Exploring calendar art in the Indian classroom

Sarada Natarajan
We have all had them growing up and perhaps even now as adults, adorning our walls. Funny posters, posters that inspire us, or posters simply to decorate our walls–they are found everywhere from banks to government offices to the classroom. So when they are present everywhere why not use them as a teaching-learning tool?

Photoplay: A medium of the mind

Subha Das Mollick
Watching movies is fun and when things are fun learning becomes easy. Here is how you can use movies as a teaching-learning tool.

Balancing weights

Yasmin Jayathirtha
Continuing from where she left off in the November issue of Teacher Plus, the author further explores the idea of building our own insturments to learn concepts in science. This time she looks at the old style weighing scale (takdi), which has by and large been replaced by the top pan balance.

Introspection and reflection: What’s education about?

Mounik Shankar Lahiri
The school of tomorrow, an event organized by iDiscoveri explores what quality education is and how schools can achieve it while discussing the present and future of conventional schools in India.

Humour in the classroom

Everybody enjoys a good laugh and kids are no different. Here’s how you can use humour as a teaching aid.

Teachers in training

Manaswini Sridhar
Participating in workshops is as much a part of teachers’ lives as teaching is. This article gives you a few tips on how you should conduct yourself at workshops so as to ensure maximum benefit as a participant.

Ways of naming: folk taxonomy

Geetha Iyer
We often find ourselves categorizing, sorting, listing and group things to help us understand them better and this process is called folk taxnomy. This particular article discusses three very common trees that are confused one for the other because they are all either called Wood apple or elephant apple trees.

Getting kids into the flow

Steven Paul Rudolph
Learning comes naturally to children and every child is good at it, therefore we don’t have to dangle rewards in front of them or threaten them with punishment. All that we as parents need to do is to seek out teachers and experiences that will enthuse our children to learn.

The joy of giving

Cynthia D’Costa
This is the story of Sayali Dubash, a young mother, who took it upon herself to build a small computer lab for a Zilla Parishad Girls school near her home.

A teacher’s “democratic” duty!

S Upendran
In this time’s Words Unlimited, the author recollects his amusing experience as a presiding officer for the general elections of 2004.