The document outlines essential guidelines for checking and maintaining students' notebooks to ensure effective teaching practices. Key instructions include proper date and day formatting, specific ink usage, correction marking methods, and the importance of constructive feedback by teachers. It emphasizes original student work, discouraging copying, and mandates regular notebook checks by teachers and heads of departments.

2. Guidelines for
Notebook Checking

3. IMPORTANCE
• Proper checking and maintenance of
students notebook by the teachers is a very
essential task to ensure good teaching
practices.
• Notebook must showcase both qualitative
and quantitative work of the students.

4. IMPORTANCE
•Quality checking is of utmost important to
provide effective teaching and learning
feedback to students and teachers as well.
•All Fazaia Teachers are therefore requested
to adhere to the following instructions for
improve notebook checking practices.

6. • Date must be written on top left corner for
English and top right corner for Urdu subjects
as:
17th Sep 2019
• Day must be written on top right corner for
English and top left corner for Urdu subjects as:
Monday
DATE AND DAY PATTERN

8. TOPIC /CENTER HEADING
• Top middle lines of the page may utilize for
topic and unit.
USE OF INK TYPE
• Answers must be written with blue ink
while for all others necessary information
like topic, questions and headings etc black
ink may be used

9. • PRIMARY AND PRE-PRIMARY
STUDENTS ARE TO USE PENCIL
ONLY.
• FOR CHECKING ‘BLACK INK’ IS TO
BE USED.
• FOR COUNTER-CHECKING ‘GREEN
INK’ IS TO BE USED.

10. CLASS WORK AND HOMEWORK
• Class work and homework are to be
mentioned in the middle of the top line.

12. CORRECTIONS

13. NOTEBOOK MARKING KEY
• Mistakes and errors must be corrected by the
teachers as displayed here:
• ^……. a word is missing
• /……. start a new sentence
• Gr….. grammar error
• Sp….. Spelling mistakes

14. NOTEBOOK MARKING KEY
• Exp……. Poor expression
• P………. Punctuation/capitalization
• ?........ Unclear meaning
• Ref…….. Problem with reference and
cohesion
• Cr………. corrections

15. NOTEBOOK MARKING KEY
For instance
• Add this sign ^ with the missing word to
highlighted
• Underline the word in case of a grammatical
error and write Gr below it. With the
correction written above it

17. NOTEBOOK MARKING KEY
• For spelling mistakes underline the misspell word
and write Sp below it. Don't forget to write the
correct spelling above it.
• Corrections by the students are imperative for the
learning process therefore regular corrections
must be allocated at the end of work by the
teachers. Corrections are to be done weekly by the
studetns.

19. TEACHERS’ REMARKS
• The remarks by the checker must be
short, positive and polite
• Ensuring constructive feedback as
displayed here:

24. TEACHERS’ INITIALS AND
CHECKING DATE
• Teachers’ initials and date of
checking must be mentioned at the
end of the written work.

26. FREQUENCY OF NOTEBOOK
CHECKING
• NOTEBOOKS MUST BE CHECKED BY
THE SUBJECTS TEACHER WITHIN 04
DAYS AFTER THE SUBMISSION OF
WORK.

27. FREQUENCY OF NOTEBOOK
CHECKING
• NOTEBOOKS MUST BE RE-CHECKED/
COUNTER-CHECKED BY THE
RESPECTIVE HMs AT LEAST TWICE
DURING THE TERM.

28. ORIGINAL WORK
IMPORTANT
• STUDENTS SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED TO
PRODUCE ORIGINAL ANSWERS AND
CREATIVE WORK. COPYING FROM THE
BOARD OR PEERS SHOULD BE STRONGLY
DISCOURAGED. THERE SHOULD BE ‘ZERO
TOLERANCE POLICY’ FOR COPIED WORK.

29. CONCLUSION
Dear Teachers,
You have been briefed in detail about the
procedure and process of copy checking of Fazaia
School and colleges. Please ensure that you
adhere to all the guidelines discussed in this video
because copy checking is an the integral part of
student learning.
Mrs Fouzia Adnan Director, Fazaia TTI