Category: Notes from a Teacher’s Diary

What is my role as a teacher?

Ranjeeta Prajapati
As teachers is it our job only to teach our students the syllabus? A small and seemingly insignificant incident gave this teacher the answer to the above question.

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Math can be fun!

Sadaf Sayed
When you introduce math to children through interesting and fun facts, children will find it easier to like the subject

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Books in the time of COVID

Anshumalika Rai and Nimesh Ved
The pandemic struck different chords in different ways. When schools remained open with only teachers attending, what brought them together and how did they reconnect? From books, music, poetry, as well as having fun – the teachers did it all. This was the effect of the Book Room that was started with a lot of promise and enthusiasm to get children and teachers to read together.

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Where there is a will…

Seema Satti
Libraries have always been physical spaces we can go to, to learn and lose ourselves. But COVID has now forced us to rethink libraries. Here’s how a resourceful school librarian made sure that her students always had access to books during the pandemic.

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A hypocrite

Trisha Chakraborty
Isn’t the adult community a hypocritical one? We want our children to grow up with all the right values but don’t want to practice them ourselves. Children grow up observing and learning from adults, how then do we except them to do right simply by giving them moral value lessons?

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Are we ready for ‘hybrid education’?

Kiran Sangeeta Murali
With schools reopening across the country, will students be able to adapt to the new routine? Reorganizing and restructuring a student’s day bit by bit, a small step at a time will help them deal with their offline time-table gradually.

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