“Thank god schools have resumed, and we hope this year there are no breaks with the physical routines because I simply cannot cope with 2 young children at home. And I need to get my life back on track!” “I feel like I have let me kids down because I was overwhelmed with the responsibility. […]
The gradual ‘normalisation’ of school hours for a large majority of national and international schools has been a welcome sign for the community at large including managements, principals and most of all, the teachers, who now can address the learning lags seamlessly (in-person conclusively aids effective understanding of concepts, even clarifications for what students have […]
Fun, fair and fearless assessments 1. Cookies and conversations: Arranging for a virtual cookies and conversations session between 2 to 3 children led by the teacher talking about different situations, likes, dislikes, holidays, emotions. A great way to check on children’s language and socio-emotional skills! 2. Scrapbook and presentation: Getting children to build their own scrapbook throughout the quarter by […]
Sunday afternoon got educators from across the country together – North, South, East and West as one voice, #SaveOurSchools. This mind you took only a matter of minutes to form a common group of like minded educators and parents only days ago, and one virtual meeting on Saturday (these days, in the education space anything […]
A friend who has no children (not out of choice mind you!), a very successful entrepreneur whose worked globally contributing to the efforts of several relief organisations for children very candidly asked me yesterday about the hue and cry about ‘education and fees’. What’s the real narrative she asked me, because according to her (from […]
Through the numerous online discussions, it is evident that flexibility and acceptance of changing variables is non negotiable and perhaps a more ‘healthy’ way to approach processes in the next few months. Resistance and ‘wanting’ it back like it was is delaying what will eventually happen, so you might as well focus on what can […]
A child’s progress – the child’s learning story in a school as she/he progresses from one grade to another is often defined by a report card that documents the child’s ‘performance’ evaluated year on year. Different pedagogical approaches offer a variety of strategies to assess the learning outcomes and skills-check. The lockdown times and its […]
The past few weeks have been extremely anxious moments spent by those in the education industry – be it owners of schools, principals, parents and teachers as everything they attempted to channelise landing up as a discussion points in courts – well, in some states!! Waiting for verdicts, contesting them and getting decision makers to […]
We all agree that with every generation passing, the new ones that are coming in are a bunch of restless souls. Restless and eager for more, toddlers are brighter, eager to run before they can walk, kids are sharper, curious and have plethora of questions and teens are raging with growth hormones at an age […]
As an educator, I have always valued the advantages that technology brings but I will admit that for the longest time, many of us only spoke about it during educational conferences, discussing about a “volatile” world with many disruptions, ‘VUCA’ as we called it! It was a given that embracing technology and using it as […]