Month: September 2014

Enhancing teacher capital

Rubina Majid

You don’t become a doctor unless you go through years of training. You don’t become a lawyer unless you apprentice under someone. To bring professionalism into teaching, a B.Ed degree alone won’t do. It is important that teachers also are trained.

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Speaking across borders

Chintan Girish Modi

It is time that India and Pakistan stopped being bitter about the partition and start accepting each other. Let us not poison the next generation as well with our bitterness. Let us learn from and not just about the partition and from not state sponsored textbooks but from a variety of resources that project a more humane history.

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Metals and ores

Yasmin Jayathirtha

How are metals extracted from ores? Does this in anyway affect the environment? Try these experiments and find out.

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Potters par excellence

Geetha Iyer

In most humans wasps generate the kind of fear that honey bees bring. But did you know that not all wasps sting? Observing the different kinds of wasps visiting your home and your garden can be quite an enriching experience.

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Potters par excellence

Geetha Iyer

In most humans wasps generate the kind of fear that honey bees bring. But did you know that not all wasps sting? Observing the different kinds of wasps visiting your home and your garden can be quite an enriching experience.

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Think like Holmes

Every child is born curious. They say when a child joins school, he/she loses that curiosity. Let us not kill curiosity but encourage scientific thinking among children. Here are a few steps on how you can do that.

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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.

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Setting yourself up

Monica Kochar

How can you teach sets and venn diagrams without defining these terms until the children have understood the concepts? Here’s how.

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