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Teaching a foreign language
Manaswini Sridhar I teach a foreign language for Class 8 – German to be more precise. There are 20 students in my class. Considering the number in the other subjects, it is certainly a smaller group....
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A buffet of choices for children
Aditi Mathur and Ratnesh Mathur First, let’s turn back a few pages of our lives and think about our children or even ourselves when we were toddlers. How did we learn a complete language – our mother...
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Seven steps to be an effective teacher
The seven step process is a methodology of facilitating learning in a classroom. It is a process of teaching concepts which gives students ample scope for experiencing and questioning while connecting...
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Gender equality in the classroom
Aparna Rayaprol 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...
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How I became a social entrepreneur
Pooja Vijay “Entrepreneurship” is a word that is being tossed around a lot these days in our college. The concept sounded exciting, so I decided to join the college E-cell. Funnily enough, the E-cell...
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Sea change – all in a decade!
Vasanthi Vasudev In a little over a decade everything has changed! School management skills have transformed from those of a trapeze artist to a pole-vaulting gymnast. If ten years ago principals were...
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Honouring the guru
Chemistry was not among Apoorva’s favourite subjects. Although she was an easy learner she found chemistry classes dull and boring. The subject never caught her attention and scoring decent marks in...
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Steven Rudolph Over the past few months, I have been amazed at the number of companies moving into the space of career guidance and training. From large multi-crore business houses with aggressive...
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As addictive as chocolate
Aruna Sankaranarayanan The first Book Club meeting at Bal Vihar School begins with the teacher reading an excerpt from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In order to get children to empathize with poor...
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Understanding Sanskrit
Zhelum Inamdar Swati’s parents were frantic. And so was Swati! It was nearly the end of January and the tenth standard board exams were barely two months away! Swati had scored 42 out of 100 in...
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