A new face for textbooks

Steven Rudolph

In a lot of cases in India, textbooks are the only source of learning. Shouldn’t they then be attractive, meaningful and fun rather then dull, uninspiring, and boring? Some tips on how to make the textbook look and read better.

A natural born teacher

Steven Rudolph

This article takes us through a live example of how a Multiple Intelligence test helped a person to choose a profession that best catered to his personality traits.

Lessons I learnt

Steven Rudolph

Twenty five years of teaching will obviously teach you a thing or two about the profession. The author lists down a few lessons he learnt in all these years as a teacher.

The monkey behind CCE

Adrian Tennant

Continuous and comprehensive evaluation has received a lot of criticism from different quarters of the educational arena including the teachers who practice it. But a system that gives every student a chance to show what he/she can do rather than can’t has to be good. So what we really need is to provide teachers with a lot of support, besides developing tools and frameworks that fit the textbooks, to ensure that CCE is properly implemented.

The new game of life

Steven Rudolph
Read this interesting article on how a board game based on the Indian concept of ‘Purusharth’ can teach children to play the game of life.

‘Team’ up to empower your school

Steven Rudolph

Have you noticed that some teachers in your school are over worked and that that is hampering their teaching and other skills? In school, work should be shared equally by all teachers. Read on to find out how making small teams of likeminded teachers helped empower both the teachers and the school.

Forging their own paths

Steven Rudolph

What happens when students are given a chance to do as they please without supervision and minus the rigours of a daily schedule? Result: their faces are relaxed , there is a sense of calmness and an ease in their body language. Read all about this experiment at Jiva Institute.

Teachers get a taste of freedom

Steven Rudolph

What do teachers do when they are given an entire working day to work at their own pace and are not required to adhere to any rigid schedule? Will they work productively or will they use the time to ‘catch up’ on other work? This experiment at the Jiva Institute threw up some interesting insights.

Let my teachers awake

Steven Rudolph

Here the author picks up from where he left off in the last article and talks about how he got his teachers excited to try out an “open day” in school– a day when teachers could plan and organize their time the way they want to with little inteference from the administration. If this experiment works with the teachers, the author plans to allow students in his school to chalk out their own schedules instead of following a pre determined time table. Wait and watch as to how the teachers’ open day turned out.

What a modern curriculum really looks like

Steven Rudolph

This article aims to clarify that in all the din about educational reforms, one must spare a thought to how the curriculum must change to suit the needs of a knowledge- based society.