Stella Pauline Punitha
How blue is our planet? Is a book that can beautifully supplement the EVS/science textbooks in school. Through its 16 short stories the book succeeds in bringing out in children a concern for their surroundings.
Year: 2015
Linking geography with life
Susheela Raghavan
Geography in schools stays in the textbooks, the globes and the maps. If the subject has to appeal to children it is necessary that you pull geography out of the textbook and bring it into the lives of your students. Here are some activities that show you how you can achieve this.
Fulfilling Gandhi’s ideology
Arun Elassery
Apart from fighting for India’s independence, one of Gandhi’s pet projects was Nai Taleem–a new way of looking at education. This time Alternatiview features Anand Niketan, a school started by Gandhi himself in 1940. Although it was shut down in 1975, Anand Niketan was reopened in 2005 and has been functioning successfully since then carrying on with Gandhi’s idea of learning through craft.
Finding creative solutions to a challenging problem
Neeraja Raghavan
Do you have a very brilliant but quite restless child in your classroom? If yes then you should join this staffroom discussion with fellow teachers to arrive at a solution.
With love and care
Radhika Mitter
‘Special children’ are often considered difficult and a burden. But treat them with love and care and see how much you can teach each other.
The ABC – anew
Mihika Mirchandani
A fresh look at the ABCs.
Laugh out loud… with affection
Rohan D’Souza
Which of us doesn’t like a laugh now and then. And children, with fewer tensions and problems, laugh unabashedly. When we all enjoy a little humour, is it worth looking at how we can make use of our ‘funny bones’ in pedagogy? Also how important is it to inculcate in children the ability to laugh at themselves and others without denigrating them?
Generating humour in the classroom
Kamakshi Balasubramanian
When one talks about using humour in the classroom, the onus of being the source of humour automatically falls on the teacher. But what if we tell you that this needn’t always be the case? You can facilitate the generation of humour in the classroom, which will come collectively from the children. Read on to find out how.
Adding fun to learning
S Upendran
Laughter is never far away from any classroom whether it is between just the children or the teacher and the children. Funny moments during the course of a class definitely add to the learning moment. This teacher shares some such moments from his classroom.
Chase those fears with the funnies!
Pooja Keshavan Singh
Learning becomes easy when students begin to trust their teachers and lose their fears of certain subjects. And what better way is there for them to learn to trust you and enjoy what they are learning, than to share with them a joke or two?