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Talk to a teacher, any teacher, and they’ll have a story to tell, whether it’s a quick anecdote about a single student or a huge epic about the challenges and rewards of life as a teacher. You can be...
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Butterfly flutter by
Padmini Menon Who can resist following a butterfly’s trail? The flapping iridescent wings hint at a world whose margins fade forever and ever as you explore. It opens up a universe for both the teacher...
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Violence and Response
Kavita Anand Shishuvan, a community school in Mumbai, has grown organically since its inception in 2001, adding a new class every year. This has given all of us, teachers and students, adequate time to...
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Manish Jain In the September issue of Teacher Plus, in his article entitled ‘Reclaiming Shiksha’, the author introduced Ivan Illich’s idea of deschooling and discussed replacing school-based education...
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S Upendran Welcome to my drawing room cum loo? Two rooms that are an integral part of every house/flat in India are the ‘drawing room’ and the ‘bathroom’ – sometimes, referred to as the ‘loo’. No...
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A Special Kind of Learning
Pawan Singh Photo : CFL, Bangalore Remember that mathematical theorem that you couldn’t understand for the longest time? Or English grammar exercises that gave you a hard time with prepositions or...
View ArticleA Framework for Change
Shalini Advani Schools are, or they ought to be, dynamic, changing organisations if they are to be effective in educating our children. A school which does not think about how to develop, how to...
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M V Pattabhiraman In 1665, the story goes,that Sir Isaac Newton,after seeing an apple fall, sought the reason and came to the conclusion that the natural force of attraction exerted by the earth upon...
View ArticleMaths, The e-learning Way
Rashmi Kathuria Some people think that Mathematics is meant for those who have great mental ability. However, with a decade and a half of teaching math behind me, I beg to differ. There is, no doubt, a...
View ArticleVital statistics
Amit Upadhyay The World Cup debacle of the Indian cricket team in March 2007 led to, among other things, media outrage about the commitment of the players involved. The Indian batting, otherwise...
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Inside the Mind of a Child
Kamala Mukunda Day in and day out, teachers engage with children’s minds. Surely the topics of child development and cognitive psychology must excite the curiosity of any dedicated teacher. More than...
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Lessons to Learn
On a recent trek I came across an old fallen log covered with moss, ferns sprouting out of its various nooks and crannies, its hollow occupied by a variety of wildlife small, tiny and conceivably,...
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Sleight of Teaching
Meghana Rao Isn’t it fascinating to watch bright, unruly ribbons turn into pigeons? Isn’t it amazing to see rabbits transformed into a bouquet of colourful flowers? Or to see a toffee emerge from the...
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