Category: Teaching Practice

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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Intertwining theatre and learning

Sanjhee Gianchandani
Traditional teaching methods don’t hold a student’s attention for long. And when students are not attentive, they don’t retain what they have learnt. So how can a teacher make her classes engaging enough to allow students to imbibe what they are learning? Have you tried theatre yet?

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Students as Futurists: Imagination in the classroom

Ketaki Chowkhani and Kushal Sohal
What happens when a group of students is asked to imagine a utopian scenario vis-à-vis gender and sexuality; asked to move beyond text books and get creative. To let their imagination run wild as they envisaged a better world. Can the students think beyond the immediate? Can they bring a shift in the way they think?

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How correct is our correction?

Jwairia Saleem
Correcting notebooks many a time brings to mind a picture of a tired teacher hurriedly going through notebooks. Let us go beyond the cliches and explore whey we check the notebooks in the first place? And, whether our actions help the students to improve?

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Case studies in the science classroom

Chandrika Muralidhar
Science classrooms should be vibrant, inquisitive, and exploratory. They should be able to produce scientists who can find solutions to the world’s problems. Using case studies as a teaching methodology is a good way to make science learning real.

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