Kamakshi Balasubramanian
Continuing her conversation on how we learn, the author makes us aware of the different ways we gather our knowledge.
Year: 2018
What would you like to do today?
Arun Elassery
Anand Niketan Democratic School is a unique experiment in education. This is a school without classrooms. Children decide what they want to learn and how. The teachers are there only as facilitators.
Health & Healing
Shruti Singhal
Staying healthy, eating healthy, looking healthy. This is the current popular mantra. So what better time to teach children healthy habits and practices while helping them gain more knowledge about health and wellbeing?
The change agent
Ankita Rajasekharan and Zakeeya Zahra Abbas
How many of us are likely to believe that a group of orphans, uninitiated in the ways of the world, can be integrated smoothly in an IB school? Asma Zaidi, an educationist and Montessori trainer, did and started the Focus Bridge School to take on this challenge.
When questions turn into answers
Shree Singh Kuriyal
Kinzom Khampa is a petite and spirited teacher who weaned her students away from passive inaction to active participation in class. This is her story.
The story weavers
Manaswini Sridhar
Creative writing classes can sometimes turn out to be very boring. How can we make creative writing fun and exciting for the students? Here is a resource that gives you interesting assignment ideas to help children along in their creative writing.
Don’t always go by the book!
Nimesh Ved
The textbook is still the ultimate authority for some teachers and students. When there is so much of trust placed upon the textbook you’d believe them to be error-free and passing on the right knowledge. But with some textbooks that doesn’t seem to be the case. It is important that we debate and discuss how textbooks are written and how we can improve them.
Gearing up to teach
Gowri Iyer
You are said to be a good teacher if you are also a good learner. Here are seven techniques that will help you become good learners and therefore good teachers.
“What good is trigonometry in my life?”
Jyoti Thyagarajan
Trigonometry need’nt be as scary as it sounds. If you know the right directions to point them to, children understand how trigonometry is useful in their lives.
Letting children think things through for themselves
Neeraja Raghavan
Are we spoon-feeding and spoiling our children by giving them all the answers? The next time a student asks us a question, let us not jump up to give them the answer, instead let us encourage them to find the answer for themselves.