Children Festival

Hum Zinda Hain , Hum Jagtay Hain

Ahle watan (Pukar of Swat Children)

Hum Bachay Pakistan (beautiful nation Song)

Function Pictures

Children Festival

Children Festival were organized at Children Library Complex from 11 To 19th August 2009 by KFT. Different schools participated in this festival. Color's up students of class 2 , 3 , & 4 also particpated in the national songs perormance. All the songs were compsed by famous singer Zain. The performance was very much appreciated by the audience. Following three videos got most popularity. partcipating students were:

1. Muhammad Darain Class 4
2. Danish Javed Class 4
3. Mohsin Raza Class 4
4. Muhammad Faraz Class 4
5. Isha Sameen Class 4
6. Zoha Urooj Class 4
7. Noor Fatima Class 3
8. Iman Sameen Class 3
9. Minahil Noor Class 3
10. Mohsin Raza Class 3
11. Irha Jamil Class 2
12. Abdulla Sameen Senior Level

Ahle waten (Pukar of Awat Children)

Al-Hamra Function

on 13th August 2009 Independance day was celebrated by MYO ( Muslim Youth organization). Students of Color's up (class 2,3,4) participated in it. Their performance on the national songs were wonderful. Justice (r) Nasira Javed (Daughter-in-law of National poet Allama Muhammad Iqbal was the chief guest. She appreicated the students of Color's up, gave beautiful medols by name printed on them and Mr. Sohail Zia Butt (Chairman MYO) gave the beautiful gifts to all the students. School was selected for the Effa-e-ehad award 2009, for its contributuin to build the strong Pakistan foundation.

Independence Day

Students performing "Hum Bachay Pakistani" on 14th August 2009. It was live broadcast on " Royal Tv" and "Sehr Tv" The City 42 (lahore based channel also showed its clipping .

Pakistan Independance Day

Color's up School System celebrated the Independance Day on 13th August 2009 at Al-Hamra and 14th August 2009 at Children Library Complex Near maal Road lahore.

At Al-Hamra the chief guest was Justice( r) Nasira Javed (daughter-in-Law of national PoetAllama Muhammad Iqbal). She gave the"Wafay pakistan Award" to Color's up and medols to all the students. Sohail Zia Butt chairman Muslim Youth Organization gave the gifts the all the partcipating students.

Excellent video performance by the Color's up Students at Children Library Complex on 14th August 2009

Ahle Waten Song Performance

Hum Zinda Hain

Hum Zinda Hain

Eight Habits of Effective Educators

Eight Habits of Effective Educators

We hear a lot about the 21st century learner – but what about the 21st century teacher? What are the characteristics we would expect to see in a successful 21st century educator? Well, we know they are student-centric, holistic, and they’re teaching about how to learn as much as teaching about the subject area. We know, too, that they must be 21st century learners as well. But highly effective teachers in today’s classrooms are more than this – much more.

1. Adapting

Harnessed as we are to an assessment-focused education model, the 21st century educator must be able to adapt the curriculum and the requirements to teach to the curriculum in imaginative ways. They must also be able to adapt software and hardware designed for a business model into tools to be used by a variety of age groups and abilities. They must also be able to adapt to a dynamic teaching experience. When it all goes wrong in the middle of a class, when the technologies fail, the show must go on.

2. Being visionary

Imagination is a crucial component of the educator of today and tomorrow. They must look across the disciplines and through the curricula; they must see the potential in the emerging tools and Web technologies, grasp these and manipulate them to serve their needs. If we look at the technologies we currently see emerging, how many are developed for education? The visionary teacher can look at others’ ideas and envisage how they would use these in their class.

3. Collaborating

Blogger, Wikispaces, Bebo, MSN, MySpace, Second life, Twitter, RSS – as an educator we must be able to leverage these collaborative tools to enhance and captivate our learners. We, too, must be collaborators; sharing, contributing, adapting and inventing.

4. Taking risks

There’s so much to learn. How can you as an educator know all these things? You must take risks and sometimes surrender yourself to the students’ knowledge. Have a vision of what you want and what the technology can achieve, identify the goals and facilitate the learning. Use the strengths of the digital natives to understand and navigate new products, have them teach each other. Trust your students.

5. Learning

We expect our students to be life-long learners. Teachers must continue to absorb experiences and knowledge, as well. We must endeavour to stay current. I wonder how many people are still using their lesson and unit plans from five years ago. To be a teacher, you must learn and adapt as the horizons and landscapes change.

6. Communicating

To have anywhere, anytime learning, the teacher must be anywhere and anytime. The 21st century teacher is fluent in tools and technologies that enable communication and collaboration. They go beyond learning just how to do it; they also know how to facilitate it, stimulate and control it, moderate and manage it.

7. Modelling behaviour

There is an expectation that teachers will teach values, so we must model the behaviors that we expect from our students. We are often the most consistent part of their life, seeing them more often, for longer and more reliably than even their parents. The 21st century educator also models tolerance, global awareness, and reflective practice, whether it’s the quiet, personal inspection of their teaching and learning, or through blogs, twitter and other media, effective educators look both inwards and outwards.

8. Leading

Whether they are a champion of the process of ICT integration, a quiet technology coach, the 21st century educator is a leader. Like clear goals and objectives, leadership is crucial to the success or failure of any project.