How can you make playgrounds safe for play? What skills do playgrounds encourage? What are the things a physical education teacher should keep in mind when on a playground? Find the answers here.
Author: shalini
Classroom design – a psychological approach
Using a psychological approach while designing a classroom can help make a given space more conducive to learning. Find out how.
Learning to learn together
Collaborative learning is a popular teaching-learning methodology. See how this teacher used this method to inculcate excitement and a desire to study in her class.
What should your school look like?
If you were given a chance to build a school, what would it look like? We asked a few children, who had some pretty interesting ideas.
Learning to really see
What is spatial intelligence? The activities in this article give a whole new meaning to the way you look at space.
Let’s build a school
Most school buildings in India remind one either of a hospital or a prison, both places of surveillance and authority. Schools though should be welcoming places where children can freely explore knowledge. The Centre for Vernacular Architecture is changing the way schools are being built
Honouring the guru
All of us recognize the importance and influence of teachers in our lives but have we done anything to show our appreciation to our teachers? Teachers’ Academy organizes the Inspiring Teachers Awards every year as a platform for students to thank their teachers. Teacher Plus reports.
Understanding the larger context
While we are all tied up with our own classrooms, textbooks and schools, it is important now and then to step back and look at the changes taking place in the field we are working in. Are these changes for our benefit? Who are these changemakers? Are they going in the right direction? Questions like these keep us alert and ready to embrace or confront the change taking place.
Let’s make time for art
With increasing pressure on schools and children to perfom well in competitive exams, no school seems to have time to even inculcate appreciate for the performing arts. We need to realize that a lot of learning can happen through the arts as well. Read to find out why you need to introduce the arts in your school or if you already have created some time for it how best you can utilize it.
Feeling the RtE ‘bite’
So far a majority of our articles on the RtE debate have featured the alternative school stand, this times article looks at the debate from the other side. Padma Sarangapani responds to some of the issues raised by the alternative school network.