pedagogy

Muktangan: A Community-Based Education Model for Public Schools

March 29, 2024

The teaching-learning process emphasises the role of children in actively constructing their own learnings and concepts. Rooted in this strong belief, their educational philosophy is supported by a learning environment where children are supported to construct their own learning and feel free to share their ideas, thoughts, and expressions.

A Sense of Surroundings: Lesson on Maps (Maths, Class V)

August 9, 2022

Visualisation is an essential skill that needs to be developed in students. Without it, imagination and ideas cannot flourish. Lessons like this one are included so that visualisation skills can be developed but are mostly ignored in the teaching. These lessons can be taught through interesting activities to make the class and the teaching equally enjoyable. The activity used in this lesson included gross motor, fine motor and psychomotor skills that also help teachers to better understand their students.

Contextual, Participatory Pedagogy: My Experiences in Teaching Economics

May 16, 2022

Drawing from their social contexts entails, among other things, making use of their colloquial parlances and spatial familiarities. Their learning should, hence, evolve into knowing and feeling, and not be confined to information only. Arousal of ‘feeling’ is for me the first step towards building a communal classroom. The next aspect to think of is classroom readiness, that is, to adopt flexible methods and not strict adherence to a standardized, fixed style of teaching.

Designing a Teacher Capacity-Building Program for EVS

July 20, 2021

In terms of the larger insights and learning, this course gave a big picture of EVS to teachers. They could see the importance of taking children out and using the outdoor environment as an effective approach for developing appropriate EVS skills and sensitivities.

Sovereignty, Pleasure, Illusion and Play (Part II)

July 8, 2021

We need not give up on the formal spaces though. Play, like creativity, is a commodity which is required also to sustain the state and market. We can indeed find ways of incorporating playfulness in developing the curriculum. For example, ‘what if’ discussions which seek to imagine a world in which some norm is broken – what if I were the king or what if adding two and two makes five and five and five make seven?

Sovereignty, Pleasure, Illusion and Play (Part I)

June 22, 2021

Play is a purposeless activity, engaged in freedom, pleasure and a creative mood. It creates an illusory world in which familiar objects and persons assume new meanings and roles. In being purposeless and illusory, it is beyond logical and moral judgements.

Teaching Mathematics as a Learning Experience: A Bottom-up Approach

September 22, 2020

I used the pile of notebooks lying in the room to establish the same point for the ones who might not have understood. The time invested was more than what I would have done if I were a regular teacher but the outcome was that the girl who had earlier said that she dislikes mathematics, answered my recapitulation question, ‘why do we learn multiplication’ by saying that ‘it helps us add easily’.

Science Brought Alive in the Classroom

September 9, 2020

In both the classes that I observed, I noticed that Mithun was acting mostly as a guide and facilitator, rather than as a sage dispensing knowledge. The lessons were embedded into the context of the students, built around the life of students and the environment in which they played around and lived. He says that he strives to make all concepts as concrete and as visual as possible for the students.

A Primary School Teacher Who Wears Many Hats

May 4, 2020

Ms Khan has been a teacher for over 20 years now. That she is passionate about her profession would be an understatement considering her complete dedication to her work. She has been posted in the same school for more than 11 years and has spent every moment thinking about ways of helping her students learn better.

A Teacher Transformed Through Training

April 20, 2020

It is the marriage of internal dispositions and external factors that contribute to the making of a teacher. From Ms Gayatri’s example, we can see just how important a role training can play, and that has important implications on the role of teacher training.

Teacher as the Epicentre for Change

April 13, 2020

Headteacher Joshi’s enthusiasm is not limited to the school. She actively engages with the community. During the summer holidays, she conducts summer camps for children with activities such as painting, dancing and play.

Extending residential facility to Lamani children

July 23, 2019

Lambani tribe when they migrate for work, take their children along which leads to the children being out of school for almost six months.

Providing Quality Education to Children of Migrant Labourers

July 11, 2019

It is the only Hindi medium government school in the state. It is interesting to understand how this school is still running for so many years.

Bringing Child Labourers to School

June 26, 2019

Sukanya teacher meets brick kiln owners and parents of the children working there to motivate them to send the children to school.

Realizing a Dream

June 18, 2019

Results of Raman Gouda’s efforts are reflected in the children’s learning. At grade II, children can read and write in Kannada which is not the case with the children going to the private schools.

Leading to achieve the promise of education for all

May 29, 2019

Given that Karnataka has the highest school drop-out rate among the Muslims, Murthy’s vision that, ‘All children from the Muslim community will be able to read, write and speak the Kannada language,’ is sagacious.

A Resourceful Science Teacher

May 22, 2019

Learning beyond the classroom can, literally, be seen everywhere on the school premises. The school has put up learning resources for students in all possible spaces.

Every child can learn

April 29, 2019

Science teacher Veerayya began to reflect on the possibility of making his classes more interesting by letting children experiment. He began to realize that experiments and activities would make the children ask questions; learn and draw inferences from their own explorations.

The Teacher as a change agent

April 22, 2019

It was decided that after school hours, the classrooms would be used for lodging; breakfast and supper would be cooked in the school … Read how a teacher intervened to stop children from migrating.

Combating child marriage, securing girls’ education

April 4, 2019

Prakash has played a key role in supporting girls’ education. The practice of child marriage persists even today in and around the Koppal area, in a direct violation of human rights.

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