Education

The whole child approach to education is defined by policies, practices, and relationships that ensure each child, in each school, in each community, is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. It engages all stakeholders -…

We often say today’s children are tomorrow’s future. Hence, it is our responsibility to give them the most for a better and healthier tomorrow. A child is a like a bud which needs a lot of care and nourishment for it to bloom into a…

Emerging out of the sea of exercise books dumped on the work desk at school –‘correcting’ the grammatical, structural or conceptual errors that inadvertently creep into students’ notebooks and sometimes even rewriting parts of an answer…

Learning disabilities are neurologically based processing problems. They can have extensive influence on an individual’s life in organising, time planning, abstract reasoning, long or short term memory and attention span. The disabilities…

Our educational visit to Finland from 2nd to 4th October 2017 was organised by S Chand & Co in association with the Centre for Continuing Education-University of Helsinki. The objective of the visit was to explore the Finnish Phenomenon…

‘What can we do with a computer?’ I asked in broken Odia. ‘Didi, Typing!’ ‘Photos! Videos!’ ‘Game!’ the students replied. Au Kono (What else)?’ I persisted. A few minutes of silence followed. ‘Didi, Paint?’ a feeble voice offered…

In today’s world, it’s no longer how much you know that matters; what is important is what you can do with what you know. Now, more than ever, life requires students to take what they learn in school and apply it at home, at work, in their…

If history books will ever be rewritten, this age will surely find mention in golden letters. In today’s era of technological advancement, social media is the unrivalled king. It is so vast an ocean that it has engulfed the entire humanity…

‘IF WE TEACH TODAY AS WE TAUGHT YESTERDAY, WE ROB OUR CHILDREN OF TOMORROW.’ –JOHN DEWEY The above line made me think about the current scenario of education and the shift in the role of the teacher and the learner. The learner of today is…

Language development should be a shared responsibility and not only of bilingual and ESL classes. It means that teachers teaching other subjects too can do the needful to improve the language skills wherever it is possible. It is in fact a…