Month: September 2015

The lived life of a school

Gurveen Kaur

How do different schools in India function today? What are children learning in these varied schools experiencing? What happens in a school apart from academic learning? It is these questions that the book, Ethnographies of Schooling in Contemporary India attempts to answer.

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How can your garden grow?

Sadhana Ramchander

Gardening is an activity that has the potential to teach us a lot of things. Tending a Schoolyard Garden tells us how we can incorporate gardening into the everyday school curriculum along with its benefits. The book also comes with a CD that has many resources that can be of use for the teacher.

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Taking stock of learning

Anjali Sharma

Evaluating learners is an important part of every teacher’s job. It is also the least explored part of a teacher’s job. Assessing Learners–A Pedagogic Resource by Geetha Durairajan is therefore a timely resource.

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Of boundaries and bridges

Girija Uday Kumar

Life and learning cannot be separated. As teachers we have to show children how lessons in life help them learn. And movies are a good way to do that. This former teachers suggests two movies that have aided her in her endeavours–Dead Poets Society and Mona Lisa Smile.

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Multiplex for teachers

Aditi Mathur and Ratnesh Mathur

The authors give a list of must watch movies for teachers. Movies that will reveal to them something about themselves and teach them something.

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Order, order!

Subha Das Mollick

How do you look for teaching-learning moments in movies? The author explains here with two scenes from the movie, Sound of Music how a movie can be more than just entertainment.

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The big story… of everything!

Adithi Muralidhar

Looking for a comprehensive resource to discuss the environment and sustainability? Adithi Muralidhar shares her experience of using the documentary, The Story of Stuff, with students.

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Modelling learning from life

Shubhangi K Bhide

Human beings are a relatively new species compared to the several different animal species living on earth. Us humans therefore have a lot to learn from other species who co-habit the earth with us. How can we teach children to look at nature for solutions to our problems? The Biomimicry Education Network would be a good place to start.

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