Month: March 2024

Showing that you care

Aruna Sankaranarayanan
Don’t you feel the world will be a much better place with just a little more compassion in it? With human beings becoming insensitive, intolerable, and unacceptable of the other, it has become imperative for schools to teach compassion to students. A simple way of doing this is for teachers to exhibit compassion in their classrooms.

Ambition

Ramya Sriram
As children we want to do many things when we grow up. But as a grown-up we have to choose to do only one of those many things, why? Is it not possible to be all that we wanted to be when we were children?

It’s time for a math teaching revolution

Sweety Rastogi
Math should enhance a student’s ability to think out-of-the-box, find new connections, and create new paths. However, the way we teach math today is only to help the student pass the exam. The actual objective of learning math is not achieved. It is time that we revolutionize math teaching and encourage curiosity and the ability to think differently.

Ada Lovelace: STEM pioneer

Mamata Pandya
“Charles Babbage is the father of the computer”, this is one of the first things that children are taught when the subject is introduced in school. While Babbage conceived the Analytical Engine, it was the notes, explaining the workings of the machine, by another mathematical genius that inspired Alan Turing to work on the first modern computer. This genius was one of the pioneers of computer science and she was a woman: Ada Lovelace.

Gamification in learning

Kishor Nikhare

If you have observed children play, you will notice that they have a lot of fun even as they gain many life skills such as working together as a team, problem-solving, etc. Why don’t we try using games to teach them math and English too?

Exploring the psychology of emotions

Setu Havanur and Spatica Ramanujam
Human emotions are fascinating, complex, and confusing; they are not static but alive. How can we then teach something that is so animate by asking students to simply read about emotions from a textbook? Help your students understand emotions better using the performing arts.

Annual day: a platform for leadership development

Shalini Solanki
Songs, dance, drama, musical performances — school annual days are platforms for students to showcase their talent. But is that all there is to an annual day? School annual days are also events where several other life skills including leadership skills can be developed.

From a quiet to an active space

Madhuri Anand
Silent libraries are slowing fading away and their place is being taken up by new-age libraries that are active learning spaces. See how a library educator transformed the library in her school by including games in the library to promote reading.

Parent-teacher meeting – a student’s nightmare!

Anuradha C
Students dread them, parents treat them as school or teacher appraisal forums, and for the teachers they are a chore. So how can we make the parent-teacher meet productive for all stakeholders?