Nandan Bhattacharya
Drama or dramatic plays have a lot to offer both those who are watching it and those who are performing in it. With moral values, model behaviour and tolerance on the decline see how drama can help our students imbibe valuable lessons.
Category: Notes from a Teacher’s Diary
Trekking through nature’s thoughtscape
Disha Jain
On a trekking trip to the world’s highest national park, surrounded by natural beauty and calm, this teacher began reflecting on her journey as a teaching professional, her brief attempt to foray into a different career and how small changes to teacher education programmes can produce more hands-on teachers.
My learnings as a teacher
Sweety Rastogi
A teacher now for many years, Sweety shares what she has learnt over all these years.
Corona conversations
Krittika Hazra
A primary teacher, struggling with online classes, finds some timely help in the form of a worksheet published in Teacher Plus. She shares her experiences.
Online teaching: what I think
Shefali Sompura
A page from another teacher’s Covid diary. The author shares her experience of teaching online.
The parent trap
Latha Vydianathan
A corollary of the virtual classrooms has been that parents are now able to watch the teacher’s every move hawk-eyed and what is more they don’t think twice before interrupting the teacher or pointing out her flaws and mistakes. But as the parents are watching the teachers so also the teachers are gauging parents. Here is a teacher’s fun list of the kind of parents she has ‘virtually’ met so far.
The challenge of working with first graders
Shehnaz
A teacher’s interesting tale on why she loves working with first graders. Not only does she find them challenging, she also gets to learn from them.
Imbibing the ‘never say die’ spirit from children
Anwar Hussain Rayma
Children are younger than us in terms of age but they end up teaching us many things. In these extremely difficult times of the corona virus, it is the never-say-die spirit of his students that helped this teacher change his outlook towards the situation.
Capitalizing a crisis
Himani Tyagi
Ideas for a communicative English virtual class
Anubha Rawat
Virtual classes are here to stay, at least for sometime. While we all agree that there is nothing to beat the freedom and joy we experience in a physical classroom when we teach, we have to try and find ways to bring a little bit of that joy into our virtual classrooms as well. Here is how I tweaked some of my language activities to suit my e-classroom.