Neha Pradhan Arora
Teachers have a lot of responsibilities and the primary task is not one of completing the syllabus, not ensuring that all children pass, but to make sure that at the end of schooling, children turn out to be responsible citizens. Children need to become active citizens and this can happen only when the students imbibe all the correct values.
Category: Things to Think About
A teacher must be a mentor too
Avneesh Kumar
School teachers are often faced with situations that go beyond the classroom. They have to play the role of a counsellor and mentor to help a child who is having problems either in studies or at home or among friends. Pschycoanalysis may be the right mechanism for the teacher to effectively deal with such children.
Time to raise the fig leaf?
Neerja Singh
Sex is no longer something that is hidden from view. Kids as young as six or seven gyrate vigorously to Bollywood tunes copying the actors on screen during school competions and we adults applaud the raunch choreography as cute. Have we as a society become desensitized?
Shifting the paradigms of schooling and learning
R S Krishna
This article advocates a shift in the paradigms of learning and schooling where parents are counselled to accept their children for who they are and for the talent that they possess. In a broad sense, economies need to be tailored to suit the educational and cognitive and emotive needs of the masses.
It pays to persevere
Aruna Sankaranarayanan
What is the role of effort in achieving success in any field? Is ability given more importance than effort? Should not a child be rewarded for the effort and not just for the performance?This article tries to find answers to these questions.
Portraits from two different worlds
Amit Deshwal
A simple experiment that this author conducted with children from a rural school led him to ask thought-provoking questions on the education system that we are working in.
Learning to teach from mistakes
Meena Raghunathan
When our students make mistakes and the same ones over and over again, our instinct tells us to reprimand them. But, if we hold back and analyze the mistakes that students commit, as teachers we can learn how better to teach them.
Learning beyond textbooks
In the Indian education system, the textbook is the ultimate source of knowledge in a subject. But is our dependence on textbooks stifiling children’s curiosity and observation skills?
Learning in context
Learning sessions in classrooms come nowhere near experiential learning making the whole process dull and drab. This delightful article cites two instances where a lot of learning takes place both for the student and the teacher.
Through the gender lens
Teachers need to be conscious of how gender stereotypes work in schools and classrooms and must learn to alter their clasroom practices. A look at how this bias can be negated.