Making learning joyous

Pradita Nambiar

A teacher who is used to teaching teenagers suddenly finds herself handling a bunch of 3 and 4 year olds. The author shares her anxious and then exciting and hopeful moments.

“Learning” to teach

Mehak Siddiqui
An interesting first person account of a teacher’s first year in teaching and the bonds which she formed with her ‘kids’.

Do you know your students… really?

Shamim Suryavanshi
Today’s schoolgoing children all belong to the digital age. Their friends are mobile phones, computers and virtual people whom they have never met. In a sense, they are all wired differently and so think differently. However they are still children and need to be guided, understood and loved. It is up to the teacher to ‘reconnect’ to them because they do have their plus points.

Chirengi’s Silence

Rejum Potom

This teacher shares here her efforts to help a girl shunned by her classmates to be accepted by them.

A Ugandan sojourn

Lalitha Krishnamurthy
A first-hand account of a teacher’s experience in a school in Uganda.

Improvisational drama as an instructional strategy

Poonam Bhide

If you want a lively class, engaging in discussions and learning as they are working try using improvisational drama as a teaching strategy. A teacher shares her experience of using improvisational drama to teach her kids a lot more than the lesson they were doing.

Waiting for change

Chintan Girish Modi

A teacher narrates an anecdote and tells readers how a similar experience of another teacher-author helped him realize that things will take time to change. Want to know what this teacher’s experience was? Read the article to find out.

Geography on the map

Pradita Nambiar

Geography like most subjects hardly ever leaves the textbook in a school. Read this teacher’s experience and see how much fun it can be when you actually allow a little creativity to flow in when you teach.

Learning the ropes by playing the roles

Mangalam Narayanan

Understanding the way a state assembly functions is an important topic in the social studies class. Read to find out how this teacher turned her classroom into a mock assembly!

Walking on the “wild” side

Sanchita Sharma

If you move away from the chalk and talk you will realize how much fun there is in teaching and learning. Here a teacher shares her experience of taking her students on a “wild”journey.