Divya Choudary
Teacher Plus is 25 years old and the magazine organized a small programme for teachers in the city of Hyderabad. A report of the event.
Year: 2014
Potters par excellence
Geetha Iyer
In most humans wasps generate the kind of fear that honey bees bring. But did you know that not all wasps sting? Observing the different kinds of wasps visiting your home and your garden can be quite an enriching experience.
Think like Holmes
Every child is born curious. They say when a child joins school, he/she loses that curiosity. Let us not kill curiosity but encourage scientific thinking among children. Here are a few steps on how you can do that.
Making learning joyous
Pradita Nambiar
A teacher who is used to teaching teenagers suddenly finds herself handling a bunch of 3 and 4 year olds. The author shares her anxious and then exciting and hopeful moments.
Setting yourself up
Monica Kochar
How can you teach sets and venn diagrams without defining these terms until the children have understood the concepts? Here’s how.
A fair evaluation
Shriya Ravishankar
Peer evaluation seems like an easy enough thing to do. But when you take an online course at the end of which you are asked to evaluate your peers and award them marks it suddenly becomes difficult. The author shares here how she learnt to be fair in her evaluations.
Drink the coffee while it’s hot
A carefully laid out plan may have its advantages and could propel teachers to complete what they had outlined with a sense of satisfaction, but come to think of it, are teachers missing out on experiencing the magic of certain moments in the classroom? Slight deviations in the classroom, prompted by children’s questions and doubts, will serve to help the teacher in putting aside the well laid out plan and go with the children. The outcomes may turn out to be better than the initial expectations.
A lesson in self-assessment
Asutosh
A parent joins a school, not as an adult but as a child, to learn how assessment happens and how children face their strengths and weaknesses. At the end of it, he learns that the novel practice of assessment stays with him for life and not just in school.
Threads and fingers to measure
Anuradha
Here is an interesting and fun account of how both the facilitator and children learn about measurement, mostly using threads and fingers.
Free and unbounded
Girija
When a project is given to children, teachers tend to ask children to follow a given path, which makes the entire learning process rather drab. How about asking children to choose what and how they wish to work on a particular project? This article is a must read in that it explains how children enjoyed working on the project that they chose.