Anand Krishnaswamy
A teacher uses a contemporary experience to bring alive ancient cities in ruins and helps children imagine their dream city. Using local resources to create extensive learning, children learn what is needed to live in a city.

Kalyani Mekala
A parent teacher recounts how her son who had a great affinity for gadgets was able to take his mind off them and physically and mentally involve himself in selling lemonade and learn math at the same time.

Nivedita Bedadur
Teaching is not all about physical preparation of the teaching learning material or activities. It is about being engaged with the minds of the children around you, their contexts and their concerns. A teacher recounts how her learning journey began and how she began to value children’s contexts.

Sukanya Muraleedharan
Most teachers agree that a lesson plan has to be made before they go into a class. But when a carefully thought out plan falls flat, is it time to rejoice and see a miracle unfold or is it something to regret? Here is an amazing write-up of how a teacher’s experience turned out to be magical because the students were able to see the meaning of what they were doing and it was fun too.

Geetha Nadarajan
Can you learn physics from Nature? And Newton’s Law? A teacher explains how she got her students to understand a heavy subject by seeking nature’s help.

Radhika Chaturvedi
A lesson that started with an experiment on energy, current and electricity ended with a debate on the merits and demerits of nuclear energy. It also gave voice to students whose lives are not often spoken about in classrooms in public schools.

Saroj Bhasin
A moving account of how a student teacher handled a mischievous class of students and what she learnt from them.

Manjula Rao
How does one teach English to rural children especially those who have never heard a sentence of spoken English outside their classrooms? Using art, science, story-telling and drama, the integrated lesson turned out to be an enjoyable one in collaboration. Read on to know more.

Urvashi Nangia
How can teachers and parents create a stimulating environment where children can explore, experience and in the process learn things, without stress, without burden and expectation? In this article, the author shares some of her experiences of how the combination of storybooks and play, led her two-year-old into some pre-numeracy concepts.

Ratna Singamsetty
From showing absolute disinterest to learn Telugu to performing skits in the language, it was the children who helped the teacher turn around her Telugu classes. In this instance it was the teacher who learnt some amazing things from the children.