Teacher camaraderie as a building block for success

Bindu Subramaniam
Cooperation and friendship among teachers is a great thing to role model for children and helps their social emotional learning, but being educators, teachers need to hold each other up. The article shares five tips to build a stronger community of teachers in your school.

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A circle of care, trust and maitri

Saesha Pillai and Pranali Patil
What does professional friendship mean to teachers? It is a circle of care and trust, of sensitivity and vulnerability, the joy of shared learning experiences and a zone of comfort. It is a space for teachers to support each other, share honest feedback and celebrate each other’s growth.

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Nurturing human values

N Sai Prashanti
Nurturing is a big part of school education now than ever before. Here are some ways in which human values can be inculcated in children.

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SEL: An essential tool for healthy development and meaningful learning

Lorea Martinez
Social and Emotional Learning is extremely important in a world filled with strife, discontent and hatred. Usually when we talk of SEL, it is mostly the student that we are thinking about, but we should also be concerned about the social and emotional needs of the teacher if she is to care for the student. Read on for suggestions.

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Time to go back to the old teaching methods?

Latha Vydianathan
PBL, hands-on learning, experimental pedagogy are all very well, but have we done the right thing by ignoring learning by memory all together? Here is why sometimes memorization is also a good learning technique and why we must bring it back into our teaching methods.

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The parent-teacher partnership

R Jeyatheerthan
Parents and teachers have to work together to turn our children into responsible, well-adjusted and balanced young adults. Let us come together for the sake of our children.

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How can teachers’ abilities be enhanced?

Hemen Dutta
A teacher’s job is not easy at all. But that doesn’t mean that she can hide behind this fact and use it as an excuse for a less than satisfactory teaching. Teachers need to be supported and policies need to be changed to help the teacher do her best.

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It’s always possible to learn new tricks!

Usha Raman
You are never too old to learn something new. Learning is second nature especially for teachers. Whether it is finding new ways of managing the classroom, or developing new teaching techniques, or discovering new facets of their students, teachers never stop learning. Learning and growing is human nature and that is why if one has the curiosity and the willingness, one can learn anything at any age.

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Crypto kids

Neerja Singh
Welcome to Web3, the future of the internet. Even as this vision for a newer and better version of the World Wide Web is evolving, young children are already being trained in the world of artificial intelligence, machine learning, crypto currencies, blockchain technology and NFTs. Like with everything that is new, Web3 is both exciting and baffling.

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