From the workshop to the classroom

Manaswini Sridhar

Workshops are an integral part of a teacher’s life. Yet it is not often that one sees teachers implementing what they learn in a workshop in their classrooms. Here’s how you can motivate your teachers to experiment more in their classrooms.

Is your child school-ready?

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What are the life-skills that pre-primary children need to be equipped with? How can a parent prepare a child so that it is ready to face a school environment?

A space to unwind

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Staff rooms in most schools need to be given attention on a priority basis. Teachers are the pillars of any school and the torchbearers of the next generation. They need to be given quality time between their rush to different classes. For this, a staff room that is comfortable and airy, with enough chairs and cupboards and a friendly atmosphere is a must.

Late again? What’s the excuse?

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Keeping a check on children is a major part of a teacher’s work. But a growing trend and one that is becoming a tad difficult to deal with is to handle deliberate latecomers. This article highlights a few ways in which a teacher can handle a perpetual latecomer.

Smile, it costs nothing!

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As teachers we often complain of having to face expresionless, bored and distracted students everyday. Have we ever wondered why? Perhaps similing a little more in class will make teaching-learning a pleasant experience.

When a parent is also the teacher

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There are several issues that come up when a child and the parent attend the same school, the former as a student and the latter as a teacher. Awkward situations need to be handled with maturity so that both the teacher-parent and the student-child are not affected. Here are some ground rules which schools can use as a general framework so that the child, the teacher and the parent-teacher cooperate for the good of all.

When there is a guest lecture

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Most schools host ‘guest lectures’ for high school students to help them gain an insight into something outside the textbook world. Here are some tips on how schools can go about organising these lectures so that at the end of it, everyone comes away feeling good, right from the school to the teachers to the students and of course the guest speaker too.

Sick of school?

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Does your child fall sick regularly? Does he/she miss many days at school? What do you do? How do you make it easy for your child to tide over the frequent breaks? Manaswini Sridhar gives you the prescription.

Penning that thought!

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Getting children to pen their thoughts is a daunting task. But the process of writing can be made both creative and entertaining. Here are a few tips on how this can be done.

Teachers in training

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Participating in workshops is as much a part of teachers’ lives as teaching is. This article gives you a few tips on how you should conduct yourself at workshops so as to ensure maximum benefit as a participant.