Grounds for safe play

How can you make playgrounds safe for play? What skills do playgrounds encourage? What are the things a physical education teacher should keep in mind when on a playground? Find the answers here.

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Creating healing spaces

Statistics reveal that more than half the number of children in India have faced some form of sexual abuse and every second child undergoes emotional abuse. It is, therefore, important that we provide children with safe and nurturing environments to grow up in and schools should play their part in helping out.

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The warm embrace

Everywhere everybody talks about the need to include ‘special’ children in regular schools to give a sense of normalcy to their lives. Although regular schools have started taking in these children, neither the schools nor their teachers are in any way trained to handle them. Therefore, despite being in a regular school, ‘special’ children continue to suffer seperation. Here are some ideas that a teacher from a regular school can adopt to actually start implementing the process of Inclusion.

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Dialogue in the dark

While light is extremely important to life, darkness too has a lot to offer us. Darkness enhances experimental thinking, opens up communication, and helps us learn to trust.

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