Nursery rhymes… beyond the nursery!

Manaswini Sridhar

Nursery rhymes have no use beyond the nursery right? Wrong. Nursery rhymes can be put to good use in language classes beyond the nursery as well. Here are some suggestions.

Football frenzy!

Manaswini Sridhar

The excitement of the Euro and Copa America is still lingering so put on your favourite jersey and find here language exercises based on the world’s most popular game.

Delighting the brain with riddles!

Manaswini Sridhar

Riddles are a great way to get children to play with words. Not only can they answer riddles quickly but they are also willing to take up challenges and search for answers.Here are some ways for teachers to get started to help children improve their listening skills.

Tic-tac-toe!

Manaswini Sridhar

After Bingo, it is now tic-tac-toe. This game encourages strategic and logical thinking and pushes students to learn and demonstrate what they have learned.

Let’s bingo again!

Manaswini Sridhar

Most students find history a boring subject to deal with because they are required to remember dates, when battles were fought, who was the victor or the vanquished and so on. But, if teachers could organise simple games to make this process easy for children, then history would certainly come alive. How about a game like Bingo? Try it out and find your students all fired up to answer your questions on historical dates!

Let’s bingo!

Manaswini Sridhar

Whenever a goup of people is gathered at a party, this is one of the most popular games that adults and children alike enjoy. See how you can convert the simple bingo in to a learning tool.

As the clock ticks

Manaswini Sridhar
How can a math worksheet be fine tuned to teach English? Crazy as that may sound, it is possible and the article here explains how children can master the concept of telling the time in a language that is easy to understand.

Tweak and adopt

Manaswini Sridhar

Perhaps these are better times to be a teacher in than it once was. At least as far as accessibility to teaching material is concerned. If once you had to go through many a book in the library or sit for hours together for inspiration to strike, these days teaching materials on whatever topic are available for plenty. The trouble is at the click of a mouse you get more than you bargain for. So how does one sort through the endless links on the internet to get just what you want for your class? While you may not get exactly what you are looking for you certainly will find enough material to adopt and tweak it to suit your classroom.

Learning at your own pace

Devina Nigam
Children learn faster if and when they are given choices to pace their own learning. Activities which are fun and creative help children to be involved and overcome the pressure of exams. This article suggests some activities where children can explore their own self-paced learning methods.

Centenary of cinema in schools

Subha Das Mollick
How can schools join in the celebration of a hundred years of Indian Cinema? From movie screenings to discussions and quizzes, the list is endless. Here are a few suggestions on how you can get children interested in the history of cinema.