Shilpa D
A teacher is more than just a teacher. She has to wear so many different hats and play the role of the counsellor, the lawyer, the comedian and so many more.
Category: Notes from a Teacher’s Diary
Cooking up a fragrance
Vanisha Gupta, Umang Sultania, Gouri Naik, and Anamika Sharma
This teacher found a fragrant route to generate and further her students’ interest in chemistry. Students at an education institute extracted and studied natural products that gave different plants their aromatic smell.
Frayed bonds: The erosion of sacred bonds in teacher-student relationships in modern education
Ramjee Nagarajan
Once upon a time the guru-shishya bond was sacred and revered. Today you find students abusing teachers and sadly we even hear of teachers abusing students. Whatever happened to that ‘once upon a time’ beautiful relationship?
Who is the ideal teacher?
Prabhu S
We always have a lot of expectations from our students. Have we ever asked them what they expect from us?
Books and us
Nimesh Ved and Anshumalika Rai
In this article, the third and final in the series, the authors move beyond the rooms and walls. They look at themselves.
The book that changed my views on education
Prabhu S
A teacher writes about the impact that a book had on his life.
Is my size and your size the same?
Ranjeeta Prajapati
When we know that one size does not fit all, why do we use standardized lesson plans? When every child learns differently, our lesson plans should also be such that they cater to each child’s needs.
Understanding the enigma of dyslexia
Kalpana Sharma
While most of us may have a surface level understanding of learning disabilities like dyslexia, not many of us stop to think of what life is actually like for a dyslexic child in school. What can schools do to support these differently-abled children?
A socially responsible teacher
S Prabhu
Is a teacher’s job only to teacher his/her subject? What are a teacher’s other responsibilities?
A little appreciation does wonders
Ranjeeta Prajapati
Is it enough if we praise a student? Or we need to take care while praising as well? A teacher shares her experience.