Playing your way into math
Suma Vivekanandan
The best way to teach math, especially at the primary level, is through games. Teach place value, addition/subtraction and estimation through these games.
Suma Vivekanandan
The best way to teach math, especially at the primary level, is through games. Teach place value, addition/subtraction and estimation through these games.
Lakshmi Karunakaran
A teacher not only teaches her students but also cares for them and this can cause her a lot of emotional and mental stress. Care-giving requires you to be empathetic, understanding, patient, and emotionally available to your students. In the process of giving so much, teachers hardly notice, until too late, that they are experiencing symptoms of burn out. Teachers should constantly be alert and aware of their own emotional well-being and take care of themselves as much as they do their students.
Usha Raman
We all agree that teaching is a strenuous job and while we identify several reasons for this, we never look at care giving as a possible cause that leads to teacher stress and burn out. Of all her different roles and responsibilities, care giving takes a lot from the teacher, both mentally and physically and this is why the school should build a system to care for and support their teachers.
Usha Raman
This Special issue, curated by one of our long-time contributors, Neeraja Raghavan, is the outcome of an idea to get teachers to reflect on the contextualization of their lessons. The articles that we received reflect the level of detail and the diversity of the teachers’ lived experiences. If one teacher brought alive ancient cities in ruins through a contemporary experience, another showed how to develop English textbooks from the children’s own experience. In other words, ‘indigenous pedagogy’ is really all around us.
Nisha Rajkumar Butoliya
Textbooks hold an important position in classroom teaching and learning. A child’s world can be visualized in the classrooms if textbooks are enriched with the context of children. So when the SCERT, Gangtok, decided to revise English textbooks for grades 1 to 3, teachers engaged in this work felt the need to include and appreciate children’s experiences and knowledge.
Indira Vijaysimha
How can a teacher get disinterested children to learn Hindi? While Hindi prose can be easy to tackle, Hindi poetry with all the metaphors and similes drawn from nature can be tough to handle. Did the teacher in question manage to achieve a breakthrough? Read on for a lively account.
Shahbaan Shah
Social and emotional learning of young people happens through conversations in classrooms in the municipal schools of Mumbai. Stories from the students’ contexts or their lives help them connect to the learning and also help them talk about what matters to them. This article throws light on how facilitators can build open spaces for student learning
Shahbaan Shah
Social and emotional learning of young people happens through conversations in classrooms in the municipal schools of Mumbai. Stories from the students’ contexts or their lives help them connect to the learning and also help them talk about what matters to them. This article throws light on how facilitators can build open spaces for student learning
Gita Krenek
The author’s approach to teaching English to primary school children in Uttarakhand has reaped enormous rewards. From writing their own textbooks to making sure that the situations in the stories and dialogues mirrored the children’s lives and experiences – that is, a rural hill culture of small holdings and a semi-subsistence lifestyle, it felt like an uphill task initially. But when the stories resonated with the children, there was greater engagement, interest and motivation.
Nabanita Deshmukh
Here is an interesting account of how the author managed to make her teaching more desi so as to connect to rural children’s unique ways of learning.
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