“Tell me and I forget Teach me and I remember Involve me and I learn.” -Benjamin Franklin Making Oral assessments conducting an English oral assessments during online classes seemed like a daunting task. I wanted to move away from traditional oral assessment tasks like reciting a poem or reading a passage. I wanted to do…
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Exploring diversity through the Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat Initiative. The academic year 2020 will go down in history as one of the most challenging years of our times. Being literally locked down in our own houses, called for some innovative approaches to keep ourselves afloat on the course of learning . Everyday a new strategy of…
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Five ‘W’s And a H’ – A way to turn ON the students THINKING HATSAny discovery, invention or interpretation is the outcome of one’s inquisitive mind that adopts an analytic approach. It is a known fact that analytical approaches always lead to a clear and accurate understanding of concepts. Talking about inquisitive minds, I must…
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As the Covid-19 Pandemic took the world by storm, in a flash we moved from Real to Virtual Learning, from teaching in a school classroom to teaching in a Zoom classroom. My experience of teaching online was initially challenging, but later it became stronger with practice and professional development support extended by the school management. As I…
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In my case, it was more challenging as I teach Grade 1 And they were stepping into the primary section for the first time. I was also concerned if they would be able to sit with concentration even for 30 minutes in front of a screen. My experience as a teacher during this pandemic was…
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We invited two students from std. 5 to share their experience of online classes during this global pandemic. At the end of the First Term of Virtual School, here they share their honest and candid opinion. By Priyal Shah | Std. V B During the lockdown, I had been wondering when my school would reopen.…
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Between July and August 2020, as students and teachers settled into a new routine of online classes and video lectures due to the pandemic, it was important to keep talking about our worries, anxieties and feelings. Conducting virtual classes has been a challenging and trying task for teachers who have also had to multitask and…
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Last month when std. VIII was going to do a unit on similes and metaphors we came across amazing work done by the Magic Key Centre for Arts. Inspired by one of the ideas shown in the video we tried to design a similar activity for our students. READ MORE Like LockDown Diaries Here are…
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Fun with Circles: Std. IV Mathematics Last week I taught my std. four students, concepts related to a circle. My objective was for children to identify and name the different parts of a circle, namely, radius, diameter, chord, arc and circumference. The pandemic has forced us to become more creative teachers. We are constantly thinking…
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The Alchemy of Nature: Reading for Meaning Prose texts are often taught in rigid and boring ways. The teacher reads out the text, she reads it again and then explains each paragraph in great detail in the hope that students ‘understand’ it. What we don’t teach children is that the meaning of a story, poem…
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