Vandana Aggarwal
Teaching children about governance and civic responsibility normally tends to be a passive affair as students in urban schools have few opportunities to face real-life situations. This article , however, suggests a role -playing exercise to enlighten children about how a Gram Panchayat functions.
S Indumathi
A hands-on lesson and an experiment to check how earthworms thrive taught children many things. Read all about it in this article.
“Did you understand?”, is the most asked question in classrooms and the answer is always a “yes”. Often we are satisfied with this answer and move on.
Jyotsna Vijapurkar
But if we probe a little more we realize that in most cases children haven’t really understood what we are telling them. So how do we actually find out whether children understood? Here are a few ways.
AJ Mithra
Should EVS be taught only by Science teachers? This article explains how EVS is a life-oriented subject and any teacher—– maths or economics or language, can teach this subject .
Maja Larsson
Read about how a teacher and her students together planned and shaped a course in the Arts and how every student identified a completely individual project for each of themselves. All this in a school in Sweden!
S Suresh
Numismatics as a subject is hardly taught in primary and high school classes. Many school teachers do not know about the subject and its potential. At least at the school level, numismatics need not be taught as a separate subject but can be skillfully utilized for teaching several other subjects such as history, economics, art and chemistry.
Rohini Oomman
Lately there has been a lot of fervour surrounding the Lokpal Bill. Anna Hazare and his team have come up with an alternative Jan Lokpal Bill. The media is bringing in experts to discuss, debate and write on this issue. Why not use this opportunity to get your own students to think, voice and debate the Lokpal Bill in the classroom?
Ratna Rao
Did you know that songs can be used to teach English? From reading, writing to grammar and vocabulary, English teaching and learning can be made easy using songs. Read up to find out about this effective teaching tool.
Anna Neena George
Developing the spirit of inquiry–that is the primary goal of teaching science. However, mundane methods of teaching this subject don’t pay much heed to this objective. Science is an exciting and living subject, and should be taught accordingly. Find in this article, examples of how specific topics in science can be taught in an interactive and exciting manner.
Of all the subjects there are, math is perhaps the most logical and practical of them all. Yet it doesn’t find favour with many students because they fear it. In this article, the author who is a math teacher, suggests some remedial activities that a teacher can take up in her class to nip that fear of math in its bud.