Teachers are the pillars of a school. They must be supported and mentored to inspire students to seek higher, wider and deeper. The principal or the school head and managements play a significant role in how teachers perceive themselves and…
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Teachers are the pillars of a school. They must be supported and mentored to inspire students to seek higher, wider and deeper. The principal or the school head and managements play a significant role in how teachers perceive themselves and…
First published in The Hindu, 30 Mar 2024 You have a one-hour commute to college. As you find it hard to read in a moving vehicle, you opt for an audiobook. But instead of a novel, you decide to plough…
First published in DH Education, 27 March 2024 With the academic year-end in sight, teachers will have their hands full gradingassignments, exams, and projects. While grades and marks provide an index of how astudent has fared overall in a subject,…
First published in Teacher Plus, March 2024 On your way to school, an aggressive driver curses you and overtakes your car. As you reach the school gates, a parent is yelling at a child for having forgotten his science project….
Though we may associate mindfulness, as practiced traditionally, with sages meditating in caves and forests, the construct, and more importantly, its practice, has a lot of relevance to modern lives. At its core, mindfulness is how we choose to practice…
First published in Teacher Plus, Jan 2024 Helping children become literate and numerate and building a robust conceptual foundation in various subjects are the main goals of education. While these aims should continue to be emphasized, a comprehensive education also…
As an increasing number of schools are more accepting of the idea of inclusion and embrace this ideal, at least in spirit, if not entirely in practice, it is evident that the tide is shifting, albeit gradually. While inclusion, as…
First published in The Hindu, 2 Dec 2023 Most high-stakes exams are a race against the clock. The rapidity with which you answer a series of challenging questions is often the differentiator between those who make the cut and those…
Who am I? In what ways am I changing? Am I growing into the person I would like to become? As teachers we need to periodically check in with ourselves, plumbing our inner selves, to understand who we are. Because…
That human beings have an innate drive to seek and learn is evident when we leave babies to their own devices. That they utilize their five senses to explore and understand the world is obvious when we give a supine…
Aruna Sankaranarayanan is the author of Zero Limits: Things Every 20 Something Should Know. She was the Founder & Director of PRAYATNA, a centre for children with learning difficulties in Bengaluru & Chennai for 22 years.