Anu likes a lot of things about her father. But what she likes most is his moustache! With this delightful and simple story, Madhuri Purandare gives children the chance to make friends with Anu and find out about her dad's Mo!
Classroom activities:
1. Ask the children to draw a picture of a relative who has a moustache. Like Anu does in the story, how would they describe them?
This article aims at describing certain strategies that would help teachers become better storytellers. The demonstration was done for primary school teachers by narrating a story called ‘How the Bean got its strings’, the ‘desi’ version of a Grimm’s fairytale.
As teachers, before we take up the issue of teaching biology in primary school, let us understand its place in the primary curriculum. At the primary level, children need to develop three kinds of academic skills...
This presentation encourages the use of newspapers as an educational tool in the classroom. Newspapers can be used for students to deepen their understanding of the world around them, while at the same time improve their language skills.
Are certain individuals born to be teachers and can only those be truly competent? Or can people without such aspirations develop to become ‘great teachers’? Are there certain conditions, the presence of which foster such development?