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Teaching research skills
Kathan Shukla Science teachers of India have among of the toughest challenges in today’s times. Let me explain: At the World Economic Forum-2011 in Davos, almost all of the eminent economists appeared...
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The art of seeing
Aditi Mathur and Ratnesh Mathur “The question is not what you look at but what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau How do you see the world around you? Or, more specifically what do you see ‘in’ the world...
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Science sans the teacher
Sonali Bhatia Want to teach preschoolers science? Well, first, learn how to make yourself scarce! Yes, that’s right. Preschool science is best taught by a teacher who knows when NOT to intervene....
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In the days before Multiple Natures
Steven Rudolph As the Multiple Natures (MN) Theory enters its third year, I spent some time reflecting today on what life was like before it existed. Doing so was like imagining what life was like...
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Through the gender lens
Indumathi S Do boys and girls of the same class receive different education? The following is a small part of the interaction between teachers and students of class seven. It is a physics lesson on...
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Learning in context
Lalitha Krishnamurthy It was late evening when I walked down the hills from Kempty town, near Mussoorie, Uttaranchal. I stopped to watch a movement in the bushes, and also to take in as much of the...
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Talking about tolerance
Chintan Girish Modi This website is a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit civil rights organization based in Montgomery, USA. However, many of the classroom activities, lesson...
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Explore, observe and learn
Gunvant Jain Some of the best teaching approaches like Constructivist Theory and Learning by Doing are based on a relatively unknown and grossly underestimated concept, Nai Talim – The Gandhian Way of...
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Eco-friendly activities for Diwali
Seetha Anand Vaidyam With so much talk about global warming, we need to be ecologically conscious in whatever we do. This festive season, let us see how we can fit in activities that are appropriate...
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Taking time off
We’ve often written about the need to make space in our lives for the things we enjoy doing, the things that do not have an obvious “ROI” (return on investment), the things that in fact take us away...
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