This parent has chosen not to send his daughter to school. As this father calls it, he ‘unschools’ 8 year old Kanku. Read this very different perspective on the RtE.
Author: shalini
RTE Act – Issues in implementation
Indian education is slowly coming to terms with the RtE even as the debates continue. Adjustments and compromises are being made both by the government and the various stakeholders. The ongoing RtE debate in Teacher Plus.
Elucidating Electrochemistry
Using the concept of Small Scale Chemistry detailed in the last issue of Teacher Plus, here is how you can experience concepts in electrochemistry.
Bamboo, the wonder grass
Unveil the miracle of bamboo by undertaking this project with your students. See how bamboo weaves English, history, culture and sport.
Seating solutions
The row wise arrangement of benches and desks may be convenient in most Indian classrooms but this is not a very inspiring seating arrangement. Here’s how you can shake away the boredom and reinvent your classroom despite the small space.
CCE – Is it testing time for teachers?
It has been quite some time since the CBSE asked all its schools to use CCE as the assessment tool but the confusion about the method is yet to settle down. Here’s another attempt in trying to clear the air a bit.
Not so testing times!
The Cambridge Young Learners English (YLE) Starters Programme is the latest of the standardized tests. Unlike the GRE or IELTS, the YLE targets young children. Read this language trainer’s experience of training 6-8 year olds for the programme.
Setting and meeting learning standards
Standardized tests like IIT-JEE and TOEFL are part of every student’s life these days and if their school education has achieved what it ought to have students take these tests in their stride. But for most children that is not the case and they end up depending on quick outside help like short-term coaching classes to get through such tests. So is there a solution? We look at a couple, in our cover story this time.
In loco parentis
As teachers we are responsible for several children and while we may consider that our only responsibility is to teach them lessons from the syllabus we don’t realize that there are several other lessons that we can teach them by being responsible adults.
Forum
Treating children with dignity I would like to thank Zenobia N. Lakdawalla for sharing her experience in ‘We learn from mistakes’ (Notes from a teacher’s diary, March 2010). In her situation, it would have been easy to do the usual Read More …