Curriculum Curriculum Design is Like Farming 9 May 20147 Sep 2018 Designing curriculum and instruction is like farming - it is cyclic. As in farming you plan, sow, nurture, harvest and use the evolved understanding and tools to start the next…
Learner centric teaching Teach children or curriculum? 16 Aug 20127 Sep 2018 Lately, we have been silent on the blog front as we untangled curricular confusion and cobwebs helping four schools under the same management spring clean their primary school curriculum. Over…
International Schools Lalage Prabhu on International Schools in India 28 Feb 2010 http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9937975&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 Transcript Payal: Very often one reads and hears about the sudden spurt in the growth of international schools in India, do you feel that there has been a sudden…
Education Playing to Learn, Learning to Play 3 Nov 2009 Playing and learning are synonymous for children. Children of all ages develop cognitively, socially, emotionally and physically through play. Play provides them with an opportunity to create, invent, reason and…
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…
Curriculum Textbooks-dominated classrooms 10 Aug 2009 “The present day classroom practices are, in almost all schools of the country, totally dominated by textbooks. All premises of flexibility of the curriculum and syllabus and freedom of the…
Education… The Animal School 22 Jul 2009 I found this incredible write-up/poem about an imaginary animal school. Did I say imaginary? The setting may be imaginary, but the characteristics highlighted are widely prevalent. -x-x-x- Once upon a…
Education Music in classroom 20 Jul 2009 Bob Marley’s conviction, “Music’s gonna teach them a lesson” couldn’t be further from the truth if you were to look at way educational programmes are designed and delivered in most…
Curriculum Commonsense in Curriculum 15 Jun 2009 Curriculum is the driving force of a school and can be loosely defined as the framework within which the teaching learning in a school is designed. In that sense, it…
Education Mecca of Indian Educational Research – a surreal experience 10 Jun 2009 Yesterday, I went on a professional pilgrimage to the Mecca of curriculum and educational research in India - the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), New Delhi. In…
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