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… Safety in Indian Schools 29 Jul 2009 Last week we were informed of a horrible accident that took place at a well known Gurgaon play school. On that fateful day, two weeks after a boy had been…
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… Where The Mind is Without Fear 8 Jul 2009 My wife tells me I should know this poem (also known as Tagore's Patriotic Prayer) by Rabindranath Tagore. She says that it is (or was) part of the school curriculum…
Education Knowledge creation – a hostage of our education system 19 Jun 2009 A few days ago I was reading an article by an eminent Indian educationist and came across a reference to a 1991 report “Learning without Burden” and its conclusion that…
Education… Goodbye textbooks, hello world! 12 Jun 2009 Yesterday, I came across a very curious bit of news - California has announced a ban on textbooks in schools. One of the reasons for such a radical move was…
Education… Education & Technology Quotes 4 Jun 2009 I found this ppt by Tony Vincent on slideshare. This presentation has been seen by over 1000 people and embeded in over a dozen websites / blogs in less than 2…
Differentiated Learning Differentiated learning is about differentiated teaching 3 Jun 2009 Most of our classrooms adopt one-size-fits-all delivery system which breeds disengagement and detachment from learning and is detrimental to learning. Nowadays, the students profile in the schools is more diverse…
E-Portfolio Electronic portfolios – a multimodal education tool 12 May 2009 ‘An e-portfolio is a purposeful aggregation of digital items – ideas, evidence, reflections, feedback etc, which “presents” a selected audience with evidence of a person’s learning and/or ability.’ Sutherland, S.…
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