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When we feel empowered, we empower our students!

When I read this honest feeling of a student for his teacher, I felt ‘belief‘ can be such a positive driving force, for not only a student, but each one of us. 

The fact that someone ‘believes’ in us, ‘believes‘ in our potential, in what we do and what we can do, is such a positive reinforcement. ‘Belief’ can have such a transformative effect on children..

One question that I often find recurring in every parent’s mind is “What is my child going to become when he grows up?” I often find parents discussing this as early as elementary school, or perhaps even earlier. And the second in continuation is usually “What should be the best university my child needs to aspire for?” The list doesn’t end here, and soon enough, the next dilemma strikes in &ldqu..

As educationists we need to take a pragmatic look at how we are approaching teaching at primary level in our country as a whole. Undoubtedly, on a mass scale we are still battling to give our children the basic skills of numeracy, reading and writing. However, children who aren’t first generation learners may need a more modern and holistic approach towards fulfilling their curricular ..

It is an old established principle, that when children are given the freedom of choice to learn from the world around them, their magic and wonder remains alive. Parenting today is definitely one of the most daunting tasks, especially when there is cut throat competition for every spot on earth. However, I somehow feel that we have complicated this further by thrusting our own desires and expectations on children. This style of parenting is very evident today, and more so in the 21st Century ..

When one comes across statistics released by various world organisations as well as industry leaders expressing concerns over the rate of unemployable youth, graduating from institutions every year, it is enough to set the ball rolling to reinvent our education system. The way we are educating our children right from early childhood to university levels needs a serious overhaul to match the requirements of the 21st Century. Several think tanks and stake holders at every level are brainstormin..

Inclusion of the Arts in STEM has not just helped it get a new nomenclature ‘STEAM’ but has resulted in a more evolved learning methodology in many ways:

1. Making learning impactful, deeper and more holistic: If we..

Our childhood experiences, actions and interactions build our perceptions. The way we look at ourselves, people and situations define our choices and behaviours all through our learning process. Social structures have been observed to play a critical role in every aspect of a child’s learning and it is very important that we create opportunities for children to use their social interactions as learning opportunities. Group projects and activities play a significant..

Each child has an explorer within who is itching to get hold of anything and everything that meets the eye. Every nook and corner of our homes can be powerful learning centres waiting to be dismantled by the explorer residing within each child. It is amazing how the environment around us can be a perfect lab that can generously provide potential bricks for organic learning in our children. Almost all the issues that we face in our structured education system like br..

We’ve all experienced how words have the power to make or break our world. As adults when we start an introspection journey and get on a course of self healing, one realises how our childhood memories left their mark on our psyche, which then surfaced in our adult life. When I revisited my childhood, I too realised how there was lots lying inside to clean and heal. This gave me a deep insight how during the course of growing up, verbal and non verbal interactions with the outside world ..

Studies and research has shown how attitudes and beliefs play such an important role in the solution oriented ecosystem needed in the 21st Century. We cannot overlook the power that Creative problem solving projects hold in building skills and muscle for thought and conceptualisation. Multiple layers of learning can be seamlessly built within a typical problem solving project, which can stretch beyond just the curricular ones and can exten..