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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Ever since we opened up the new library space earlier this academic year, we have been trying to do little acts of curation in the library. Every few weeks we put together a book display in the library to make books more exciting and appealing for students. Curated book displays allow children to discover, sample…
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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 learnt the power and magic of art, especially paintings, quite late in life. I was in my Masters’ program when I met one of the most important teachers in my life. He was a professor of English literature who taught us plays by Shakespeare and poetry by William Blake using paintings. Every lecture was…
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