Home Schooling in Pakistan

[iftikharalam]

I have decided about home schooling my children in Pakistan few months back. I have no doubt in my mind that current educational system of Pakistan only contributes in killing the creativity of children. I am planning to start a Facebook page and a blog on Home schooling Pakistan. The first step is to design a curriculum for children for 8 years of education i.e. before matriculation or O – levels. If anyone of you have any material regarding home schooling in Pakistan or any advice about books that can be included in the course , please share on this thread.

[Ashir ali]

i had been teaching(Mathematics) in pakistan for about 15 years.currently i ma here in the Uk)(could you explain briefly your plan,may be i can help you.You can contact me via email sajidalih@gmail.com

[mfaysal2000]

Count me in your boat please. Faisal

[GeoG]

Bhai, I went through this experience but I did not had positive results I was hoping for,
but I do hope and pray for you that you have postive and better results you are aiming for.
Please conisder the following factors:

- You need a lot of dedication and personal time devotion.
- It will cost you a lot more as professional teachers demand a lot more for private tution.
- your child will be missing the school environment, friendships which are probably assets for one's life.

My suggestion would be to let them go to a good school but arrange for additional tution for subjects you feel they are below par.

[Keepinformed]

Please provide a well defined plan of action where you can end up in an O level or local medium school in Pakistan 8 years after your kid(s) have been home schooled and manage to get admissions.

Home schooling is a brilliant idea but I have seen it usually being done in the west and that too with children who work in the media industry such as child stars who do not have enough time to go to schools every day.

Human beings are social animals and they need interaction with others else confidence never really builds up.

Parents no matter how accomplished in their thinking and self development cannot transfer the needed intricate teachings of nature that only human to human contact can provide.


So my take on this is this: Instead of caging your kids inside your house to teach them creativity (foundations of which are based on interactions of ideas), perhaps setup a school system that does jihad against the terrors of conventionalism?

Your blood need their school. Give them that.

[Heart]

Brother Iftikhar Alam. You are on the right direction. I have also just started homeschooling. Check out this site.

http://pakistan-home-education.blogspot.com/

The above blog is maintained by the following pakistan based yahoo group on homeschooling.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pakistan-home-education/

Just check this article out by a US teacher who won the Teacher of the year award.

http://www.thesunmagazine.org/archives/937?page=1

Its a bit long but i would highly recommendation is to read it. After all a teacher himself is saying that this so there must be something wrong.

While there may be stories about failure, but I know successful stories also. Its just that homeschooling is out of the box solution and hence you do find a lot of people objections to it. Great people donot come out by following tradition. They break the traditions with a will to succeed and fight the opposing views which is off course in majority (as majority follows the tradition) and it is only then that they emerge victorious.

[iftikharalam]

i had been teaching(Mathematics) in pakistan for about 15 years.currently i ma here in the Uk)(could you explain briefly your plan,may be i can help you.You can contact me via email sajidalih@gmail.com

Thank you for your reply!! My plan is to design a curriculum for 8 years of education at hoome before O-lelvel or matriculation in Pakistan. My goal is to design an education that provides parallel religious and modern science education to children. The goal is to produce " Iqbal ka Shaheen" after 8 years of education.. I want them to learn Urdu, English and Arabic as languages!! While Iqbal's poetry will be a constant subject for 8 years!! I am doing some research on some good books and I have no issues if I have to buy expensive books online, but I want to desing a curriculum with best books available on the subjects of Mathematics, Science, creative writing and other common subjects!!

Let me know if you can help me with books about mathematics!!

[iftikharalam]

Count me in your boat please. Faisal

Can u suggest any good books?

[PakistaniFirst]

The following site is may help as it work for my kids.

I sent my kids to school up to primary and now home Schooling cause their main goal to become pro-sports.

my 14years now Pakistan junior tennis champion and represent Pakistan in the ITF Qatar Asian Junior Championship, also selected for junior device Cup.

http://www.khanacademy.org/

[iftikharalam]

Bhai, I went through this experience but I did not had positive results I was hoping for,
but I do hope and pray for you that you have postive and better results you are aiming for.
Please conisder the following factors:

- You need a lot of dedication and personal time devotion.
- It will cost you a lot more as professional teachers demand a lot more for private tution.
- your child will be missing the school environment, friendships which are probably assets for one's life.

