Essay writing - objectives & Methods:

Writing, drills and exercise to develop writing habits - Progressive writing Programmes at various schools level - Mechanics of writing, its stages - General consideration while teaching writing - Characteristics of good handwriting, cause of bad handwriting, remedial measure.

Exercise giving in Higher Secondary Level:

Collecting News - Distribution of Information in detailed ways - describing objects, places, festivals and events - writing simple sequences - Topic connected with the pupil's environmental and experience - paragraph writing - parrallel Paragraphs - Simple letter - kinds of letter - Picture composition, teaching of letter writing - need for systematic correction.

Teaching Skills:

Teaching of translation, its role, merits and limitations, utility of Translation, its process and usage.

Teaching Skills:

Aims of teaching Urdu, Knowledge, Application, Comprehension, Skills, Interest and Attitudes, Literary Appreciation, literary expression, Instructional objectives and their specifications in terms of learning outcomes evaluation and assessment, Teaching aids Flash cards Macro Micro teaching Lesson plan programmed learning Language laboratory Mechanical aids -Overhead Projector - Tape Recorder - Radio - Television - Text book - Black board.

Hearing:

Understanding the various forms of literature - Learning through listening -developing listening habit - Loud Reading.

and forming brief questions - Listening to Radio programme - Purpose of observation and exercise - Paraphrasing and summarizing - specifying the theme - understanding the different kinds of advertisements and their meaning.

Dialogue:

The appropriate method of communication - Communication skill -Communicating with-out grammatical errors - using proverbs and phrases to teach initial level of conversation, debate according to grammar.

Reading:

Importance of reading in life - procedures of reading and gathering information -Types of reading - silent and loud reading - encouraging literary interest through reading - Motivating to read various literary books, daily, weekly and monthly magazines - reading exercises.

Writing:

Importance of writing - Value of writing in speech and drafting - The correct ways of using correct language - Correcting the written exercise of pupils - The level of students and homework, level of pupils and their comprehending ability in writing exercise. Keep the line straight, Follow - look - Say - Write method copy writing, transcription, dictation and composition provide oppor-tunity for correct spelling. Vocabulary bound games - Knowing grammatical errors.

Oral Exercise:

Loud reading - correcting the faulty pronunciations - Importance of memorization - Proper utterances of sentences Literary research, Drama and Oral Exercise.

Lesson Planning:

Lesson plans for various level Prose, Poetry, Non-detailed and Grammar. The Teacher should know the level, class and standard of his pupils. It helps in giving quality based education. It makes the class interesting. Proper lesson plan, chart, pictures, blackboard duster and chalk are important teaching aids.

Question:

Importance of question, Need of questioning - Procedures to frame questions -Kinds of questions - Question related to domestic life, educational background and examination point of view.

Urdu language Teacher:

Every Urdu Language teacher must possess these qualities in him/her:- excellent character and good conducts, pleasing personality, a very good common sense and presence of mind, service minded and Loyal to his/her duties, simple by nature and good academician. He / She qualified and trained teacher craving and yearning for knowledge.

Rules and Regulations in development of educational system:

Reading and prescribing good and standard books - Relevance of good books -extending help to needy and destitute - uniting people and giving the common platform -Helping to get decent and proper livelihood - motivating and popularizing urdu language and urdu books. Re-specting human values.

Preparation of syllabus & Teaching books:

Role of Lesson plan for present condition - Syllabus and students status -Students psychol-ogy and emotional behavior - Importance and relevance of scientific outlook in syllabus - Making use of school library - Seeking help from virtual libraries.

Use of Educational Aid in Language Teaching:

Audio and Visual aids, chalkboard, Flannel Boards, Bulletin Boards, Plastigraph, Magnetic boards, meaning and their utilities, Pictures, Picture Cutouts, Poster, Charts, Comic, Cartoons, models Diorama and their uses. Activity Aids, their meaning types -Demonstration, meaning and significance - Dramatization, dramatized experience -Utility of projectors in classroom - motion picture and Television video cassettes, Application to teaching language.

Examinations & Evaluation:

Meaning of corrective evaluation and its application to urdu teaching. Purpose of evalua-tion, its techniques and tools. Essentials of an effective evaluation Programmes -Aims of Evalua-tion. Identification of Objectives, their behavioral specification; learning experiences, assessment tools available, objective based test material; their pre-requisites; Forms of questions, detailed explanation. Blueprint how it helps in test-construction, objective - based tests and linguistic skills, unit test, its importance, planning and execution unit test and Formative Evaluation.

Co-curricular activities & its importance:

Conducting debate, literary and quiz competitions, participating in sports and encouraging sportsmanship among pupils - Taking students to educational tours, Cultural meeting, Seminars and literary plays.

Practical Work:

¾ Conducting seminars.

¾ Dramatization.

¾ Formation of sentences.

¾ Lesson plan based teaching.

¾ Using radio to develop listening habit.

¾ Understanding various types of compositions - choosing appropriate title to composition.

¾ Preparing a booklet and its uses.

¾ Eliminating common defects in pronunciation and style.

¾ Preparing Question Bank.

¾ Imparting the proper role.

¾ Motivating language and taking educational tours.

¾ Proverb according to region phrases and useful references from various sources.

Reference Books:

1. Teaching of Urdu Saleem Farani

2. Method of Teaching Urdu Fakarul Hasan 3. Teaching of Language Moulvi Abdul Hai

4. How to Teach? Dr. Salamathullah

5. How to teach Urdu ? Moulvi Saleem Abdullah

6. How to write Urdu? Rasheed Hasan Khan

7. Poetry and Teaching of Poetry Akthar Ansari

8. Urdu Sources Rasheed Hassan Khan

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