Usha Chandrasekaran
Despite several years in the field of education, this author tells us how she learnt the importance of building relationships with the parents of your students when she met with her son’s professor.
Category: Last Word
Impressions of a teacher
Shakuntala Jaisinghani
A light article on how teachers and students influence each other and the extent to which teachers can go to motivate their students to learn.
Yes, Principal!
Bubla Basu
A fun yet informative poem on what happens when you have top heavy administrations in schools.
“Misses” can make mistakes too
Megha Radhakrishnan
Have you ever come across teachers who deliberately make mistakes, all with the intention of telling children that is OK to make mistakes and learn from them? Here is an interesting article that talks about how two teachers came up with this idea and succeeded in driving home their message.
The golden PTM
Neerja Singh
A parent – teacher meeting is always approached with a feeling of apprehension both by the teacher and the parent with the child caught in between. There is criticism and finger -pointing from both sides with little or no room for compromise. What then is the golden rule? Read on to find out.
A fair evaluation
Shriya Ravishankar
Peer evaluation seems like an easy enough thing to do. But when you take an online course at the end of which you are asked to evaluate your peers and award them marks it suddenly becomes difficult. The author shares here how she learnt to be fair in her evaluations.
The power of peer learning
Chintan Girish Modi In the first half of June 2014, I was invited by Snow Leopard Adventures and Ananta Aspen Centre to co-facilitate a programme called Planet Harmony in Rishikesh with a group of 32 high school students from Delhi, Read More …
Celebrating sports
Sharda Ugra
Here’s an interesting article asking parents to celebrate if their children choose sports as their career.
‘Shaping our personality’
Shriya Ravishankar
A student sharing her experience of working on the school magazine.
She chose to take a leap of faith
Ritika Chawla
A heart-warming story of one woman’s effort to practice what she learnt— to bring about change in the lives of people around her.