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1. GOALS FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2014-2015 AND 2015-2016 English Language

2. English Language Long and Short term Goals Long-term goals : (2-3 years) To help learners acquire English language skills in listening, reading, speaking and writing. To develop proper study skills that will help students become independent learners. To highlight the importance of cooperative learning   Short-term goals : (By the end of this year) To develop fluency in spoken language To enable students to communicate effectively To promote the development of thinking skills To emphasize on the creation of an interactive classroom

3. English Language Objectives for the Current Year To provide activities aimed at increasing students fluency in speaking, reading and writing To incorporate the use of multi-media in teaching English To encourage the use of English language outside classroom settings To enable students to communicate effectively in all general subjects To develop students critical thinking skills Demonstrate verbal skills in oral discussions To enable students to participate in guided and free writing

4. Learner’s Development Program What is Learner’s Development Program? Learner’s Development Program is designed to develop fluency in spoken language. Its purpose is to develop and provide appropriate programs and learning experiences that will improve the oral language skills of children.

5. Learner’s Development Program Two Main Objectives The first and foremost objective is to help student gain fluency in speaking English and communicating effectively. The aim of the program is to equip the students with study skills to promote independent learning keeping in mind cooperative learning system.

6. Learner’s Development Program Steps for achieving the objectives

7. Learner’s Development Program Junior Section Grades 1, 2 and 3 have been divided into 10 small groups, according to their learning levels, comprising of no more than 6 students.

8. Learner’s Development Program Junior section

9. Learner’s Development Program Senior section Grades 4-5 and Grades 6-8 have been grouped according to their learning levels determined by their results. Intermingling of different grade students has been encouraged to promote cooperative learning skills Each group is being facilitated by a teacher whose main aim is to create a student-centered classroom where each student actively participates in all games and activities.

10. Learner’s Development Program Senior Section To encourage student’s oral language skills, different games are being played each day The objective of these games is to provide the students a chance to come up with creative ideas through which they can hone their communicative and inter-personal skills

11. Learner’s Development Program Bringing Innovation A program will be created in which once every week, volunteers from different walks of life will be encouraged to mentor the students. These volunteers could be anyone from a teenage student to a housewife or elderly grandparents who have experiences to relate and stories to share Professionals from different fields will be brought in to demonstrate their proficiency in their respective fields by conducting a practical or theory class.

12. Learner’s Development Program Bringing Innovation Creating literacy Development Clubs Students will create clubs related to different skills. For example: reading club, conversation club, drama club etc. The charge of these clubs will be completely in the hands of students. They will be managing members, selecting authors, books, topics for discussion and dramas to act and perform. The teacher will work as a facilitator in these clubs.

13. Learner’s Development Program Bringing Innovation Throughout the year on a small scale, different competitions will be held. These competitions will be a way to build student’s confidence and to give them a chance to perform in front of small or large groups. The competitions will be Elocution Debates KBC style quiz Conducting interviews Doing an auction for skills

14. Learner’s Development Program Different Games and Activities Barrier Games: Barrier Games are a great language tool as they provide opportunity to develop skills for both speaking and listening .Barrier Games require pairs of players to give and receive directions while being separated by some kind of obstruction (such as an open, upright book, piece of cardboard, or box lid). Students can draw a picture with geometric shapes (square, rectangle, circle, star, or triangle) and have the receiver reproduce it from spoken directions (ex, put the star on top of the left end of the rectangle); Board Games Word games can be used for the listening-speaking activities.Dictionary “races” (who can find a word and give its meaning first) are also good activities. The goal is to expose students to lots of words, and to make vocabulary acquisition a focus of interest.

15. Learner’s Development Program Different Games and Activities Picture games Picture games might also be used as guessing games when the child is fairly comfortable with the language. One student selects a card/chit with a word or picture drawn and describes it. Tongue Twisters These tongue twisters are great, and fun, too. Students may write their own tongue twisters, but here are a few to get you started: Mixed biscuits. For sheep soup, shoot sheep. Miss Smith dismissed us. She sells seashells by the sea shore.

16. Teacher training (6-8 months) The initial teachers training sessions currently include points on How do students learn Encouraging teachers to conduct the classroom in English. Emphasis on creating student friendly classroom Planning games and activities keeping in mind the skill being addressed.

17. Teacher training (Next Year) Further training will include Writing individualized reports on student’s progress Maintaining feedback and success records Integration of technology in teaching Analyzing effect of teacher’s activities on learning and performance of students