Geetha Durairajan
What is CCE all about and how can a teacher evaluate a student under CCE? This article highlights some games that the teacher can get her students to play and by observation, take down notes which she can later use for evaluation. One such game is explained in the article. Read on to know more.
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Celebrating sports
Sharda Ugra
Here’s an interesting article asking parents to celebrate if their children choose sports as their career.
Building a sports curriculum
Nidhi Tiwari Rajesh, a tough looking 38-year-old physical education (PE) teacher, stands firm and tries to extend his gaze across the dusty playground on a sunny morning in an upwardly mobile school in West Delhi. A class of 40 students Read More …
All work and no play?
What prevents us from wanting to excel in sports? Mounik Shankar Lahiri “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve Read More …
Fun, fitness and inspiration
Santhosh Padmanabhan
Why is physical education not seen as a priority area by most school managements? Why is it viewed as a luxury and a wasteful exercise that does not add value to a child’s mental development? A schooling system that sees sports and physical activity as an integral part of the classroom and the life of its students and staff creates a healthy community that learns joyfully. Our cover theme this time explores the idea of how the pursuit of sport can impart some of the greatest life lessons that there are to learn and calls for integrating sports into the curriculum.
Uncovering a theme
Cover story ideas come to us in a variety of ways. This month’s cover story idea came to us in the form of a letter. Once the idea takes seed we set about nurturing it, looking at it from different angles. And while it is impossible to visit every single road leading to the issue in focus, at Teacher Plus it is our hope that we have opened up for you enough points of discussion on a particular issue.
A garden of their own
Everyone agrees that especially with young children, learning by doing is the best way to go about teaching. We have pulled out from our archives an article that introduces you to how you can get children to create their own garden and learn a lot while doing it.
Speak up!
Sheela Ramakrishnan
Silence is golden they say. Teachers take pride in ‘pin drop’ silent classes. But it is time that we woke up to the idea that sometimes noise is good and even important. Speaking a language is as important if not more than learning to write it. Here are a few suggestions on getting children to make some productive noise in class.
The Uncounted tasks of a teacher
Kanupriya Jhunjhunwala
When a person joins the teaching profession, is he/she ever given a job description? Apart from a vague mention of the responsibilities the school expects from the new teacher, there is nothing concrete said or written. Does the state have rules and guidelines about the teachers in its schools? Are there stipulated work hours for teachers? What is a teacher actually meant to do and what does he/she end up doing in the course of his/her work as a teacher?
The reality of overburdened pedagogues
Mounik Shankar Lahiri
That teachers are overworked is nothing new but in our interactions with teachers what we realized is that it is not so much the volume of work assigned to them that bothers teachers. What bothers them is the way schools assign this work. School managements take teachers for granted and believe that it is absolutely fine for them to do so. And this is where the problem lies.