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Making the climb fun for your child!
Sneha Reddy Built on a fantasy of white walls with sketches of playing children and tiny shelves stacked with colourful books, each row having a slate for a sign board- The Learning Ladder makes for an...
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Thumbs up to bottle caps
Aditi Mathur and Ratnesh Mathur When we were children, the availability of resources like art, craft material, toys was limited. Hence, every bit of junk was treasured by us. Even a toothpaste tube was...
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What is a teaching aid?
Meena Raghunathan Conventionally, we understand a teaching aid to be something that teachers need to prepare (or buy) specially in order to help them teach a concept more effectively. But is this...
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Yasmin Jayathirtha School science, to be meaningful, interesting and accessible to students has to be primarily experimental. However for large classes, it is hard to provide both the space and the...
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Making the margins visible
Usha Raman High school social studies curricula are generally planned so as to prepare children to enter life in a democracy as responsible and participative adult citizens. It’s a different matter, of...
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For a stress-free childhood
Seetha Anand Vaidyam There has been a spurt in the number of pre-primary schools and centres catering to the early years of children. Advertisements about creating a strong foundation, adopting modern...
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Changing times for tiny tots
Ardra Balachandran and Deepti Bharthur “Surely, education has no meaning unless it helps you to understand the vast expanse of life with all its subtleties; with its extraordinary beauty, its sorrows...
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Enjoy spelling!
Remediana Dias When I started teaching 10 years ago, the teaching and learning of spelling could hardly be described as a joyous activity. I would choose words from the textbook and write them on the...
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Forum
Treating children with dignity I would like to thank Zenobia N. Lakdawalla for sharing her experience in ‘We learn from mistakes’ (Notes from a teacher’s diary, March 2010). In her situation, it would...
View ArticleIn loco parentis
Schools around the country have reopened after the summer and the new faces in the classroom have already grown familiar. You’ve eased back into the routine of lectures, quizzes, tests, corrections,...
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