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Category: Teacher Training

Education…

A state of atrophied human resources

8 Jul 2010
Greg Mortenson is probably to be blamed for my misplaced and unrealistic zeal! I had been following the work of Greg for a long time for inspiration and ideas as…
Teacher Training

New learning, and reaffirmation in the vale of Doon

11 Sep 2009
Teacher Training Programmes impart new learning and insights to both the trainers and participants, that is, if both let go of who they are to become what they might be.…
Education…

Teachers are not what they used to be!

31 Aug 2009
Over the last few weeks I have had the privilege of speaking with a few heads of school. I have known some of them from the time they were teachers…
Curriculum…

Text-books as curriculum

14 Aug 2009
A long time ago I read, “Teachers are designers”. It has taken me years to understand the implications of that simple sentence. As a teacher who has taught across the…
Assessment…

Examination reforms in India needs careful planning

6 Jul 2009
Changes in the examination system proposed by the HRD Minister Mr Kapil Sibal, are commendable. There is a body of research and studies conducted by eminent Indian educationists behind this…
Learner centric teaching…

10 practical learner-centric teaching strategies

22 Jun 2009
Here are some simple and practical student-friendly teaching techniques which can be incorporated into the classroom. These techniques, if used purposefully, puts the learner at the centre of the learning…
Assessment…

Assessment of Student-Initiated Inquiries

23 May 2009
One challenge for the teachers who dabble in the inquiry-approach is how to assess something that looks so very diverse, open-ended and fluid, in some ways. How does a teacher align the inquiry…
Teacher Training

Inquiry process in classrooms

19 May 2009
The inquiry approach to teaching-learning is departure from the traditional teacher-directed strategies. Once a teacher gets somewhat comfortable with the process, the next battle for her in the classroom is…
Teacher Training

Inquiry-based teaching

18 May 2009
“The school needs to have more student-initiated inquiries than teacher-driven ones”, was the observation of the visiting team of IB experts who had come to study classroom practices in the…
Teacher Training

Chasm between teacher training & practice

5 May 2009
Research is an existential attitude and therefore since time immemorial there have been facts established and theories propounded about education in general and learning in particular. This enormous body of…
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