Amit Kumar Uppal
Listening is an important skill that is often overlooked in schools. In our effort to teach them to read and write we forget to teach them to listen.
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The joy of listening
Sai Praveen Maddirala
Listening is an important skill that is often overlooked in schools. In our effort to teach them to read and write we forget to teach them to listen.
Breaking away from technology
Manaswini Sridhar
There is so much talk about technology and its foray into education and how teachers have no choice but to embrace this change in their lives. While this is true, it is also true that several many teachers don’t have any access to technology. In such cases what are the resources that teachers can rely upon?
Life as a laboratory
Ananya Pathak
Why do the social sciences lag behind in popularity among its learners? Because its teachers don’t bring in inspiring methods to teach. No other subject is closer to life than social science. So get out of the classroom and onto the streets when you teach the subject.
FEEDFORWARD an identity
Latha Vydianathan
Feedback we all have heard of but feedforward? Feedback is given based on an action already completed. Feedforward is given while the action is in progress thus allowing the person doing the action to make changes accordingly to improve the action.
Connections that span lifetimes
Usha Raman
A student-teacher relationship is special unlike any other. The influence, inspiration and learnings that a student receives from the teacher forms the essense of this relationship. It is this deep connection that makes a student go up to wish a teacher/help her even several many years later and it is this connection that gives the teacher a pleasure that is unique only to her.
The everyday business of being a citizen
Sonal Iyer and Neha Yadav
Every job requires you to undergo some kind of training to acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to do the job well. Being responsible citizens of our country is also a job and a job that we have to do well. Therefore it is necessary that we train our children in the area of being good citizens of this country.
A commitment to good governance
Swapni Shah
To sustain a democracy, its citizens need to have a certain skillset, attitude, knowledge and vaule. The best way to inculcate these is to let children confront real-life problems and learn in the process of finding solutions.
Building better communities
Pranali Sisodiya
If our citizens have to be active participants in a democracy, we have to train them from a young age. Kumar NIRMAN is a programme that involves children in engaging with real problems faced by people and working together to find solutions.
Sowing the seeds of citizenship
Navjot Kohli, Meghana Desai, Deboshree Bhatacharjee
It is all very well to talk about democratic classrooms and child-friendly pedagogy, but how can teachers implement these ideas in their classrooms? In order to help our children transform into democratic citizens, our teachers must first be trained to teach accordingly. The Shantilal Muttha Foundation with its Mulyavardhan project and teaching aids aims to do precisely that.