Let’s bingo again!

Manaswini Sridhar

Most students find history a boring subject to deal with because they are required to remember dates, when battles were fought, who was the victor or the vanquished and so on. But, if teachers could organise simple games to make this process easy for children, then history would certainly come alive. How about a game like Bingo? Try it out and find your students all fired up to answer your questions on historical dates!

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Whipping up a yarn

Deepa Kiran

Everybody loves a good story and children especially, because storytelling is all about creating. Here are a few tips on how you can engage your students with a good story.

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Re-imagining the learning landscape

Shikha Takker and Ritesh Khunyakari

How can the dominant view of a classroom be changed to recognise its worth as a valuable resource for learning of teachers and teacher educators? Classrooms need to be viewed not just as spaces for ‘practice’ but as a resource enabling learning. Both teacher educators and classroom teachers can nurture each others’ learning experiences by changing the way classrooms can be used.

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Them versus Us

Geetha Durairajan
Can inclusive education , that is much talked about today, also include people from other communities and gender and not just people with disabilities? Can we teach our children to recognise that barriers are created by people, and that in actuality, though people are different, they are also the same?

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Leading their own learning

Aditi Mathur and Ratnesh Mathur

How can schools create an environment where children lead their own learning? Here are eight steps that teachers can adapt in their own spaces to create learning leaders.

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The backstory of balancing equations

Yasmin Jayathirtha

Teachers find that they struggle to teach balancing equations to children with the result that students find chemistry classes very difficult to follow. So, how can the concepts be made clear first before the equations are understood?

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The Parikrma magic

Arun Elassery

Parikrma is a successful experiment in school education. The Parikrma group of schools are located in poor neighbourhoods and serve children from the slums of Bangalore. The facilities available to the children make them good at sports and academics.

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Colour me red

Richa Gupta
How can colour be harnessed to improve learning? Here are a few tips on adding colour to your classroom environment to up the learning quotient.

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Taking the challenge

Vijay A. Singh
Competitive events related to academics such as the Olympiads in math and science celebrate the best young minds in high school. They are an excellent educational resource and need to be used wisely. School managements and teachers must realise that they offer a glorious opportunity for students to be exposed to the beauty that lies in the subjects especially mathematics. Our Cover theme gives an overview of the Olympiads and how teachers can nurture their students to participate in these events.

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