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.…
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…
Differentiated Learning Differentiated instruction – Redefining teaching and learning 1 Jun 2009 As a parent of a 3-year old son who is an articulate communicator and natural inquirer, I am currently facing a dilemma. If I put on my educationist lenses to…
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…
