One of the books that I am very grateful for having picked up at an airport book store is a charming collection of letters to and from Richard Feynman titled Don’t you have time to think? Amongst the compilation is a touching exchange between Feynman and his high...
http://www.teacherplus.org/bookfilm-review/the-power-of-action-research The power of action research 4 April 2016No Comment Arun Elassery “I’m just trying to tell you the new way they’re teachin’ the first grade, stubborn. It’s the Dewey Decimal System.” Having never...
As a teacher, surely you must have had many AHA moments? Those moments when something clicked miraculously for you, or your student, or your class? When a deeper insight emerged so spontaneously that you were left awestruck? If you can write about that moment – in...
NEERAJA RAGHAVAN Lessons to teach, a class of students to face every day, notebooks to correct, staff meetings to attend, parents and management to satisfy…isn’t this the lot of every teacher? One would surmise that a harmonious and peaceful ambience would facilitate...
As we continue discussing Indrani Barua’s question (see box alongside), our respondents now turned to exploring the cause of such behaviour. Taking off from where we ended the last part of the discussion,Vineeta Sood declared: “One can find an entry into the child’s...
A teacher educator and her organisation go to the root of the problem to improve quality of education Sreelatha Menon | October 29, 2015 The class was getting nowhere. Yes, we played games, enacted plays in the class and did anything that could help make the English...
2 NOVEMBER 2015 Neeraja Raghavan As always, our staffroom discussion had a hangover from the last question, with Ajitha Paladugu writing in about the teaching of poetry. Bemoaning the common tendency of teachers to ‘guess’ the intent of the poet in writing that poem,...
In this final part of our discussion around Sreelata Menon’s question: How can a poem be made a learning experience for the student? we take the lead from Attreyee Chatterjee’s assertion that if we are teaching a poem to an older age group, for example senior school...
Our discussion on How can a poem be made into a learning experience? continues with many more tested out ideas from teachers – as well as from those who are not teachers, but who have strong feelings on the subject. Nalini Ravel began by saying: I really love the way...
