Lalitha Krishnamurthy
A first-hand account of a teacher’s experience in a school in Uganda.
Year: 2014
Learning with bricks
V Udaya Bhanu
Here is a simple yet mult-idimensional activity for the primary classes. This exercise helps concretise concepts in math and language.
Dealing with learning problems
Nagalakshmi Balakrishnan
A conversation with an occupational therapist whose focus is on children in mainstream schools who have behavioural problems . Setting up support systems for these children and interacting with parents, teachers and the children themselves is part of her well thought out strategy. Read on to know more.
A matter of faith and friendship
Chintan Girish Modi
In the last of the series on 5th Space Projects, this article explores the work of SAHER, an organisation in Mumbai working on peacebuilding between communities. Peacebuilding involves changing attitudes, beliefs and behaviours and moving towards non-violent and creative responses to conflict. Read up this interesting piece to get an idea on how SAHER started.
Go slow, life ahead
strong>Aditi Mathur and Ratnesh Mathur
This article explores the concept of going slow, stopping every now and then to enjoy life and happiness. It is not about going slow per se, but about looking at education, learning and growth differently. Go slow is an alternative to the rat race, it is a together journey of life.
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.
A dream comes true
Anish Nair One Saturday afternoon, two years ago, my colleague Prachur Goel and I discussed the idea of a larger impact on the people around us. We were teachers in a low-income private school in Kamraj Nagar, a slum community Read More …
The world outside
Nikunj Beria The ‘Be The Change Project’ (BTCP) is an additional project that every Teach for India Fellow takes on in the second year of the Fellowship. In this project, the Fellows focus on the problems that affect their school Read More …
Learning by doing
Sinny Mole I started my career in a school that had conventional classrooms where we had to teach using chalk and blackboard. The blackboards turned green over time. Soon, I witnessed the smart board era – a wonderful transformation. But Read More …
A rewarding experience
Ambika Parchure Looking back at my 27 years as an educator… much has gone into shaping the person I am today… a life-long learner. My longest tenure of service in education was in two institutions: Rishi Valley School (14 yrs), Read More …