High Performance Teaching (HPT): During my engagement with Punjab HEC, I was asked to facilitate a workshop for educators in order to benchmark HPT as behavioural KPIs, to design annual recognition and rewards for high-performing teachers, with the following targeted learning outcomes:
Understanding the Learning Environment: Participants will recognise how behaviours influence the learning effectiveness of students during classroom lecture sessions.
Enhancing Behavioural Conduct: Participants will understand that beyond subject-matter expertise, the effectiveness of teaching methods—including content structuring and lecture delivery is pivotal in enhancing student learning outcomes.
Applying a Behavioural Framework: Participants will learn to define and assess drivers of learning effectiveness within specific behavioural domains, leading to the standardisation of High-Performance Teaching practices for all stakeholders.
Workshop Design: We pitched the following elements as part of our comprehensive workshop design to assigned learning outcomes:
Comprehensive Behavioural Framework: Develop a detailed framework encompassing 9 major domains, 36 sub-domains, and 25 core behaviours to guide the roll-out of the pilot program and ensure consistent application of behavioural standards.
LEGO®-Based Pedagogy: Integrate LEGO® activities within a structured workshop format to maintain audience engagement, encourage hands-on problem-solving, and foster a sense of ownership among participants.
Gamified Learning: Employ gamification techniques to make workshop content more interactive and engaging, promoting active, user-driven participation in a fun learning environment.
Teacher Profiling Modules: Implement online self and peer profiling modules as a follow-up to the workshops, enabling comprehensive scoring and feedback for educators to enhance their teaching practices.
Social-consciousness and Learning: Social-consciousness is knowing how to interact with and influence others. It is the behavioural lens which helps us develop and sustain longer-term connections or bonds with individuals and/or communities we manage.
4-day Intensive Workshop: We received a diverse cohort from across public and private Universities of Punjab for an intensive 4-day workshop; ‘Measuring & Creating Learning Effectiveness in Classrooms’. The workshop was aimed at cultivating social-consciousness via a behavioural framework, thinking beyond traditional pedagogical approaches using LEGO® and integrating the Tarbiyah principles and strands for educational development.
