Shirish Darak
Following the Badlapur child sexual abuse case, Shirish Darak reflects on the ambiguity of ‘good touch’ and ‘bad touch.’ According to him, the SAHAJ program promotes a comprehensive approach to sexuality education, emphasizing continuous learning and the active involvement of adults.
Anubha Rawat
Academic achievements are important, but interpersonal skills are what truly set students up for success, writes Anubha Rawat. She shares creative ways to foster these skills, such as drama exercises, peer mentoring, and community involvement.
Aparna Vinod
Aparna Vinod writes about how the traditional approach of teaching instills a fear of learning in students and isolates them from their teachers. Transformative learning, in contrast, positions the teacher not as an expert, but as a facilitator. The process of teaching and learning therefore becomes akin to an exchange between different parties. How does this new-age approach play out in the classroom? Aparna illustrates this with three case studies.
Shamlie Jennifer
Neglecting learning gaps in children will spell trouble for them at a later stage. Learning gaps have to be identified and rectified at the earliest so as to build a storng foundation upon which the child can build knoweldge.
Sanjhee Gianchandani
A majority of our classrooms are designed for the linguistic-verbal and logical-mathematical intelligences. As teachers, it is our responsibility to nurture and help the other intelligences flourish too. There is no need to design multiple lesson plans to cater to the multiple intelligences. With a little bit of imagination, a teacher can include simple activities to her already existing lesson plan or just take the time to identify and highlight regular classroom activities that promote the different intelligences.
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?
Vaibhav Viswanath
Teachers are a stressed lot. And stress is the root cause of several physical and mental problems. Build yoga into your routine to calm your body and mind.
Spatica Ramanujam
English and good communication are many a time taken as synonyms. However, a good communication teacher needs to go beyond not only English but also spoken words, and focus on non-verbal communication. Non-verbal communication needs to accorded the time and attention it warrants.
Megha Bajaj
Learning disabilities in children are not easy to handle as their diagnosis itself is difficult. But learning disabilities are a genuine problem and teachers need to be aware of what these are and how they can help their students tackle them.
Divya Sharma
The pre-draft National Curriculum Framework for School Education (NCF SE) released in April 2023 charts out the means to achieve the vision put forth by the National Education Policy 2020. NCERT has asked all stakeholders for their feedback. Here is a brief overview of the pedagogical and assessment process proposed in NCF SE.
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