Author: shalini

‘Discipline’ – the need of the hour

Discipline is an important aspect of education. Unless a child is disciplined gathering and assimilating knowledge is difficult. And this is not something that the school alone can achieve. The family plays a very important role in inculcating discipline in a child.

Tracking the transient student

Student mobility is a problem that every school is familiar with. While you can’t stop this from happening there are ways to deal with transient students. This principal writes to tell how you can make student transfers smooth for both you and the student.

An idea that may have been…

Gandhi’s ideas of education are well known and appreciated but not many put them to practice. Here is a school in Udaipur that is successfully practicising the Nai Taleem philosophy.

Collaborative online research experiment

At different points of time a teacher is called upon to do things other than just teach her subject. She often has to play the roles of a mediator, counsellor, confidante, etc., for her students. This writer invites all teachers to share and document their knowledge in playing these different roles so that we can all teach and learn from each other the art of being a complete teacher?

Teachers’ Day Special

Our request to teachers to share with Teacher Plus their first day experiences as a teacher led some of them to go one step further and ponder over the question why they entered the teaching profession at all. Here are some responses.

TEACHERS’ DAY SPECIAL

First day jitters and joys As we began planning for our September issue, we were all sure that it had to be special just like our previous issues. What could be better than asking teachers to go down memory lane Read More …

FAQs on the RtE

The Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009 was passed by the Parliament in August 2009, and after receiving Presidential assent immediately thereafter, it was notified for implementation from April 1, 2010. The 86th amendment that provides the children Read More …

From all of us to each of them

Sometimes wisdom comes from the most casual and incidental of conversations. Discussing a vision statement made by an educational institution, a gentleman I recently met remarked that he had insisted that the word “all” be changed to “each” in the Read More …

Recession – the cause and the effect

Are your students unenthusiastic about their economics classes? Do you feel you are losing their attention too often? This article, using the topic of recession, gives you tips to engage your students and make you economics classes interactive.