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Asking why: A key to physics
Vasanthi Padmanabhan Sometimes I am a little unkind to all my many friends in education … by saying that from the time it learns to talk, every child makes a dreadful nuisance of itself by asking...
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Get ahead with the news
Aditi Mathur and Ratnesh Mathur The article, ‘News-paper-chase!’ published in the March 2010 issue of Teacher Plus had used newspapers to devise games to be played in the classroom. This time the focus...
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Leadership unlimited by language
K N Chandrashekaran I’d like to share something with this audience. Do I have your permission?” The little girl from class 7 who asked this question was hardly half my height. I asked her to go ahead....
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A world beyond the mainstream
Shalini B As a child growing up in a fairly well-off middle class family I had everything I asked for. A good education, wonderful books to read, access to all kinds of resources, in other words I...
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Classroom language
Manaswini Sridhar I am just going to begin my career as an English language teacher for the primary section. I would like to train my students in soft skills even at this level. I know it is possible....
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Quality of education and the RTE Act
Ramdas Bhaskaran Last week we received a notice from the National Institute of Open schooling’s Open Basic Education department informing us that we should not enroll children below 14 years of age....
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Impact of CCE in schools
Meeta Mohanty Last year, the CBSE introduced a new set of educational reforms with Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE), suggesting an overhaul of the education system. Documents have been...
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Story time
Suchitra Reddy Getting children to think up stories is not difficult – if we let the child choose what to write about! Unguided writing can help unleash a child’s imagination and creativity, and if...
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Developing space for debate and dialogue
Many social scientists and cultural critics have talked about the loss of spaces in which we can freely engage with ideas, discuss and debate currents issues, learn how to articulate our thoughts in a...
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Curriculum through teachers’ eyes
Sridivya Mukpalkar The end of the year may mark several kinds of transitions for children and parents: from one class to the next, from one level of schooling to the next, sometimes one town to...
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