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Girgis Hanna Haroun Abdoh
+20 01149789475
girgishannaharoun@yahoo.co.uk
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I am excited to be applying for the Doctorate degree in Education, at school of education, Swedish University, Sweden, EU. As someone who loves education, possesses excellent organizational skills, have experience of 32 years in teaching, supervision, researching and leadership and can connect easily with students, this is the perfect opportunity for me to continue my professional development. I believe that my experience and passion for teaching would be the ideal fit for the philosophy and resources offered by your institution, and I am thrilled at the opportunity to join your great University.
I have been a classroom teacher for 20 years and 12 years in training, supervision, assessment, evaluation and researching in various capacities and grade levels. In each class that I have taught, 100% of my students passed their exams and improved their scores comparatively. On top of that, I received the Teacher of the Year award for activity-based learning method twice and was highly rated by parents and students in Egypt and the staff of the University of East Anglia, School of education, lifelong learning, Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK, alike.
1-Good personal qualities
I give and take. I advise, guide and help my teachers
3-I communicate skillfully:
I
use my 3 electronic mails, an education website, chat
rooms,
social media like Face book and Twitter, Cell
phone and House phone to give and take information,
knowledge and help. I am in contact with more than
36,000 visitors from 154 countries all over the world
through my international education site.
4-I manage time:
I
make a "To Do" list or a schedule as an agenda for
my work. I allocate
time for feedback, comments,
criticism and doing tasks and reports.
5- I use more influence and little power
thoughtfully and 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..
6- 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
face at schools.
7-I manage conflict:
Example:
When conflict occurs within my network, I look for points of mutual agreement to resolve the conflict through. I Create and maintain a bond with my adversary. I establish a dialogue for conflict negotiation.
8-I reward people
Examples:
I encourage better performance,so I reward the people who give a hand, participate, share me my plans and practice.
9-I use open, diverse and networks
Examples:
My trainees are different in ages, experiences,
backgrounds and abilities. Good relations engage
all of them.
10- My skills are diverse:
I
am excellent at listening, speaking, reading, writing
and interviewing skills. I use these skills when I set
plans to solve the problems of
education,
development and culture in Egypt. I would have a
possibility
to collaborate with teachers and experts in
the world .
Leading competencies / real situations:
1-Communication
I used communication to convince some of my colleagues to share in the active learning training program.
2-Decision making
I used the skill of decision making to include the slow
learners who were poor at listening and speaking. Others were poor at reading and writing. Others were good at the same
class. I made a decision that I must give 4 additional periods to those
learners.I used 4 methods, 4 strategies and 4 teaching aids. I
included all of them.The plan succeeded.The learners' levels rose.
3-Leadership
As a leader or an instructional coordinator of English at high schools, I use my skills in lecturing, assessment, evaluation modeling lessons to teach my teachers how to plan lesson, present a lesson and assess learners' performance through holding workshops.
4-Results Orientation and team work
6-Responsibility:
It was the final period when I entered my colleague's classroom. He faced a problem with presenting the new vocabulary. At the end of the period, he asked me to teach him how to present new vocabulary.
The bell rang and it was time for all to leave school. I took the responsibility and made a decision to stay with my colleague at school for more than an hour till he learnt how to perfect vocabulary presentation.
After
my Ministry of education had sent me to East Anglia University,
Norwich, Norfolk, England,UK. It waited for me to come back and benefit
from my experiences and experts to play a role in reforming the
education system in Egypt. I did it perfectly through using my
workshops, lectures, model lessons and I used my international
education website to pass my experiences on to all my colleagues.
8-Technical skills:
Roles / Responsibilities / Tasks / Technical skills:
1- Secondary supervisor of English at high, prep. and primary schools.
2-As a leader, I lecture
teachers through doing workshops, debates and professional development meetings on the standard of the primary, Middle, High
schools and Colleges I supervise in my Education
Association and my Education zone.
3-I do the jobs of a human resources manager (HRM).
4-I assess and evaluate teachers' and learners' performance.
I set all the terms exams. I am a technology geek.
5-I present Oxford Education topics in the Academy of teachers.
6- I teach English at Colleges, High, Prep. and Primary schools.
7-I
implement my observation sheet during visiting my teachers' classes.
It includes :
A- Pr-observation items.
B- During observation items.
C- Post observation items.
10-I am a Blogger / a guest post publisher.
Publications and achievements:
1-Designing my own personal international education website
2-Writing a lot of education articles and 12 education researches.
3-Doing much research about critical thinking skills and practice.
4-Doing much research about practical learning in the UEA.
5-Designing a mind-map (PDF) about
(TILO / active Learning project).

PhD thesis in Education
Literature Review
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.
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

In order to find out the answer to the research question


The results section is where I reported the
1-Learning
Finding result 1:
Why Learning?
1) You can grow as a person, develop your knowledge
base and improve yourself for the better.
