Learning beyond textbooks
In the Indian education system, the textbook is the ultimate source of knowledge in a subject. But is our dependence on textbooks stifiling children’s curiosity and observation skills?
In the Indian education system, the textbook is the ultimate source of knowledge in a subject. But is our dependence on textbooks stifiling children’s curiosity and observation skills?
Since time does not always permit us to take our students out to observe and learn from nature, why not use our natural intelligence to bring the essence of nature into our classrooms and the subjects we learn. Here is how we can do that.
Think aloud can be an effective strategy in the teaching-learning process as teachers can clearly witness how different students think their way out of the problems they encounter. This article offers tips on how students can be taught to think aloud.
Addressing the principal, Shankar Musafir in his book, ‘To the Principal–Yours sincerely’, takes a keen look at the way schools are managed in this country and offers suggestions to improve them. Here we review this book.
A book for all those who want to learn to use the English language better, the first volume of Prof. Upendran’s book, ‘Know Your English’, discusses idioms popular in the language, their origins and meaning. Read here a review of the book.
Business organizations use what is called a Balance Scorecard to evaluate their all-round performance. Similarly, this author has developed an Academic Scorecard that schools can use to evaluate themselves and plan their strategies for improvement accordingly.
Learn how to make your own simple working force meter from this article.
As teachers it is extremely important that we are careful about how we choose to teach concepts. This teacher narrate his experience of attending a workshop in which the trainer without thinking uses a story of communal disharmony to elucidate a math concept.
When there is lack of clarity about something, misconceptions naturally get formed. And if misconceptions are not cleared soon, children end up learning concepts wrongly. Here are some tips on how teachers can recognize and dispell misconceptions.
If the purpose of education is to allow a child to grow mentally, then why are they not allowed to learn what they want to but instead are forced to learn what others want them to asks this tenth standard student.
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