Q: Teacher: What is the shortest month?
A: Student: May, it only has three letters.
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PhD thesis in Education
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A great teacher is like a great artist who uses basic tools to transform raw materials into valuable assets of society. However, great artists may not have the best tools or best skills because of their passion and their unique perspective of the world.
Great teachers are not just ones who transmit information, teach skills, and help students earn the best grades. They are those who share their passion for knowledge and curiosity with their students, inspire the students’ creativity, develop their critical thinking ability, and prepare them for the complex world they will face after stepping out of campus.
Teaching is part of the process in discovery and it also provides an opportunity to learn, where knowledge and critical thinking are shared by teachers with their students, and enthusiasm and creative ideas are shared by students with their teachers. Reflecting on my own experience as student, I am truly inspired by the good role-model of my mentors and hope to relay this process to the younger generation and to influence their lives through my teaching and advising.
My undergraduate major is in teaching English in my country, Egypt. It provides me with fundamental pedagogical principles to engage and guide my future teaching practice in undergrad levels. For classroom teaching, my goals are not only to give lectures, but to motivate students’ enthusiasm and encourage discussion and interaction. This provides students with the skills in communication, critical thinking and problem-solving, which are necessary training to pursue future professional careers.
For mentoring student research, my goal is to guide them in research lab and motivate the students to give their best efforts. As students come in with different background and interests, I will provide them with the freedom to explore and to think about problems in new ways. In the mean time, I will also actively engage in their projects and guide students’ discoveries. The value of research advising is so rewarding because we continue generating new ideas during the discovery process and push forward the research.
I am a life-long learner and teacher. I like teaching, learning, practice, and researching. I keep a clear record of the sources I’ve read, along with my critical analysis of their key arguments and what I think makes them relevant to my research project. I have some understanding of relevant academic research.
1-The
Ministry of education felt in need of developing education system. It
announced implementing activity-based learning method in place of the
GTM (Grammar Translation method). I felt happy about that. The system
will change from a teacher-centered method into a learner-centered
method. This announcement failed as old teachers refused to change.
They like to lecture and learners learn by heart, no more.
2- 2 USAID PROGRAMS ( TILO AND NAQAAEE Programs) came to implement active learning. I felt happy and USAID my experiences to help. They chose me to be a trainer of trainers. Some trainees beside the old teachers were reluctant to the active learning method but I did it. I enabled learners to think pair and share in pairs, peers and groups. They use solving problems, making decisions, self-exploration, observation , experimenting and researching methods.
3-My
turning point in my professional career was when the Ministry of
education in Egypt granted me an education scholarship to the University
of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK where I learnt how to
change the methods of teaching and styles of learning from the
traditional teaching method that depends on just translating texts and
facilitating grammar*Grammar Translation Method "GTM") into the critical
thinking -based teaching and learning methods.The teaching and learning
that depends on practice and applicability inspired me most. The role
of researching changed me from a just a learner into an explorer and
excited discoverer and gave me the firing desire to transfer all my
experiences, knowledge, experts to my country Egypt and the whole world
through my lectures, conferences, workshops and webinars to my
colleagues and policy makers in Egypt and to the whole world through my
global education websites, social media and blog to my colleagues all
over the world.
In England, I did 3 researches about:
A- A detailed research about the Egyptian Education Curriculum.
B-A comparison between Egyptian Curriculum and the British one.
C- A research about the relation between the university graduates,
training and skilled labor and the work market requirements in Egypt.
4- I spent much time to think of the real teacher that used the perfect methods of teachings. At last, I realized the the Lord Jesus was the real active teacher. He used all the different methods of teaching that implement active learning and critical thinking skills.
I am grateful that I have experienced different cultures of
educational
systems and I believe this will help me to incorporate the
advantages
and avoid pitfalls in developing my teaching strategies in Egypt and all over the world.
I knew much about teaching through using critical thinking skills
and technology. I knew how learners use critical thinking skills and
technology through learning. I knew how to use critical thinking and
technology in assessment to have the required or desired learning
outcomes. They are the outcomes that are enrolled in the education
policy and the curriculum aims. I discovered that no reform for our
education in Egypt without implementing critical skills in Education
policy, teaching process, learning process and finally assessment
process.
My whole business in my thesis research is that:
( Critical thinking skills: Policy, Curriculum and
Assessment must work together to reform
education, an empirical study case in Egypt.)
They taught me how to be a perfect:
1-Crtical thinker.
2-Technology user.
3-Researcher in education.
4-Education website, blog designer and builder.
