Anil Kumar Patnaik
A subject becomes interesting or boring according to how a teacher presents it to his/her students. A reason that math is often considered uninteresting is because of the uninspired ways used to teach it. Add a little magic and see how quickly you can change your students’ perception about math.
Year: 2020
Auto teacher
Aditi Kumari
With learning moving out of the classroom and onto computer screens, teachers have had to become more innovative, enterprising and adventurous in order to take their classes – like sitting in an autorickshaw, for instance.
How to teach critical thinking
Chintan Girish Modi
We all like our classrooms to be peaceful, quiet and harmonious. As far as possible, we discourage dissent, disagreement and arguements especially related to the lessons they are learning. But then, are we training our students for life? By being passive and obedient listeners in class, are we crushing their spirit of enquiry? Let us give our students a voice in the classroom today, so that they can speak loud and clear when they need to in life tomorrow.
Class beyond rooms: connecting is the new constructing
Chandani Goyal and Ashima Thirwani
2020 not only marked the onset of a new decade, but also refreshed the ways in which we teach and learn. Amidst all the changes, one thing is clear, it is necessary to refine our remote learning practices to engage the students, no matter the distance.
We imagine, therefore, we invent
Usha Raman
With the dark clouds of Covid 19 still hanging over us, life seems to have come to a full stop. Each day brings with it several demands and expectations and people cope in the only way they know – by taking things one at a time. Even so, our thoughts never seem to leave us, and we try and plan for a future that we cannot see. In all this however, there are opportunities to rethink and reimagine, and schooling and education top the list. Teachers’ Day is just that opportunity for teachers to acknowledge and celebrate their own small victories.
Post-coronavirus times, education and the Ship of Theseus
Rammohan Khanapurkar
In the education space, what will be the ‘new normal’? Can there be a more humane curriculum? The coronavirus did not give a fig to human-made nation-state boundaries. Education can build upon this newfound solidarity, community sharing and global unity. Can this lead in some ways and encourage youngsters to not see different communities as ‘us’ versus ‘them’?
Things change
Kamakshi Balasubramanian
Schooled entirely at home and in a rural haven without any disruption to their lives because of the pandemic, two children decide to demonstrate what they had learnt – question custom and habit, question authority. In short, during extraordinary times, did the children want a new kind of schooling?
A learn-force raring to do
Ratnesh Mathur and Aditi Mathur
Can Covid 19 change education forever? Did children suffer any loss of learning during the lockdown? On the contrary, things were never so good. The pandemic can actually be viewed as a huge opportunity to empower learners. This article goes all out to share some wonderful ideas.
Tenth Grade, 2025: Just another day
Mehak Siddiqui
This is a futuristic fiction piece, set a couple of years from now. It is told from a student’s point of view and gives an insight into how the school system has changed since the pandemic and why. It has a bit of humor and science fiction.
Paidos. Agogos. Educatum.
Sharoon Sunny
What can happen if a student, bored about his online classes, decides to recreate his class combining math, science and English? The result – he kick-starts a new type of learning initiative among his peers – hands-on projects. Read on for this fascinating insight into post-Covid times.