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Creativity in Education

It not only implies an original approach towards tackling the same old lessons on the part of the teacher but also an attempt to foster and stimulate the natural inborn creativity that every child possesses and which often dies a slow death on exposure to the stultifying routine school generally means.

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The Tantrum Girl

Building a rapport with a thunder and lightning three-year-old is not easy - but it is not impossible either, for a teacher.

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Do You Know Your Students?

Text book answers elicit the best marks, whereas creative thinking and unique responses are downgraded in most schools, even the so-called ‘enlightened’ ones.

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Namma Bhoomi for Working Children

A school in Udipi, Karnataka, is creating a synergy between the two worlds of modern education and traditional community skills.

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Making Friends for Life

A young teacher recounts her memories of a special relationship with a student, which started off lukewarm but blossomed into a close bond.

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The Language of a Child

Children's use of language is closely related to the things they do with their hands and bodies and the objects they come in contact with. Words and action go together in childhood, writes eminent educationist, Professor Krishna Kumar.

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Checklists for Children's Science Activities

Educationists Wynne Harlen and Jos Elstgeest provide a means of self-evaluation for primary school teachers. They present three check-lists relating to children's science activities, their way of engaging with the activities, and the teacher's actions and interaction with the children.

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Encouraging and Handling Children's Questions

We all ask questions when we want to know something, or when we are puzzled. Children’s questions are no different; they indicate what the children have already understood and what more they want to know.

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Technology in Primary Classrooms

Primary teachers often feel there is very little they can do to integrate technology into their curriculum. This is absolutely not the case, says VaReane Heese, a teacher in the US.

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Divaswapna

A young and enthusiastic school teacher wants to try out his novel method of teaching. The first day he enters the classroom, he finds the boys smiling, winking and staring back at him in mock wonder. Things soon changed...

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Primary Students on the Web

When our district was considering a technology adoption, one school board member was definitely for the purchase of computers, but against placing anything but the older equipment at the primary level, recounts VaReane Heese, a teacher in the US.

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Finding Happiness in a Hot Classroom

A teacher enters a classroom full of drooping children. And then, together they create magic.

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Learning to Teach

An insight into the Bachelor of Elementary Education course at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi.

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