Teaching & Learning

CBSE is introducing 110 hours of practical, project-based training for students in middle school across three broad domains—life forms, machines, materials and human services from the next academic year. Kaushal Bodh, the vocational education activity.

Even as schools actively champion reading in students, do they nurture reading in teachers? What are the reading habits of teachers? A broader definition of reading For Madhu Prakash, the Academic Coordinator, Crayon Preschool, reading is a “stress…

First published in The Hindu, 31 Jan 2026 For better and worse, AI is upending education. While bots can accelerate and enhance learning, they can also supplant deep engagement and reflection. How can educators help students reap the pluses of…

I teach in a continuing education program for teachers, where some of the assignments involve group work. While most participants work amicably with one another, there is a sizable minority that puts their individual self over the group’s interest. Further,…

While there is no one right way to journal, this practice can be beneficial for educators, as it is meditative, cathartic, and can also provide a record of events. For Triveni Nagaraj, journaling was a way of life even before…

First published in The Hindu, 30 Nov 2025 Even before digital devices fragmented attention spans, teachers exhorted students to “Pay attention.” When I was in school, in the seventies and eighties, teachers would use this phrase, sometimes banging on a…

As I transitioned from kindergarten to first grade, I remember being very excited by my Hindi textbook at the end of the summer vacation as my mother covered each book with brown paper. Though I could not decipher a single…

So far, in this column, I have covered curiosity, creativity, compassion, composure, communication, ecological consciousness, and responsible citizenship. That’s a total of seven skills or competencies that are not given adequate emphasis by most mainstream schools. Though this column is…

First published  in The Hindu, 5 July 2025 You wince at the set of differential equations you need to solve. You barely understand the topic, and you have to plough through a whole page of them. You are tempted to…