Let’s cook history!
Fareen Wahid
Teacher – Good morning students, everyone please open your textbooks to a new chapter on page 45. Fareen, start reading the first paragraph for your class loudly.
Fareen – ‘Revolution is a forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favour of a new system.’
Teacher – Yes, this means revolution. Now copy down the meaning in your notebooks.
This is how our teacher acquainted us with any concept in history.
Now that I am an educator, I reflect upon those days and realize how uninspiring and monotonous the approach to teaching was then. Those days are a lesson to me, every time I plan my class today.
21st century learners create, evaluate and utilize information critically; they indeed need the 21st century teaching approach, they deserve to be taught innovatively, collaboratively and actively in a classroom and then the lessons will prove significant.
Do you know how I taught revolution, civilization, and war to my students? By cooking these concepts! Cooking is an engaging and exciting approach to teaching. It is indeed an innovative way to introduce concepts in the classroom.
Take this into your classroom and leave your students amazed.
Recipe to cook revolution Ingredients Steps – Combine with passion and patriotism. O Violently throw liberty and/or death into the mix. – Divide loyalties into two separate bowls. O Sprinkle Paine’s “Common Sense” in with the patriots to support the flavour. Slowly mix the loyalists bowl in with the patriots, until loyalists are completely dissolved. Bake at high temperatures until the flavour of patriotism is independent of that from Britain. Congratulations! |
The author is a humanities educator based in Mumbai. She is currently a teacher in Garodia International Centre for Learning, Mumbai. She can be reached at fareenwahid18@gmail.com.