Guest Articles

I always ask this question to myself: “Why do people not like Mathematics?” I see a lot of children struggle with learning mathematics and usually feel bored, nervous or are unable to grasp basic concepts of the subject. The anxiety or…
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Changing leadership design during COVID-19 School leadership is a complicated and demanding role. Navigating change during tough times brings added challenges; and increasingly difficult decisions are to be taken. During Covid-19 pandemic,…
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Why did you enter the teaching profession? Perhaps you were inspired by an incredible teacher and wanted to make the same kind of positive impact on others. Or, it may be that the reverse is true for you. One of our most fundamental…
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As we celebrated National Girl Child Day in India on 24 January, idea of gender equality loomed large in my mind – As educationists, are we doing justice to this topic or are we faltering somewhere? Questions like these troubled me. The…
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Self-efficacy is commonly defined as the belief in one's capabilities to achieve a goal or an outcome. Students with a strong sense of efficacy are more likely to challenge themselves with challenging tasks and be intrinsically motivated.…
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Imagine pouring water into a glass. The only problem is that this glass has holes at the bottom. You keep pouring water into the glass and the water keeps leaking out. This is exactly how we are taught at most of our schools. We are…
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“Maths is one of the most exciting subjects in school.” You could walk into any classroom in any school, make this statement, and observe the majority of students’ expressions turn into disbelief and scepticism. Who do we blame here for…
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Do your students feel shy or uncomfortable to turn their cameras on? If yes, ever wondered why? There can be several reasons for it. Some, which come to my mind, are: Some learners don’t want to get captured/ recorded They may…
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I remember the nervous mornings going to school with my mother to meet my school teachers every quarter for the dreaded PTM. The PTM or the parent teacher meeting is an old practice of informing parents about the child’s progress. Usually,…
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Nowadays, children are exposed to gadgets at a very early age. So, pretending that they won’t be exposed to social media until parents decide, isn’t realistic. It’s thus best for parents to introduce their children to social media, writes …
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It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that parenting is toughest when a child enters its teens. Parents are often at a loss to understand how to deal with them. In this article, Sheetal Sharma tries to simplify the difficulty by presenting…
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“There are no refunds: learners cannot get their time back if we waste it” - Michael Allen Due to Covid-19, schools have closed for the benefit of their students, teachers and their families but this doesn’t mean a stop to learning…
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It’s not easy being a student today when there is pressure of professional success along with a necessity of gaining an ability to deal with volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) environment. But all the more difficult is to be…
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‘Space is hard, no success without failure’, the famous science communicator Neil De Grasse Tyson commented after the Vikram lander stopped communicating. All of India was waiting with a high level of excitement for the climax of…
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What does it mean to be a patriotic? Is singing songs on Independence Day the only way to express our nationalism? Anju Gupta in this poem says that if we truly love our nation, we need to put our 'patriotism in action'. Patriotism and…
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As a middle school teacher, I have real concerns about the ways technology is used in the classroom and the effects it’s having on students. That does not make me a technophobe. I use technology in my everyday life and in many ways…
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Career Focus: Policy Making Think of change, think of change makers. India is one of the largest democracies in the world and boasts of a young demographic dividend that is consistently taking more active part in addressing the…
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Home assignments and different projects given to learners at their schools have been a source of debate in the modern world. With both the parents working, either there’s an opposition to this system due to lack of time with parents or they…
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