Nivedita Vijay Bedadur
Critical pedagogy is a curriculum where children examine social inequities and injustices. How can teachers begin a discourse around it in the classroom? This article looks at a few ways in which a teacher can practice this with her students.
Category: Continuing Education
Mathematical knowticing that informs practice
Shikha Takker
A good teacher continues to learn and grow in her profession. And this she can do not just by attending workshops and refresher courses but by being alert and attentive in her very own classroom and knowticing her students and learning from them how to teach them better.
Team teaching: a true account
Neeraja Raghavan
What happens when two teachers team up to teach a subject together? Is this kind of collaboration even possible? What about the dynamics between the two teachers? Here is an amazing true account of a rare collaboration and how their boundaries and roles unfolded as their work progressed.
Digging into the past: Exploring history to teach science
Indumathy.S.
A quick exploration of science books shows that there are several laws, principles and definitions that students learn
by rote. Most of these concepts are abstract in nature and one wonders how they originated. Tracing the history of the concepts makes for interesting learning. The concept of photosynthesis was explored at a workshop conducted by the Azim Premji Foundation. This article explains how this could work out in classroom teaching.
Learning to teach, the Finnish way
Ardra Balachandran
Finland, a country that ranks at the top in every educational survey. Surely the Finnish must be doing something right to take the top spots every time. This is why Chrysalis, an education research and innovation organization, decided to organize for teachers from across India, annual trips to Finland to observe and learn from a more successful educational system.
A learning trip for teachers
Jitu Mishra
A two-day field trip for primary school teachers to Dholavira to help them teach and learn social studies turned out to be an engaging and exciting experience. The teachers gained deeper insights into the concepts that they taught and they were also able to appreciate the holistic nature of social studies.
Making workshops work
Sonali Bhatia
Workshops are important for teachers because for that duration when teachers become learners, they are reminded of their purpose for teaching. By attending workshops and learning new things teachers become better at what they are already good at.
Ensuring continuing competence
Ravinarayan Chakrakodi
A look at why it is important for teachers to share good practices, ask questions, understand the problems that other teachers face and develop new insights into their own teaching.
A learning club for teachers
Amol Padwad & Krishna Dixit
Instead of sitting and complaining about poor professional development for teachers, a group of teachers decided to form teachers clubs where teachers could meet, discuss, and improve their skill.
Growing teachers in our school
Changes are taking place all around in the field of education. Students are getting smarter, their needs too are changing. Therefore it is extremely important that teachers too keep pace with these changes. Professional courses meant especially for teachers will help in this regard. In the first article in this series, we provide a list of professional courses that teachers can apply to to inspire themselves.