2)
Learning something new gets us access to new
and different
opportunities and the chance to try new
experiences that might be the best ones you have ever tried!
3) You could potentially earn more money in your work
life from learning
a new and appropriate skill or by
developing one that links to the work you do. You’ll
rejuvenate your working life and get so
much more from it.
4) Developing a new skill will influence the way you
do things day to day and they will make doing things
quicker and easier, saving time, energy and stress.
5) Learning across our lives is essential for staying
up to date in an ever-changing world. If we stop
learning things, we can stagnate and
actually move
backwards, especially in our professional lives.
6) Learning new things is very important for our
self-esteem.Learning
something new keeps brain
cells active and allows us to succeed at
something
new, allowing us to give ourselves a big pat
on the back.
7) Trying anything different ensures you meet new
people, some of whom will have similar interests
to you and be interested in some of the same
things.
You could make new friends and really enhance
your social or work life.
Why Learning?
1) You can grow as a person, develop your knowledge
base and improve yourself for the better.
2)
Learning something new gets us access to new and
different opportunities and the chance to try new
experiences that might be the best ones you have
ever tried!
3) You could potentially earn more money in your work
life from learning
a new and appropriate skill or by
developing one that links to the work
you do.
You’ll rejuvenate your working life and get so
much more from it.
4) Developing a new skill will influence the way you
do things day to
day and they will make doing things
quicker and easier, saving time, energy and stress.
5) Learning across our lives is essential for staying
up to date in an
ever-changing world. If we stop
learning things, we can stagnate and actually move
backwards, especially in our professional lives.
6) Learning new things is very important for our
self-esteem. Learning something new keeps brain
cells active and allows us to succeed at
something
new, allowing us to give ourselves a big pat
on the back.
7) Trying anything different ensures you meet new
people, some of whom
will have similar interests to
you and be interested in some of the same
things.
You could make new friends and really enhance
your social or work life.
Why Learning Foreign Languages?
Foreign
Language study creates more positive
attitudes and less prejudice
toward people who are
different Analytical skills improve when students
study a foreign language
Business skills plus foreign language skills make
an employee more valuable in the marketplace.
Dealing with another culture enables people to gain
a more profound understanding of their own culture.
Creativity is increased with the study of foreign
languages.
Graduates often cite foreign language courses as
some of the most
valuable courses in college
because of the communication skills
developed
in the process.
International travel is made easier and more
pleasant through knowing a foreign language.
Skills like problem solving, dealing with abstract concepts, are
increased when you study a foreign language.
Foreign language study enhances one’s opportunities
in government, business, medicine, law, technology,
military, industry, marketing, etc.
A second language improves your skills and grades
in math and English and on the SAT and GRE.
Four out of five new jobs in the US are created as
a result of foreign trade.
Foreign languages provide a competitive edge
in career choices: one is able to communicate
in a second language.
Foreign language study enhances listening skills
and memory. One participates more effectively
and responsibly in a multi-cultural world if one
knows another language.
Your marketable skills in the global economy are
improved if you master another language.
Foreign language study offers a sense of the past:
culturally and linguistically.
4 New Paradigms
for
Pedagogy
1-Pedagogy:
Pedagogy is a child-focused teaching approach.
It is the art and science of helping kids learn.
It is the discipline that deals with the theory and
practice of education; it thus concerns the study
and practice of how best to teach.
Its aims range from the general (full development of
the human being via liberal
education) to the narrower
specifics of vocational education (the
imparting and
acquisition of specific skills).
It is the method and practice of teaching, especially
as an academic subject or theoretical concept: the
relationship between applied linguistics and
language pedagogy.
With pedagogy, the learner is a dependent personality.
The teacher determines what, when and how anything
is learned. The learner gas few
resources.
The teacher devises transmission techniques to
store
knowledge in the learner's heart.
2-Andragogy:
Andragogy is an adult-focused teaching approach.
It is a self-directed learning. It is the art and science
of helping adults learn.
It is the discipline that deals with teaching and
learning through negotiation, self-dialoguing,
self exploration, argument and studying the
problem to find solutions for it.
The learner watches, observes and asks
(Why is this? and why is that?).
learning is centered around both the teacher
and learner.
The education process
is set up on the basis of
a kind of co-operation between the teacher and
the learner. This process focuses on analysis,
synthesis and
evaluation. Dialoguing with one's
self and dialoguing with others are necessary.
Brainstorming is basic to teach learners critical
thinking. Brainstorming happens
when the teacher
asks questions to enable learners to generate ideas.
Generating ideas form a mind map.
3-Heutagogy:
Heutagogy is a Self-Determined Learning.
It is the discipline that deals with teaching
and learning through researching and navigation.
The education process is set up on the basis of the
independent learning.
The learner watches, observes and asks (Why isn't this?
and why isn't that?).
This process focuses on evaluation, imagination,
creation and innovation.