My suggestion would be to let them go to a good school but arrange for additional tution for subjects you feel they are below par.

Can you Provide us details about your experience? You now, true friendships and relations are of the age after 15 years, when teens have more sense about values and relations!! I am not home schooling because of bad perfoemance or below par performance of my kids in school in any subject, but I am home schooling because I believe that schooling system in Pakistan consits of back dated books + unprofessional teachers + busines oreinted educational institutes + ratafication style of teaching = total destruction of child's capabilties and creativity.. They are not producing any potential leaders but greedy materialistic outcome is coming out from these institutes... This is the prime reason !!

[Heart]

This guy has been working on development of a curriculam and has been able to develop one. His name is Farrukh Hasan and his blog is

http://farrukhhassan.wordpress.com/

You can contact him through his email that can be found on the above blog.

Rgds

Thank you for your reply!! My plan is to design a curriculum for 8 years of education at hoome before O-lelvel or matriculation in Pakistan. My goal is to design an education that provides parallel religious and modern science education to children. The goal is to produce " Iqbal ka Shaheen" after 8 years of education.. I want them to learn Urdu, English and Arabic as languages!! While Iqbal's poetry will be a constant subject for 8 years!! I am doing some research on some good books and I have no issues if I have to buy expensive books online, but I want to desing a curriculum with best books available on the subjects of Mathematics, Science, creative writing and other common subjects!!

Let me know if you can help me with books about mathematics!!

[iftikharalam]

Brother Iftikhar Alam. You are on the right direction. I have also just started homeschooling. Check out this site.

http://pakistan-home-education.blogspot.com/

The above blog is maintained by the following pakistan based yahoo group on homeschooling.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pakistan-home-education/

Just check this article out by a US teacher who won the Teacher of the year award.

http://www.thesunmagazine.org/archives/937?page=1

Its a bit long but i would highly recommendation is to read it. After all a teacher himself is saying that this so there must be something wrong.

While there may be stories about failure, but I know successful stories also. Its just that homeschooling is out of the box solution and hence you do find a lot of people objections to it. Great people donot come out by following tradition. They break the traditions with a will to succeed and fight the opposing views which is off course in majority (as majority follows the tradition) and it is only then that they emerge victorious.

Excellent!! thanks for your post brother!! My main concern is to design a curriuclum, set of books to include in the course to teach!! Can you suggest any books for each grade from 1 to 8?

[indigo]

There are many good schools in Pakistan. Only affordability is a factor.

[Joker]

Extremely bad idea, Home schooling may cause laziness,lack of sense of competition, lack of discipline ,bad communication skills and lack of confidence.

[iftikharalam]

Extremely bad idea, Home schooling may cause laziness,lack of sense of competition, lack of discipline ,bad communication skills and lack of confidence.

Do some research and you will find answers of all of your questions.. This thread is not for those who do not know anything about homeschooling and want to comment without research or anything!! I have already researched about it and already decided about home schooling!! So please who can help me and are already homeschooling thier children may reply!!

[iftikharalam]

There are many good schools in Pakistan. Only affordability is a factor.

Thanks for your suggestion, but I have done some research about schools but I am not satisfied!! Even expensive schools are not doing any good!! They serioulsy lack character building education, and no school offers arabic as a literature and as a language like Urdu and English!!

[iftikharalam]

The following site is may help as it work for my kids.

I sent my kids to school up to primary and now home Schooling cause their main goal to become pro-sports.

my 14years now Pakistan junior tennis champion and represent Pakistan in the ITF Qatar Asian Junior Championship, also selected for junior device Cup.

http://www.khanacademy.org/

Thanks for your reply!! It is good to know about your kids!! This is great!! What are the resources u use to teach your kids at home!!

[Unicorn]

All the best its a good idea. I would suggest to include a couple of more kids if you can. I think kids learn better as a team.

[iftikharalam]

This guy has been working on development of a curriculam and has been able to develop one. His name is Farrukh Hasan and his blog is

http://farrukhhassan.wordpress.com/

You can contact him through his email that can be found on the above blog.

Rgds

This is great help!! This is what I was looking for a long time!! Excellent work!! Great!!

Thanks

[PakistaniFirst]

Thanks for your reply!! It is good to know about your kids!! This is great!! What are the resources u use to teach your kids at home!!

Just give me your contact details and I will explain you....... No worries.... My direct mail is tkyshoji@yahoo.com