M. Umair Khan

I prepare teachers, build learning products, and research what actually works in Pakistan’s classrooms.

Teacher educator and co‑founder of Quva. Fulbright scholar, Ed.M. Harvard Graduate School of Education ’19. Formerly senior lecturer with Durbeen at GECE Hussainabad, where I designed and taught the B.Ed. mathematics pedagogy sequence.

Watch

Three ways into the work

A series I created, a classroom in motion, and the case for reform on national television.

Heirs of Khwarizmi — the series

A mathematics-pedagogy video series I conceived, scripted, and present, made to change how future teachers meet the subject. This is the opening episode.

Durbeen GECE · 2024

Inside the classroom

A teaching demonstration: making negative-integer arithmetic concrete with two-colour counters, the way I model pedagogy for pre-service teachers.

Teaching demo · 2023

Zara Hat Kay, Dawn News

Representing Durbeen on national television: reforming teacher education, and the case for first-language instruction in the early years.

Dawn News · 2025

Contact

Work with me

Consultancy, teacher-training partnerships, speaking, and research collaboration — recent engagements include curriculum design, teacher assessment, and mentor-training workshops for organisations across Pakistan and beyond.

umairkhan@alumni.harvard.edu