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Culturally responsive education (CRE) is advocated useful for addressing teacher-student cultural mismatch and students' achievement gap. A content analysis of teacher education programs offered in thirty-four (34) Pakistani institutions was carried out. The study found neither the offered curricula aimed at developing prospective teachers CRE skills, nor national standards has been defined for CRE. Considering the multi-cultural aspects of Pakistani society, the study recommends that Pakistani teacher education institutions take necessary measures to integrate essential knowledge and pedagogical aspects to develop prospective teachers' CRE skills. National CRE standards also needed to be defined for the promotion of CRE in Pakistan.

Keywords: Culturally Responsive Education (CRE), Teacher Education

Computer literacy is necessary to understand the power of modern technology and to help the students in preparing them for the future professions or occupations. Pakistan formulated National Information and Communication Technology strategy for Education (NICTE) in 2004-5. To introduce Computer Science subject at secondary level, Punjab IT Lab project was launched by the provincial government of Punjab. Under this Project 4286 computer labs were established in public secondary schools of Punjab in 2009.The purpose of this study was to investigate the problems, found in outdated computer Textbook of grade 9^th at secondary level. It was a review of a text book. The study was quantitative. A survey instrument was designed to collect data through questionnaires. A simple random sampling technique was used to select a sample of Head teachers, computer teachers and students of the schools. The population of the study was high schools of Sargodha Division. The study was delimited to 226 Head teachers, 226 computer teachers and 452 students during the session 2012-2014. Data collected, were analyzed by applying percentage and mean score. The findings revealed that Content standards needed to be upgraded and updated to match the market requirements and internationally competitive in order to better prepare those students who were not going on further studies. Ms Office might be included in part 1 of the Computer Science to make computer education meaningful and relevant to the needs of the students.

Keywords: Contents, Computer Science, Secondary Level

It was an M.Phil / Ms Level research work. It was administered to study the Overall Quality and Standard of DSD’s Mentoral Support Programme at Cluster Training and Support Center Level. Stratified systematic sampling technique was employed hereby. Structured Interview was used as instrument in this study. During the analysis of data, the percentage was used as a statistical measure tendency of the respondents and the overall standard of mentoring programme. The Sample consisted of the Heads of 40 Cluster Training & Support Centres of Mandi Baha-ul-Din district. Cluster Training & Support Centres (CTSCs) have been established at grass-root level to impart mentoring support to all Primary School Teachers (PSTs). Objective of research was to judge the Overall Quality and Standard of DSD’s Mentoral Support Programme at Cluster Training and Support Center Level in light of Cluster Training & Support Centres Heads opinion and perception. Major findings of the study indicated that Cluster Training & Support Centres Heads were satisfied about the overall standard of Directorate of Staff Development   mentoral programme development. But they were not satisfied about the eligibility criteria of District Teacher Educators qualification, DTEs mentoral methodology, the effectiveness of mentoral programme of PSTs professional development through mentoral support programme and the DTEs professional performance. Conclusions of the study indicated that Cluster Training & Support Centres Heads were not fulfilled regarding the DTEs mentoral methodology.

Keywords: Quality, mentoral support, perceptions

The study was conducted to analyze the perceptions and practices of government school headteachers regarding their role as instructional leader. The population of the study consisted of all government secondary school headteachers from Punjab province. The sample was selected from two conveniently selected districts – Lahore and Khushab. The study was conducted in two phases involving 40 government secondary school headteachers. In the first phase, their perceptions regarding instructional leadership were sought. In the second phase, after sharing different dimensions of instructional leadership they were asked whether they are performing their role as instructional leader or not; and if not then what are the reasons. The study found that the headteachers have no clear perceptions of instructional leadership neither are they performing the role as instructional leader.  They feel that heavy administrative responsibilities and paper work hamper their efforts to lead the instructional activities.

Keywords: Instructional leadership, perceptions, practices, government school, headteachers

In the recent years special education is being focused in Pakistan. Many institutions of special education have been established in the country. Heads of these institutions are facing many problems and issues for sustainable development and to cope with emerging challenges. So, keeping in view the importance of special education, the purpose of the study was to identify the problems and issues faced by heads of special education institutions in Sargodha City. The study was qualitative in nature. Census sampling technique was used to select sample for the study. All the 12 heads of special education institutions in Sargodha city in Punjab province of Pakistan was selected as a sample for this study. Semi structured interviews were conducted to collect the data from the heads of special education institutions. The interview protocol was consisting of five questions regarding problem and issues of heads of special education institution. It was developed by researchers and was validated by two experts of the field. Interviews were audio recorded by the researchers. The average time for an interview was 30 minutes. Collected data from interviews were first transcribed then translated from Urdu, a National Language of Pakistan, to English and analysed through descriptive coding techniques and percentages. Findings of the research show that heads of special education institutions are facing many problems and issues such as shortage of finance, political pressure, lack of teaching and administrative staff, and lack of awareness.

Keywords: Heads, Problems, Sargodha, Special Education

The study at hand was conducted to determine the relationship of teachers’ reading habits with their performance at secondary schools in Punjab, Pakistan. Multi-stage random sampling technique was applied to conduct the study. Three districts of the Punjab province namely Okara, Sahiwal and Pakpattan were randomly selected. Total selected sample was 248 (N= 288 including 128 Male and 120 Female) Secondary School Teachers. The study was survey in nature. Researchers used two questionnaires viz., Reading Habits Inventory for Secondary Schools Teachers (RHI-SSTs) and Teacher Performance Evaluation Scale (TPES). The questionnaires were developed and piloted by the researchers before administration. Alpha Reliability of RHI-SSTs was 0.81 and of TPES was 0.87. Pearson (r) and t-test was applied for data analysis.Significant and positive relationship between teachers’ reading habits and their class performance was found. Reading motivation is a significant predictor in teachers’ performance.

Key words: Reading Habits, Teachers’ Performance, Secondary Schools