Yasmin Jayathirtha
Chemical reactions are an important part of the study of chemistry. What should you observe during a chemical reaction? What are the different things that you should note? How do you derive chemical equations? Find answers to these questions in this time’s Let’s Experiment.
Year: 2018
My sad story
Subha Das Mollick
Plastic is ubiquitous and it is difficult not to use it in some form or other. But wherever we can let us try and recycle plastic and reduce toxic waste. Otherwise the plastic products we use will end up like the plastic bag in this story adding to the pollution in the environment.
What a math teacher needs to know
S Sundaram
Math is easy to teach, especially at the primary level. It is only basic arithmetic, right? Wrong. It is at this level that you need real math teachers. For it is here that the foundation for math is laid. And if the foundation is not strong, no amount of effort in the later stages will help a child fully internalize the subject.
A singular ten-year journey
Manaswini Sridhar
Variety is the spice of life and therefore when new teachers teach you every year, there are new expectations, excitements, and a much necessary freshness. And yet with a constant teacher comes a thorough understanding, a strong bond, and honest effort. The author recounts her experience of teaching one student for 10 long years.
How I learned about learning by doing
Anwar Jafar Rayma
We are all aware of the famous Chinese proverb—I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand. When working with children we understand how true this statement is. A teacher recounts his experiences of employing the ‘learning by doing’ method in his classroom.
Working from within their world
Snehal Vadher
Most cities, these days, are very much like one another. Therefore it is only when you teach in the rural areas, the hills and places faraway that you realize the mismatch between what students study in school and what they need to know to survive in their environment. This is when you realize the importance of indigenous knowledge and why it should be a part of what we are teaching children.
How safe are our children in school?
Vimala Nandakumar
Of late, schools have been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Somewhere the roof of a school has caved in and children have died. In another school one child has killed another. There is a teacher who is sexually abusing a student. A fire breaks out in a school. How long should we wait for schools to be in the news for all the right reasons?
I believe, therefore I am…or not!
Neeraja Raghavan
There are exceptionally brilliant students and there are those who believe that they are not good at anything. Why are there these different kinds of students? What leads them to believe what they are? Can we, as adults, make the students who say ‘I cannot…’ say ‘I can…’?
Limits of law and gaps in guidelines
Mehak Siddiqui
It appears that everybody is concerned about school safety. Governments have put laws in place, schools are taking measures to ensure the safety of the child. And yet the dangers to children while at school are only growing. Ensuring safety in schools is a continuous process that also requires sensitive, sensible and concerned people in authoritative positions to continually monitor the system.
Safe, not straight
Chintan Girish Modi
In all the talk about safety in schools, there is one thing that gets little or no mention. How safe do children who identify with alternative sexual identities feel? Are our schools understanding and accommodative of these children? What can we do to make these children feel at ‘home’ in school?