Category: Teaching Practice

Adaptive curriculum for the self-directed learner

Sanjhee Gianchandani
The U.S. Department of Education defines personalized learning as instruction tailored to students’ individual learning preferences, needs, and interests. Sanjhee writes that these principles can be broadly applied to adapt language classroom curricula. This means that teaching move from teacher-centric to learner-driven approaches.

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Leveraging Bloom’s Taxonomy for advanced question framing

Charanjit Kaur Brar
Bloom’s Taxonomy is a vital tool that aids educators in designing objectives, assessments, and instructional strategies. It categorizes learning into six levels: Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, and Create. In this follow-up article, Charanjit delves into explanations for each level using photosynthesis as an example.

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Maximizing assessment effectiveness: The significance of aligning question papers with Bloom’s taxonomy

Charanjit Kaur Brar
Charanjit Kaur Brar examines the effectiveness of Bloom’s Taxonomy, a well-known framework for creating assessments, developed by Benjamin Bloom. It classifies learning objectives into six levels of cognitive complexity – remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create – and provides a hierarchical structure for classifying educational goals and encouraging higher-order thinking abilities among students.

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Learning by doing: Research within the curriculum

Anamika Sharma and Vismitha B G
How can research projects play a crucial role in science learning? How can they enable both students / researchers and teachers / mentors to broaden their perspectives, to gain in-depth knowledge, be creative and to be relevant to the world beyond their classrooms?

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TREAT – Theatre for Reinforcing Education And Teaching

Kalpana Sharma
When you learn language, unless you constantly use it, what you have learnt is easily forgotten. This is a problem that language teachers often encounter. We teach students grammar, vocabulary, sentence structures, but don’t provide them with opportunities to apply what they have learnt. This English teacher found a solution in using theatre to help children internalize what they learnt in their English language classes.

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Making the classroom more interesting

Manasi Kanetkar and Ambika Aiyadurai
How can we make the classrooms more interesting and relevant for the students? Can we help the students connect better with the ‘real’ world with help of activities like group-work, field-trips and role-plays?

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Circle of learning

Deepika Nandal
Circle time is a wonderful teaching aid to nurture. Whether it is to break concepts down for children, or allow them time to reflect, or resolve conflicts, make circle time your go-to strategy.

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