Geetha Durairajan
What is CCE all about and how can a teacher evaluate a student under CCE? This article highlights some games that the teacher can get her students to play and by observation, take down notes which she can later use for evaluation. One such game is explained in the article. Read on to know more.
Category: Touchstone
Street vendors and supermarkets
Geetha Durairajan
Have we lost faith in humanity? Or are we becoming slaves to an haute culture? Why else do you think we always bargain with a roadside vendor but don’t mind paying twice the amount for the same product in a supermarket?
Seesaws and the fulcrums
Geetha Durairajan
Children are full of ideas and they love to experiment. If we use their enthusiasm and experiences to teach them, learning will be a lot more natural and fun for the children.
Terrible testing times
Geetha Durairajan
Exam times are frenzied times for most students. Completing portions, memorizing answers, finishing the exam on time. These are the worries. But how different your worries are when you are not what is called ‘normal’? Four visually impaired students talk about what they fear when exams approach.
Stop the littering!
Geetha Durairajan
Why is there a lack of responsibility on the part of people when it comes to public spaces? Why cannot people understand that our roads, parks, streets all belong to us and we need to keep them clean just as we do our homes. A wake-up call by the writer to become responsible citizens.
When fingers become cars
Geetha Durairajan
Children often indulge in make-believe games. With an imagination that can transform anything into anything, children can keep themselves occupied for hours together. As they enter the adult world, this imagination or creativity takes a back seat and is not valued. Is organised schooling reponsible for killing this childish trait?
What is successful communication
Geetha Durairajan
When teachers evaluate language, they do not value the understanding that happens either in a child or an adult. Due to preconceived notions of acceptable responses, most teachers do not realise that communication can happen in different ways and that it should be valued as meaningful and successful.
Running, walking, hopping and jogging
Geetha Durairajan
Take a leaf out of this article to understand what learner-centredness really is .
Walking up the ladder of success
Geetha Durairajan
Students must set goals and motivate themselves to achieve their self-set goals, as that is the only way they can go up the success ladder. The competition should be against one’s own self, not with others. Success that comes from these efforts remains the sweetest.
Honest teaching
Geetha Durairajan
What is honest teaching? How does one explain complicated issues to a child? Can the adult who explains choose what to tell or what not to tell? The standard,according to the article,would be to explain or simplify any issue from the learner’s perspective. Read on to know more .