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April 2009, Notes from a Teacher's Diary »

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Shakuntala Jaisinghania
Traditional teaching methods are based on the assumption that effective learning is a matter of conditioned response or ‘conditioning’; failure to respond to a question correctly is punished and successful responses are rewarded.

July 2008, Notes from a Teacher's Diary »

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Radhika Shinde Vakharia
I have failed to understand how in a span of 35 minutes of interaction, one can be a good teacher…

June 2008, Notes from a Teacher's Diary »

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Manaswini Sridhar
This is what a lot of young adults had to say at the end of a four month course in business communication and soft skills.

May 2008, Notes from a Teacher's Diary »

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Shakuntala Jaisinghani
Kanika was a brilliant student, with a bright future ahead of her. She passed her secondary exam, topping the merit list of the State Board.

March 2008, Notes from a Teacher's Diary »

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Roselin Anthony
Every year as the school season begins, my search for a child who can help me better myself also begins.

March 2010, Notes from a Teacher's Diary »

[17 Mar 2010 | 2 Comments | ]

Zenobia N Lakdawalla
What would you do if you caught a student cheating? Read to see what this teacher did.

February 2010, Notes from a Teacher's Diary »

[8 Feb 2010 | 2 Comments | ]

Kamakshi Balasubramanian
Theory of Knowledge is course that all IB Diploma students have to study. This teacher shares her experience of teaching the subject.

Notes from a Teacher's Diary, October 2009 »

[5 Oct 2009 | One Comment | ]

Rukmini Banerji
It is amazing to see how children find joy in the most simple things. Here is an interesting experience of this teacher with a bunch of kids in a small school in a village in Bihar.

March 2009, Notes from a Teacher's Diary »

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Monica Kochar

A child for us is usually ‘good in my subject’ or ‘bad in my subject’. We fail to see that this is only one facet of the multi personality that the person is.

Notes from a Teacher's Diary, September 2009 »

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by Ramesh P V S
Life teaches us several things that we cannot learn in classrooms. This writer writes about an incident in his life and what he learnt from it.