Sharoon Sunny
How can teachers go about their day by being immersed ‘in’ the moment? Can they practice ‘mindful’ living in their classrooms?How can the techniques of mindfulness be used to harness the power of attention in the classroom?The teacher must first learn to practice it herself.
Sudha Mahajan
Gone are the days when teachers used to stand at the head of the class delivering lectures. This is the day and age of self learning. And what is the role of the teacher here? Creating an environment for self learning for the child. Here are some strategies to help you set up such an environment for your students.
Kishor Kulkarni
Science is best learned through active engagement with it. Here are some activities that you can try in your class to make the subject more lively and fun for your students.
Alex M Thomas
Jotting down notes is an important practice that every learner must inculcate, for it is these notes that can lead to better understanding and development of ideas.
Aditi Chandrasekar
How does online teaching compare with teaching face to face? Does one score over the other and are students satisfied with learning online? This is an article where the author has been on both sides of the fence, and is able to clearly explain the pluses and the minuses.
Preeti Chadha Sadh
How second graders in a language classroom learnt to write a poem based on their experiences is what this article is all about.
Shweta Shripad Naik Often, educators as part of their teaching, attempt to bring familiar/known examples from students’ lives into the classroom. When teaching mathematics in schools, this happens on several occasions and in various degrees. Teachers use real life contexts when introducing a concept or conveying a math problem or even while correcting a solution. However, there are certain portions of mathematics teaching that remain unaffected by what real-life mathematics would entail for that situation. In this article, I report how teaching that emphasizes learning of mathematical procedures, limits the use of real-world contexts. Specifically, I discuss how problems that seem obviously solvable from the students’ real life point of view become inaccessible to them, when constrained by the “steps” that school mathematics require. I describe here a lesson from a 7th standard classroom where students are learning to solve problems of profit and loss. This topic is considered part of commercial mathematics. Commercial mathematics is defined as the math that is used in the practical world of commerce and real-life. Among all the topics in mathematics, in this one, the use of real life contexts is inevitable. In the lesson narrated here we see how real-life contexts help students solve the problems, and at the same time cause difficulty for teachers to bring every student to focus on the “steps”. The “steps” are an integral part of teaching mathematics in school and here I describe how giving priority to steps in teaching, that too without understanding, create a disconnected mathematics. I discuss an example from research where educators bring to light alternative strategies that are intrinsic to real-life contexts. Don’t solve the problem, do the “steps”! Punit1 Sir, is a middle school mathematics teacher and teaches students from diverse backgrounds in a low socio-economic locality. He was teaching profit and loss to the students on a particular day. After a rhetorical explanation on how to decide profit or loss in a transaction, he ventured into solving “application” problems. The phrase “application” is commonly used for those type of problems, where one uses the mathematics learned to solve real life problems. He wrote the following problem on the board. “Shaila bought something for Rs. 40 and sold it for Rs. 60, then what happened?” The students immediately responded in chorus, “Profit of Rs. 20”. I got the impression that the students understood the concept of profit. However, Punit Sir was not happy about the chorus answer, he asked everyone to speak one by one. He
Anindita Dutta, Ashmita Chatterjee, Shazia Akhtar
This lesson on States and their Capitals was prepared for a competition that required teachers to use technology to teach students— namely music tracks, power point presentations and movies. The result was that the teachers used all the eight multiple intelligences to teach the topic.
Sukanya De, Suman Sarda
Algebra comes alive in this teaching methodology used by teachers to teach the complicated concept of Sets. The lesson plan was designed to explain abstract mathematical concepts in a simple, lucid way by developing a connection with real life situations. Audio- visual aids were used such as pictures, videos and photographs, all of which were put together into a movie.
Nikhil Eyeroor
With the education technology market growing by leaps and bounds, the question that is now being asked is ,”can children bring their own digital devices to school?” The devices can include smart phones, laptops,tablets, computers etc. It is up to schools to think about the benefits or otherwise and decide accordingly.
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