Bushra MehboobDubai, UAE
Less effort at the desk, more effect in class
- Now
- Mathematics teacher at a school in Dubai
- Programme
- PgCTL
- Takeaways
- Lesson planning, assessment design, analysing assessment data
Bushra teaches mathematics in Dubai, where planning lessons and building assessments took more out of her than the results seemed to give back. She now plans and designs assessments she can trust, reads the data they produce, and gets more from less effort.
Assessments that are reliable and valid.
Bushra Mehboob says she had a plethora of options when she decided to enhance her professional skills, and that she “fortunately opted for PgCTL”. What she lists from it is practical. She learnt how to create effective lesson plans and execute them in her classroom. She learnt how to design assessments “in a reliable and a valid way”, how to evaluate her learners’ performance, how to see their progress with time, and how to analyse assessments and their data.
The course, as she describes it, starts from classroom management, including how students should be seated, and goes up to the teaching practices a teacher must follow. It also covered which set of data should inform a teacher’s practice and, in her words, “how to make your life easier”.
It has taught me how to reflect upon my own practices, how to improve upon them.
The effort went down.
When she talks about the useful thing that happened to her, she gives a comparison. “The efforts that I used to make earlier as a teacher has been reduced,” she says, “whereas the positive impact that it’s having on the teaching and learning process has been doubled.” She adds: “This is what has been experienced by me as a teacher.” She thanks the Suraasa team for dealing with her group “with great patience”, and for teaching them “a number of things that we didn’t know earlier”.
