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Least Common Multiple Of Teacher Leadership Styles: Implication For Classroom, Khalid Mahmood Feb 2007

Least Common Multiple Of Teacher Leadership Styles: Implication For Classroom, Khalid Mahmood

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In a school, a teacher, as a leader, interacts directly with the students to develop their cognition for a desired outcome. At the same time s/he also forms a caring relationship with them not only to guide them academically but also socially and spiritually. Students also have certain capacity for their own learning. This capacity to large extent influences by teacher’s role in the classroom. Hence three factors have major influence to shape effectiveness of a classroom. In the study reported in this paper, combinations of these factors were sought and presented in three dimensional models. Eight different combinations (models) …


Initiating Change In Classrooms: Pathways And Challenges For East African Schools, Anjum Halai, Ruth Otienoh, Zeenat Shariff, Naomi Swat Feb 2006

Initiating Change In Classrooms: Pathways And Challenges For East African Schools, Anjum Halai, Ruth Otienoh, Zeenat Shariff, Naomi Swat

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This paper draws upon classroom-related findings from a set of impact case studies of whole school improvement in six primary schools that have been involved as “cooperating schools” in long-term school-university partnerships with the Aga Khan University Institute for Educational Development (IED), and it’s Professional Development Centre in East Africa (PDC-EA). The IED approach for school improvement involves participating schools in multiple strands of professional development, including: a two-year masters degree programme that provides selected teachers with the pedagogical and leadership knowledge and skills to serve as Professional Development Teachers in their schools; Certificate in Education programmes (CEP) for teachers …


School Improvement: A Case From The Northern Areas In Pakistan, Gulzar Kanji, Takbir Ali Jan 2006

School Improvement: A Case From The Northern Areas In Pakistan, Gulzar Kanji, Takbir Ali

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Glimpses Of The Impact Of Pdts In The Osh Region, Kyrgyzstan, Sadyk Ysmaiylov, Rahat Joldoshalieva, Gulnara Abdieva Aug 2003

Glimpses Of The Impact Of Pdts In The Osh Region, Kyrgyzstan, Sadyk Ysmaiylov, Rahat Joldoshalieva, Gulnara Abdieva

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This an interactive poster that presents findings of the Professional Development Teachers (PDTs) from Osh, Kyrgyzstan, in the field of teaching and learning English, as well as professional development of teachers that was carried out by them since they graduated from Aga Khan University Institute for Educational Development (AKU-IED). This presentation will consist of three parts. The first part will describe findings from the professional development programme, which has been carried out by the English Language Programme (ELP) at the faculty of World Languages at Osh State University. The second part will reveal changes that have been made in the …