Mamata Pandya
Magnolia kobus Janaki Ammal. If women scientists are a rare species, what is rarer is to have inventions named after them. In the 19th century, Janaki Ammal was a woman much ahead of her time. Her work as a botanist both in India and outside is truly inspiring.
Aruna Sankaranarayanan
As teachers, is it enough if we know our students and the subjects we teach? How important is the knowledge of the self to a teacher? Aruna Sankaranarayanan looks for answers as she unravels the last book in this column.
Anubha Rawat
A teacher makes a good professional not only when she teaches her subject well but also when she conducts herself well. Young children are impressionable and keen observers and therefore a teacher has to always be alert to her actions and words.
Astha Chaudhary and Dipti Arora
Environment education in its current form is all very well when it is being imparted to students living in concrete urban jungles, but when we use the same approach and textbooks to teach children living with and off nature, it is wanting. Local knowledge and contexts should be included in EVS to enrich the subject and make it more useful.
Sanjhee Gianchandani
Traditional teaching methods don’t hold a student’s attention for long. And when students are not attentive, they don’t retain what they have learnt. So how can a teacher make her classes engaging enough to allow students to imbibe what they are learning? Have you tried theatre yet?
Anil Kumar Patnaik
Abhas sir is back with another number magic trick up his sleeve. What is it this time?
Chandrika Muralidhar and Vikas Chandra Roy
They heavily influence a teacher’s pedagogy and behaviour in the classroom, yet teacher beliefs are not given much thought. How are these beliefs formed, how much do they affect a teacher’s practice and why is it important to be alert to their existence?
Disha Dbritto
Online teaching became the norm during COVID-19 and teachers continue to follow some of the practices they started at the time. While we seem to be moving in the right direction in our goal to incorporate technology in education, have we considered the pedagogical problems that can crop up when teaching, especially math and science, online?
Soma Chakraborty
The inclusion and acceptance of special children into regular society and school will affect them positively. Here’s how this school and teachers held Anjali’s hand and helped her confidently stand on her own feet.
Kalpana Sharma
While most of us may have a surface level understanding of learning disabilities like dyslexia, not many of us stop to think of what life is actually like for a dyslexic child in school. What can schools do to support these differently-abled children?
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