..... HITEC (Heavy Industries Taxila Education City) From Pre School to HITEC University

Professional Development Center : Picture Gallery

HITEC institutions are run by professionally trained staff. This is taken care of by the Professional Development Center which is managed under Director Academics, Training and Evaluation.

A Faculty Development Programme was chalked out for Hitec Teachers for the session of June—July 2009.Including various workshops conducted by the Director Academics Mrs. Shaista Shahid.

The PDC was prepared with a layout for group work to have participants develop the idea of sharing their thoughts, display boards were made and displays related to session topics were made for the boards. Colorful displays of common courtesy words to be used during communication were also displayed on the walls.

The session included workshops on

~ Proficiency in English Language

A four day workshop was held during the summer breaks for the teachers of HITEC on Proficiency in English Language. It was a fun-filled workshop with lots of activities going on including songs sessions, Look & Say bag activity, making crafts activity, Circle time meetings and inspirational movies. As per the Teachers “It was Mega-hit workshop”!!

~Educational Leadership

The art of management has to do with the ability to get others to successfully act in the direction of achieving plans, objectives and goals. Whether this happens by direct instruction or otherwise, it will always amount to a guiding of the behavior of others in a given direction. Leadership is the influencing process of leaders and followers to achieve organizational objectives through changes. In this regard a highly motivated workshop was conducted at HITEC, which was attended by all the Heads of the institutes.

~ Teaching of History by Oxford University Press

A workshop by OUP was held for the senior classes on How to be an effective teacher while teaching subjects like History and Geography so that students get more motivated.

~Progressive English Series by Oxford University Press

Progressive English series workshop was conducted by OUP for senior as well junior level classes.

~Lesson Planning and Writing Objectives

A workshop for all the HITEC Institutes was held on Lesson Planning & Writing Objectives as much of the successful instruction observed in schools is the result of competent planning and preparation. Teachers are required to arrange instructional events for students in such a way that appropriate learning is facilitated.

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Global Partnership of Schools — A British Council Project:  

A presentation by British council representative was held at Hitec on Global Partnership of Schools. This project builds linkages of schools in Pakistan with schools in United Kingdom . Professional Development opportunities and exchanges of teaching faculty and students take place under this project. Hitec is in the processes of considering this opportunity for future session. Lets have a look

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Professional Development

HTEC institutions are run by professionally trained staff. This is taken care of by the Professional Development Center which is managed under Director Academics, Training and Evaluation.

Recently a program of workshops was conducted to develop leadership traits in the Principals of HITEC Schools.

Implementation of Standards Based Education in Pakistan

In order to achieve long term sustainable impact on the quality of education and improve student learning outcomes, the Curriculum Wing, Ministry of Education has developed standards and plans to institutionalize a standards-driven system involving content and performance standards, teacher training, learning support materials, and formative and summative assessments.

Through a strategy of direct alignment of national content standards with:

• the new national curriculum
• formative and summative testing
• content pacing guides for teachers
• educational materials design, including but not limited to textbooks
• pre-service and in-service teacher training
• monitoring, mentoring and supervision of teachers
• record-keeping resources (assessment portfolios etc.), and
• lesson planning

Standards will be at the forefront of the Ministry of Education's reform plans. Standards, simply put, enable us to understand what needs to be taught, what needs to be achieved, and provide us with a reference point for the design/development/implementation of many of the other components in the system.

“Educational Leadership” conducted by Shaista Shahid director Academics, Training and Evaluation

1. What is Professional Development? Standards for Leadership

2. Change

3. HITEC Education System

Heads of all institutions participated in this two day workshop

Nine Day Course conducted By ED Links in Collaboration with USAID, Ministry of Education and Agha Khan University in Islamabad.

Following four teachers from HITEC High Schools and colleges for Men and Women attended this course

 Mohammad Akram – physics

Waqar Hussain- English

Kamran Akhtar -computers

Naveed Imran – Mathematics  

English as a second Language

Teachers of HITEC Pre-school attended an interesting workshop conducted by Professor Awan on improving their classroom English expression. Activities were held on spoken English, questioning, vocabulary etc.