Creation or innovation is the knowledge production
context. The cognition level is the epistemic level.
The education sector is for post graduate learners at
the universities to
get a higher Diploma degree,
a Master degree or a Doctoral degree.
There are three different types of quantitative
research question.
4-Synergogy
It is defined as a
“systematic approach to learning
in which the members of small teams learn from
one another through structured interactions” .
The Cooperative learning that will focus on the
learning and the problem
solving by using the
group activities and joint projects.
It has shown
to be active for most part of the
educational level. "With adult, it is common to use
the synergy because the adults retain more
information when this method is used than using
other methods. "
Teaching is the process of attending to people’s
needs, experiences and
feelings, and making
specific interventions to help them learn
particular things.
Interventions commonly take the form of questioning,
listening, giving information, explaining some
phenomenon, demonstrating a skill or process,
testing
understanding and capacity, and facilitating
learning activities (such as note taking, discussion,
assignment writing, simulations and
practice).
Assessment
Assessment is a strategy used to collect information
based on evidence to improve the process of learning
or performance. Assessment is part of evaluation.
It is done by the teacher himself inside class during
the presentation. This collected information is
learner-centered, course based, frequently
anonymous, and not graded.
Assessment is the process of objectively understanding
the state or condition of a thing, by observation and
measurement. Assessment of teaching means taking
a measure of its effectiveness. “Formative” assessment
is a measurement for improving it.
1-The oral discussion.
2-The feedback.
3-The observation sheet.
4-The grading register.
5-The weekly and monthly reports.
6-The learners' portfolio and achievements.
7-The projects and the monthly tests.
8-Performance tasks and self reflection.
9-Periodic quizzes and discussion out of a questions bank .
10-Baseline assessment.
11-Check lists, check points or grade books.
12-Unit projects and extended projects .
13-Register of standards and anecdotal records .
14-Remedial work plan for slow learners and prizes for
advanced or gifted ( Learners with special needs ).
15-Formative interviews.
16-Diagnostic tests.
17-Formative general pretests.
18-summative specific standardized oral tests.
19-Marking and grading.
20-Embedded projects / Electronic projects.
21-Multiple choice Exercises/Close tests/True or false/short answer
22-Essays / written reports / paragraphs / experiments.
23- A survey and a data analysis.
Areas of assessment:
1-The discussion share between the teacher and the learners.
2-The learners' share in pairs and in groups.
3-The learners' role-playing, practical learning .
4-The learners' share in solving problems and projects.
5-Learners' story telling, feedback and self-evaluation.
6-The learners' share in the electronic teaching programs.
7-learners'share in songs, debating, interviewing and miming.
8-The learners portfolio, written exercises and tests.
9-The learners' ability to listen, speak, read and write fluently.
10-The learners' ability to dialogue with themselves and with
others, imagine, discover, research, create and innovate.
11-The learner's interaction with the course content, the peer,
the pair, the group, teaching aids, means of technology, the
teacher and with the environmental activities.
Stages of Assessment:
KWL Charts:
K-what do the students already know?
W-what do the students need and want to know?
L-what did the students learn?
Building rapport with students is very important.
“The empirical results reported herein should
be considered in the light of some limitations.”
1-Time constraints
Just as researchers have deadlines to turn in
their class papers, academic researchers also
must meet the deadline for submitting a research
manuscript to a journal. Therefore, the time
available to study a research problem and to
measure change over time is constrained by
the deadline of my “assignment.”
I should have Made sure I choose a
research
problem that I will be able to complete well
before the
assignment’s deadline. If time
constraints negatively impacted my
study
in any way, acknowledge this impact by
mentioning a need for a
future study to
answer this research problem.
2-Conflicts arising from cultural bias
and other personal issues
I would like to express my very great
appreciation to those people who helped me during
my work on this thesis. They gave advice and
assistance in keeping my progress on schedule.
I thank:
(The Main supervisor,The Second supervisor,
The Other academic staff in my department,
The support staff, Administrative staff,
The referees, funding bodies, the supervisor,
Any students who undertook side projects with me,
friends and colleagues) .
I would like to offer my special thanks to the
students who undertook side projects with me.
I want to thank my people in charge of the
education system in my
country for
and inviting me to work on this project.
I would like to thank the schools, companies,
associations and other educational associations
for their assistance
with the collection of my data :
personnel of schools ( Affiliated Institutions) for
their direct technical help, time statistics/data and
effort. Special thanks to my colleagues, for their
help and support.
I wish to acknowledge the help provided by my
public supervisor for his help, guidance, and advice
in times when I needed it most.
I am particularly grateful for the assistance given by my
professors in East Anglia for their general supervision
and general administrative support.
My special thanks are extended to the staff of my
team for their writing assistance, technical editing,
language editing, and proof-reading.”
1-Some texts from publications of my professors in
East Anglia University, Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK.
2-Some quotations from online sites.