As an English teacher, I always found poems very fascinating at a personal level but when it comes to doing it with students, I have had a tough time in designing strategies to teach poems to the students because unlike prose, poems are not self-explanatory. It is a form of literature wherein ideas are presented…
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In September 2018, we received a surprise via email. A teacher from a school in Belgium wrote to us expressing interest to collaborate on a virtual exchange program for students. This sounded exciting. Soon after, the teacher from Institut Notre-Dame, Arlon, (INDA) and a teacher from Sharon School, Mulund, talked and chalked out a plan…
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I had to teach an EVS lesson, “Historic Period” to my std. V students in the last month of the second term. As this was an information heavy lesson, I felt compelled to make it more interesting for students. I knew that students’ involvement would make it more interactive and they’d be more interested to…
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I was sitting in the bus, looking out of the window and admiring the scenery outside. I turned to look at our bus from the inside. All the students looked utterly exhausted. And why would they not? The two-day Scouts and Guides Camp organized for std. IX students was enough to make everyone tired. Thinking…
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Someone has rightly said, ‘If a person has not discovered something that he/she will die for, he isn’t fit to live’. An experience about something or the other in a person’s life can bring in lots of changes in his/her daily outlook towards it, this opportunity was experienced by me and my fellow colleagues when…
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It’s a Saturday. The last bell has just gone off and I hear students descending the staircase. I have my fingers crossed – will anyone come to exchange a book today? It has been four months since I started issuing storybooks in a systematic way through the library. A few minutes lapse and there’s no…
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After attending teacher workshops by CEQUE and The Teacher Foundation regarding different teaching strategies, my way of teaching has changed to a large extent. I understood the impact of collaborative learning and activity in the classroom. I can see my student’s involvement and active participation in class which often leaves me pleasantly surprised and astonished.…
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Heraclitus had once rightly said, “The only constant in life is change.” No sphere of life has remained untouched by change and so does our education system. The transition from rote and teacher oriented learning to children oriented learning is a testimony of the rising standard of our education system. Being a teacher I personally…
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Birth of a story was an exhibition organized for std. VI on 6th of October, 2018 at Sharon English High School. This exhibition was one of its kinds as the exhibits were the work of the std. VI students, showing various steps involved in creating an interesting story. It is said that behind every successful…
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After attending seminars by The Teacher Foundation on active learning, I felt motivated to use the think, pair and share strategy in my classroom. I also started introducing some graphic organizers in my classroom teaching because it allows the students to think as they fill in the visual diagram. The link between the verbal and…
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