TEACHERS’ TRAINING:

In teachers’ training, we have conducted more than 1000 workshops in the last 17 years primarily for the teacher’s school leaders and secondarily for the parents and children. Throughout the year, different branches conduct trainings at different levels for different audience. In summer and winter holidays, every teacher has to attend rigorous trainings of about a fortnight duration conducted by head office. LZ was a partner organization of Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) for the training of teachers & school leaders for 9 years. Under this program, LZ conducted about 300 workshops for teacher and school leaders throughout the Punjab province.
 Trainers of LZ are highly professional. Most of our trainers are those seasoned teachers who performed brilliantly as a teacher and then they were given responsibility to train others. Due to this factor, their performance as a trainer is far ahead of others because they have first- hand experience. They know the level of children and at the same time, they know the subtle variables of the content matter. To give their skills a cutting edge, they are provided opportunities to attend higher level workshops conducted by renowned national and international trainers.

LZ aims to provide the best training environment for its teachers and other stakeholders. LZ believes in the capacity building of teachers because we think teacher is “Champion of Change”. For this purpose LZ has developed professional training manuals for teacher’s training. These training manuals address the needs to develop the skills of teachers in pedagogy and class room teaching.  

 In 2005, LZ also entered into agreement with Punjab Education Foundation (PEF), Lahore for teacher’s training. After keeping in view the sufficient resource and progress of the LZ in training component, PEF also invited LZ to enter into agreement for training of the head teachers and Principals of the private schools run by PEF all over the Punjab.

LZ also organizes teacher’s training workshop for other private/public sector schools, colleges and Universities at District/Division/Province level. LZ has conducted more than 1000 workshops to different institutions so far. The organization has trained about 20,000 teachers/trainees/students in these training workshops.

SCHOOL MANAGEMENT TRAINING:

Another initiative of the LZ is training of the head teachers &/or principals in management of the schools. LZ has developed in-house resource for capacity building of school leaders. It has also engaged the services of well reputed trainers of province for the professional development of head teachers/Principals. The purpose of this initiative is to provide leadership and management skills to the head teachers in order to manage the affairs of the school. This includes the administration, operational management and financial management at school level. All the head teachers at schools run by LZ are benefited with this management training. LZ is also providing management training to the principals of public schools adopted through PSSP Program.

SOME IMPORTANT TOPICS FOR TEACHER’S TRAINING:

LZ has developed many training manuals for training of teachers. Some of the major components of the teacher’s training are described as under;

1. Subject Based Teaching: (especially English, Science, Urdu and Mathematics): Some new dimensions are here, how to teach in an effective way.
2.  Montessori System:An old system of education but LZ teaches according to the demands of present.
3. Learning Disabilities/Difficulties:(Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia, hyperactivity, slow learning) – Learning Difficulties are the problems which many of our students (about 15% at sometime in their school life) face and teachers don’t know the causes and remedies. They try every method in their armory but in-vain so every teacher especially the teachers of pre-primary should know about these.
4.  How children learn: Learn about the children’s learning.
5.  Motivating Students towards Studies:Some practical ways for teachers to help the students.
6.  Hyperactivity and Hyperactive Children: The most difficult children to handle and knows the cause and management.  
7.  Child Centered Teaching/Activity Oriented Teaching: No-cost, low cost activities that can be used by any teacher anywhere in the world.
8.  Some Very Basic Methods of Teaching in a New Scientific Way: Reading Method, Copybook Method, and Dictation Method – Let’s have a looks some scientific ways for these key methods of teaching that are used especially in the teaching of languages.
9.  Questioning Technique: A teacher can increase 10% of marks of his class if he knows art of posing questions by some special ways & means.
10. Assessment Methods: (Quantitative & Qualitative Assessment) – If we come to know that marks & grades are a deceptive way to evaluate one’s performance, then what?
11.  Behavioral Problems:Managing the problems – some new avenues.
12.  Slow Learners:Are they a reality or fiction?
13.  Bloom’s Taxonomy: Whole of the world follows it and what about our teachers?
14.  Conducive Learning Environment:Let’s learn to make our class environment conducive for maximum learning.
15.  School Management:Become a leader, new and humanistic dimensions of efficient management.
16.  Child Psychology:Understand it and be capable of teaching them.
17.  Psychology of Adolescents: Understand it and be capable of teaching them.
18.  Individual Differences: Everyone accept these but how many comprehend the application in education.
19.  Lesson Planning: A smart way to plan a lesson on a single page – a practical way.
20.  Teaching Languages: New, scientifically proven efficient ways to teach languages.
21.  Personality Development:  What kind of role a school play in Pakistan.
    22.    Creativity and its enhancement – Teachers can change the futures if they know how to enhance it.
22.  Multiple Intelligences, theory of Gardner: A ray of hope for the teachers that open new horizons for students especially the weak ones.
23.  Gifted Students: They are the cream of the nation but are we seriously developing them for future leadership.
24.  Management of children with special needs in the class: Mainstreaming/ Inclusive Education – what we know about the latest idea of world?
25.  Learning Theories: knowledge and application of which will empower teachers to teach efficiently.
26.  Classroom Observation Strategies: Observation is a scientific tool that is used invariably by everyone, let’s be scientist.
27. Visual & Performing Arts in Education: These can be used to enhance the power of instruction.
28. Selection of Books, recruiting teachers, developing leadership: Some tips.
29. Communication & Presentation Skills: To be well verse in these areas is need of the day for a teacher of this era.
30. Using Mind Power for better achievement: Mind power is being used now a days for many fields and education is one of them.
31. Hypnotism for the improvement of studies: Hypnotism can be used in this respect as well, let’s learn how?
32. Power Teaching: One of the latest methods of teaching, it is activity oriented, children move, act, talk and learn.
33. Laws and Principles of Learning: Here are some basic things about learning.
34. Language of the Teacher: Some guidelines about the language of the teachers and still many others.