A tryst with destiny

Divya Mishra
In moments of confusion and distress, a teacher only has to look as far as her students to find the simple yet powerful solutions to her problems, as Divya quickly realized.

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"What is that?" A teacher learns

Geetha Iyer
If you start your career as a teacher believing that you can learn even from your students and the situations that they put you in, you will definitely grow as a teacher. This Geetha realized during her very first stint as a teacher.

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“What is that?” A teacher learns

Geetha Iyer
If you start your career as a teacher believing that you can learn even from your students and the situations that they put you in, you will definitely grow as a teacher. This Geetha realized during her very first stint as a teacher.

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Give credit where it’s due

Lakshmi Sengupta
Putting together a lesson plan or project idea to submit to your academic coordinators can sometimes get frustrating especially if you are looking for fresh ideas. Lakshmi writes about how an inspirational moment with her students helped her pitch a brilliant project idea to her academic coordinator.

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A golden ticket to learning

Leena Satuluri
For any teacher that has taught for many years, there will be no dearth of life lessons she can learn from her students. Leena remembers six of several students who taught her little wisdoms of life.

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Children are like trees

Amit Deshwal
From wanting to become a monk and learn the truth about life, Amit is now quite content being a teacher, and learning about life from the children he is working with.

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Why bother being disturbed by disturbing art!

Prakash Iyer
Why are humans drawn to art that generates negative emotions like sadness, melancholy, horror, fear, disgust? Shouldn’t we avoid art that depicts behaviors and attitudes that we find reprehensible, or abhorrent? Beginning a new column.

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Blogs as a tool for reflective teaching

Jennifer Thomas
When teachers try out new methods or engage in experimenting with a particular lesson plan in the classroom, how do they get to share their experience with other teachers? Do they reflect on whether their new ideas found favour with the children or not? Here is a story of how teachers turned reflective by writing blogs and how the experience helped them get an insight into the various teaching- learning moments.

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A room where no one hears the bell

Sunita Biswas
Staff rooms in schools are spaces with endless possibilities for fascinating journeys. While they can mean different things to different people —- either a sanctum for communication and collaboration or just simply a place to unwind, or a breeding ground for gossip and discord, there is no denying that staff room dynamics reflect the attitudes, values and work ethics of the school as a whole. What is important however is that the dynamics can also generate a synergy that is both productive and creative.

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