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Stages in Reading Books

By Worth Sharing | Jun 22, 2017
English

We, the teachers are born to make a difference

By TED Ed | Jun 20, 2017

Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, "They don't pay me to like the kids." Her response: "Kids don't learn from people they don't like.'" A rousing call to educators to believe in their students and actually connect with them on a real, human, personal level.

 

Gender equality in the classroom

By TeacherPlus | Jun 16, 2017

It is typical for a teacher to say, “Abhishek looks so confident, and he will make a good leader while Nazneen is so caring and she will be able to handle children well”. What is wrong with these observations? Well, nothing is inherently wrong but it leaves an impression on the children that can be extremely damaging. Do we ever say that a boy is so caring that he will be good with children? Gender stereotypes are perpetuated in every social institution and schools are no exceptions.

Does playing chess make you smarter?

By The Conversation | Jun 13, 2017

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Are teachers allowed an ego?

By TeacherPlus | Jun 2, 2017

I would like to present two scenarios that will hopefully lead the reader to the answer this question.

When grandparents become history resource people

By TeacherPlus | May 22, 2017

Have you often found yourself wondering how exactly to make a history lesson interesting and relevant to your students? Suggested in this update is a way to help children comprehend the basics of history by interacting with the elderly and learning through a process of analogy.

The sense of shape, size and numbers through art

By Rajkishore | May 18, 2017

David Horsburgh, the foremost practioner of Activity Based Learning in India, in his book Thinking & Doing illustrates how it is possible to shift the agency into the hands of the learners, teacher becoming almost a redundant facilitator in the background.

Here is an annotated excerpt of 10 pages from that celebrated book.

Copy and Paste Culture of Education

By Worth Sharing | May 11, 2017

How modern times imposes one way of learning and doing things on kids, thus taking away their natural, inborn creative instincts? This short award winning, critically acclaimed animation film, is a reflection of this bitter truth, the homogenous industrial way of education and living, which we blindly believe in.

This is the way the school is shaped

By Karen | May 15, 2017
English

Make stories out of pictures

By Worth Sharing | May 2, 2017

Picture Stories by Radlov was first published in 1960, by Raduga Publishers of Moscow. This child friendly book contains Picture Stories, which are full of fun, mischief and surprises. These stories do not attempt to sermonise, preach or teach. They are sheer, unadulterated fun for children. 

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