D-Participant
in sharing the Ministry in implementing critical thinking skills and
the 21st century skills in education policy, designing the curriculum
and developing assessment. I sent my detailed reports to the Ministry but in vain. All
the 3 fields must work together, not one alone. Alas, the Ministry
implemented that just in its announced education policy, no more.
E-Minister after the other, a big problem in assessment appeared. The questions of the subjective secondary certificate exams were cheated, photographed with mobiles and declared electronically and social media provided students with full answers electronically through the use of the cell phones and the internet. It was a disaster.
F- The new Minister claimed developing not the process of teaching and learning but just assessment. He announced implementing critical thinking skills not through the 3 fields mentioned above, but only through doing assessment based on multiple choice questions that must be performed electronically. The teachers don't know how to teach and learners don't know how to learn the new course content and the teaching activities to match the new system of assessment.
The exam ignored the skills of listening and speaking in English. It ignored all essay questions. It ignored all the other objective questions. More than this, the minister announced that the exams questions will be outside the text books. There is no need for students to study at all. I will go to archives and find all these documents.
G- I wrote reports to the Ministry asking , where are the problem-solutions methods, tasks methods, researching methods, self-expression, inquiry learning, mind-mapping, brainstorming, ...............? None answered me. The Ministry of education is at a loss. There is a mess. All education policy makers, teachers and learners are confused. What a mess it is ! All policy makers, teachers, parents and learners are perplexed. All people feel afraid of the method of assessment whose teachers, learners and parents have never trained to do it before.
The
General secondary certificate exam became just a pubble sheet full of
circles to blacken by learners without any trial to think, understand or
evaluate. Any one in the street can come and blacken any circles by
luck. He may succeed and excel without knowing what it is. Is that
education? What is this? How is this?
Why
is this? We all know (Why). Yes, it is the assessment system that stops
electronic cheating of learners and social media during the exams, no
more. Mp education development or reform as they claim. Is that the
perfect education? No, No, No,..There is a big problem that needs a
solution out of an academic research to reform such education system and
to be an ideal and perfect remedy for all education systems all over
the world. I felt that I badly need to do such global research to reform
education in Egypt and all over the world.
Here are my aims are:
1-I need to help my education community
2-I need to help my country, Egypt.
3-I need to offer my solutions to the whole world.
4- My aim is to add new ideas and knowledge to humanity.
5-My research contributes to my current work in my field. It's relevant.
I see that my research title must be:
( Critical thinking skills: Policy, Curriculum and
Assessment must work together to reform
education, an empirical study case in Egypt.)
4-To achieve
this goal, I have developed a global education model
5-Furthermore, I believe that every person has a stake in the education
6-I have attempted, when possible, to draw from my own experiences
8-I couldn't wait too much.
9-I implement coaching in my model lessons presentation. Power can be defined as the following:“The authority to change the behavior of others and make them do things that they might not do otherwise.” ... Power forces people to complete a task, where influence helps them understand why that task is necessary.
10-I am a savvy negotiator:
In my workshops, my teachers exchange effective
negotiations and arguments
with me to show me
the gaps or talk about the teaching problems they
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Change is an inevitable part of organizational life and if
you have any leadership role, you'll soon be called upon
to help lead it. But, we often fear change.
This leads to resistance. So, managing and leading
change is a challenging role. It will take you outside
of your comfort zone and beyond your existing
management and
supervision tool-set.
This
thesis has been written on commission by me,
Girgis Hanna Haroun, a
supervisor of English at
high schools and colleges in Egypt.
The findings of our research revealed that this
researching study is designed to develop thoughtful
and highly skilled educators, administrators, policy
analysts, and academic practitioners.
Distribution of leadership to include teachers, parents,
and district staff is needed in order to improve
student achievement. Districts provide human and
financial resources to assist schools in achieving
district-established directions.
Districts
hold principals accountable for implementing
and following up on what is learned during district-
sponsored professional development.
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Research Content
The vision is (Developing our Education system)..
It has been known for decades that teachers can
have a profound effect on the students they teach.
Education policies can make a significant difference
in a teacher’s work, which in turn affects their students.
When expert teachers are actively engaged in the
development of education policy and initiatives,
achieving the intended outcomes and avoiding
unintended consequences is more likely.
The reason for doing such research is that I and my
collaboration with their managers or school leaders.
Teachers did't like change. They used
traditional method of teaching like the GTM method.
Learners were just listeners or stores waiting for
being filled with some information that were taught
by heart. Learners knew nothing about any critical
thinking
like practice, analysis, synthesis,
evaluation, imagination, creation
or innovation.
The organizations had managers of instructions and
orders not leaders that could lead the education
process forward through
the leading skills that
the leader should practice and apply.
How do organizational leadership, and researchers
The results section is where I reported the
