Education “Holistic education”- Walk the Talk 29 May 2010 Growing up to a certain age is always fun; it’s growing up after that, which is usually a pain. My schooling was in an era when ‘holistic education’ was something…
Education… Birth of an institution 6 Oct 2009 Once upon a time, there was a very young school in the land of long, cold winters and brief, short spring. Like any run-of-the-mill school, it was ambitious but clueless.…
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…
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… About School 25 Jun 2009 I came across this poignantly inspirational poem by R. Nukerji in “Global teacher, Global Leaner” by Graham Pike and David Selby. It would be a shame not to share it.…
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…
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…
E-Portfolio Investigating e-portfolios: The learner’s perspective 15 May 2009 E-portfolio (EP) learner preferences in an EP system: Flexibility: EPs are about people, rather than technology. EP tools should be unobtrusive, supportive & flexible to accommodate the diverse learner needs…
Education Private tuitions – a reflection of falling teaching standards in India 9 May 2009 A survey conducted by Assocham Social Development Foundation has found that falling teaching standards and fear of poor performance in school and national level assessments drive urban Indian middle class…
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