Name of school Youssef El Sebai Language school
Name of school: Youssef El Sebai Language school Affiliated to: the administration of El Nozha School vision: providing quality education for all students in different stages by using advanced technological methods in order to support active learning under globalization
Educational stages in school : primary stage , preparatory stage and secondary stage • No of class in each stage No of class in primary stage 21 class No of class in preparatory stage 9 class No of class in secondary stage 9 class • No of students in each stage No of students in primary stage No of students in preparatory stage 1081 students 436 students No of students in secondary stage 407 students
No of our target group Our target groups Quality unit officer Training unit officer Social specialist Psychological specialist Teachers in all stages No of target groups 1 teachers 5 teachers 3 teachers 116 teachers
Strength points in this school got on an accreditation in primary and preparatory stages • there are two school libraries contains 4391 books in different branches – there are 3 science labs consisted of (scientific models, samples, chemicals for experiments, physical experiments, charts and pictures) •
• there are 3 computer laps contains (active board, data shows , educational videos , and drama)
• there are different types of activities in school such as sport activities( football , basket ball , swimming) , and artistic activities such as (drawing- singing – dramatization)
Weakness points in this school • • There is a great burden on teachers besides teaching Teachers have negative attitude towards any new training There is no social specialist trained to deal with students. The community involvement between the school and the local community is limited. • Courses obtained by school technology specialist is very old and not suitable for technological progress.
The aims of our first and second school visits • clarifying the aims and areas of our project for both the school principal and our target groups. • collecting data about our school in school profile. • applying needs assessment tool on Quality and Training Unit Officer, • Psychologist and social specialist , and on teachers in different subjects • designing focus group with teachers to determine their needs and difficulties facing them. • making interviews with different teachers in different Specializations
Our plan to achieve these aims in school 1 -Planning stage (before our school visit) The task determining the task of each member in our team. Putting a time plan to organize our tasks in school. this plan illustrate our aims in each visit, and time for each task. preparing the needs assessment tools for our target groups in school. Preparing project presentation slides to illustrate the aims and domains of project to our target groups in school. Designing group on what's app between our university team and school team to determine the date of our visits to school , and aims from each visit. Member who responsible for this task School leader (Dr Sally) Presentation prepared by Dr Hany Nady This group prepared by Dr Ali Mohamed
Implementation phase (during our school visit) The task Member who responsible for this task Interviewing with the school principal and the school's All team member quality and training officials to clarify the nature of the Dr Sally tasks assigned to the work team, the areas of the Dr Ali SUP 4 PCL project, and determine the target groups that Dr Hesham will apply our tools on them Interviewing with our target group to illustrate the aims of our project from presentation and manual of project Collecting data about our school in school profile School leader Dr Sally making an interviews with 8 teachers in different disciplines to determine their needs Designing a focus group and make brain storming session with 12 teachers in different disciplines Dr Ali Dr Hesham Dr Sally Dr Hesham All team member (Dr Hesham , Dr Ali) Applying needs assessment tools on teacher (25 Dr Sally teachers) , quality and training officials (2 teachers) , Dr Ali psychological and social specialist in school (3 teachers)
The task Member who responsible for this task Data entry form needs assessment tools , Dr Ali through interviews , and through focus Evaluation phase group and monitoring Writing our observation from interviews and Dr Hesham results (after our focus group. school visit) Designing reflection group between our All team members to determine our observations through Implementation phase make individual report from each member in All team member our group make our final report about our school visit All team member . this report about (the training needs for our target group , their attitude towards our project, how can we design professional learning community in this school , the strength and weakness points in this school and so on)
Need assessment tools • We applied closed questionnaire on teacher (26 teachers) , quality and training officials (2 teachers) , psychological and social specialist in school (2 teachers) to determine their needs on Wednesday 29112017 • We made interviews with 8 teachers in different subjects to 1 -determine their needs 2 - determine main points that they need to improve their performance. 3 -describe the teaching style that they use with students. 4 -determine the ways of their treating with classroom management and students with special needs. 5 - determine the educational aids and ways of evaluation that they use with students.
We designed a focus group and made brain storming session with 12 teachers in different subjects to 1 - determine the difficulties that face them during the school day. 2 - determine types of activities that they use with their students 3 - mention new trends in education that they use in class. 4 - determine types of classroom rules that they put in class 5 - determine their opinion about( using technology during teaching , using portfolio as authentic evaluation, and their opinion about teaching through teacher team work)
Our target groups training needs , and our observations during school visit Teachers The training needs They need different training of our target on: groups - using new technological programs during teaching - improving their class room management skills - new trends in teaching methods - new teaching methods for talented students - different ways of evaluation and how they make self evaluation to their activities Our observation During our applying needs assessment tools , we observed the following: - there are misconception for teachers about STEM , where teachers think that STEM in only designing models for any science concepts - they have a negative attitude towards working in professional learning community Social worker and Psychologist They need different training on : - Integrative therapy - student violence and how to deal with it - ways to discover individual cases - skills of dealing with talented student - designing portfolio for each case to determine the progress of these cases During our applying needs assessment tools , we observed the following: - they have negative attitude towards self assessment and working with team work , where they prefer to work individually - they have a negative attitude towards any new training. Quality and training officer They need different training on : - leadership skills - strategic planning -new trends in school administration During our applying needs assessment tools , we observed the following: - the unit of quality and training is active, and make different meetings between parents , teachers, and students - the meaning of qualification depend on only writing paper
During our school visit :
the challenges in our school • How can we build professional learning communities in this school? • How will we change teachers’ negative attitude towards our project into positive attitude? • How can we modify teachers’ misconceptions about STEM ? • How can we improve skills of social and psychological specialist to deal with special needs especially talented students ? • How can we help teachers to design different activities in order to improve their student's citizenship ? • How can we help our teachers to apply different active learning strategies in overcrowded classes ? • How can we improve teachers’ technological skills and how can they use different technological aids during their teaching
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