuts for attending the closing ceremony of Teachers Training Workshop 2009.This way, this three days workshop came to an end. After 6:00 p.m. all participants had a time to sit together to share their views and to chit chat. At 6:30 p.m. a social programme was arranged by the CAP team where all projects were invited to present their talent, this was healthy activity and in the end Prof.Kaleem Dean invited a renowned singer Ustad Hamid Ali Khan to come to this programme for ghazal singing. He performed for one and half hour and sang beautiful ghazals. This programme ended at 9:00 p.m followed by dinner and finally every one was back at home by 10:00 p.m.
CAP Conclusion.
It was a big challenge to hold such a big workshop while we had no experience of practically holding these kinds of programmes. However, Prof.Kaleem had attended number of national and international workshop. We tried our level best to serve our brothers and sisters in the workshop. At our level, we tried to invite practical, goal oriented and easy going resource persons. We tried our best to provide with the best arrangements like air-conditioning and food. We tried our best to follow the schedule strictly. Our team worked day and night to materialize the event successfully. We have collected evaluation form in which all participants appreciated CAP effort and suggested to continue this in future. We as CAP Team conclude this workshop as a successful event and are ready to serve SF-Partners but we have so many ideas and reservations for future trainings, workshops and refresher courses, which we need to discuss with Starfish Management.
WORD OF THANKS.
We as CAP Team are grateful to Mike and Kerstin for their help and support without which we were not able to organize this event. And hope they will continue their support in the future teachers development programmes
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