Does it matter to ask well articulated questions? If yes, how does one know whether the questions are effective and are in the best interest of our students? These were the questions that had popped in my mind at the time when I was struggling in the class to get my students to understand and…
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How many of us know that practicing a language one likes is not a crime? Or, for that matter we as an individual have the right to chance upon any opportunity that might result in the betterment of our life? The possibility of getting the responses for the above questions will be in 50-50 which…
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Here, I would like to share one strategy that I recently used to teach a prose text named – Unke Munke Timpetoo, from the grade 7 Balbharati text. This strategy is called The Five-S Prose Strategy. The aim of teaching language as a subject is to enable the students to be proficient in skills like…
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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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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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