Teaching & Learning

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…

First published in Teacher Plus, Sept 2023 This issue of Teacher Plus emphasizes the importance of being part of professional associations so that you may update and upskill yourself with the latest research, pedagogic theories, and practices. While formal associations…

An emotionally intelligent school is where every stakeholder, the children, teachers, non-teaching staff, and the management engage in daily mindfulness practices. The recent events of teachers thrashing students and egging other students to beat a child from Kathua in Jammu…