Reading between the lines

Comprehension–a simple yet difficult skill to develop. How does one teach comprehension? What is the idea behind comprehension exercises in grammar? Are comprehension passages just aimed at children providing answers after reading the given text? This article answers all these questions.

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‘Discipline’ – the need of the hour

Discipline is an important aspect of education. Unless a child is disciplined gathering and assimilating knowledge is difficult. And this is not something that the school alone can achieve. The family plays a very important role in inculcating discipline in a child.

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Tracking the transient student

Student mobility is a problem that every school is familiar with. While you can’t stop this from happening there are ways to deal with transient students. This principal writes to tell how you can make student transfers smooth for both you and the student.

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An idea that may have been…

Gandhi’s ideas of education are well known and appreciated but not many put them to practice. Here is a school in Udaipur that is successfully practicising the Nai Taleem philosophy.

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Collaborative online research experiment

At different points of time a teacher is called upon to do things other than just teach her subject. She often has to play the roles of a mediator, counsellor, confidante, etc., for her students. This writer invites all teachers to share and document their knowledge in playing these different roles so that we can all teach and learn from each other the art of being a complete teacher?

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Teacher Fellowships: an idea

The Regional Resouce Centre for Elementary Education at the University of Delhi is offering teacher fellowships to schoolteachers to allow them to undertake classroom based research to improve their professional capacities as teachers. Here is a reprot.

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