Teaching & Learning

First published in The Hindu, 29 June 2024 Most educators would agree that a rounded education should nurture the physical, emotional, social and linguistic domains. While most theories of child development embrace these four realms, the spiritual dimension is rarely…

Like many high school teachers, Parul Mathur was confronted by a group of passive and inattentive learners in her Psychology class. Keen to get them to be more active and enthused, Mathur first tried using mind maps to help students…

First published in The Hindu, 27 May 2024 When I was a doctoral student in the United States, I had a friend, who, like me, was from India. Though I struggled initially, I started calling my professors by their first…

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…