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insights gathered on the way in my life...
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every now and then there seems to be a sense of suffocation and a need to create space for myself to expand. to grow..there is boredom with existing circumstances and a need to find another dimension of thought and way of life. to break some boundaries Read More...
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is education a business and children clients? the school management is soft on children and hard on teachers. children are clients...we are dispensable... the children do not wish to study. they have unconditional admissions in universities abroad that Read More...
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where do i run...?! it follows me all over. this sense of emptiness that nothing fills. material objects, recognition at work..all comes and then fails. i achieve and get recognised for it, and then it comes back! then i achieve again, set new horizons, Read More...
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"take ownership of the school". is this not what we hear so often in the school from the principals? this is my take on it: i can take ownership of the place and all the challenges that it offers. but only if i feel empowered as a human being, as a teacher. Read More...
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when you govern with fear, it is like Euripides's sword hanging on the head all the time! "who can i trust" "who is informing?" "was this task done fine?" in this atmosphere of doubt and suspicion, can i stand on the truth of my being and operate from Read More...
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i am doing client service. children are revenue and teachers are expenses. parents are clients that have to be pleased so they get good business for the company. the more the better, for profits have to roll in... so please the children. demand from the Read More...
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i think leaders in an institution ought to be human resource managers also! empathetic, nurturing and encouraging. instead, we find critiques and judges! Read More...
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i think, no matter how creative the work is in a classroom, so long as we are in an exam set up, we are still dancing in a 4 x 4 small cell. the destruction through the exam set up turns every free flowing educative work to a limited problem solving work. Read More...
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end of the syllabus and exams in a month's time! i wanted to get away from the rigmarole of the usual revision. so i asked the students of grade 6 - 'would you like to teach'? "me, me, me..." they all chirped. we made a schedule and put it up on the wall. Read More...
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PROJECT – CREATING A MATH MAGAZINE FOR SALE This is a classic example of a project through which a girl, having found her niche, also found her relation with the subject. It is her magazine that is attached. She came to my class very scared of math. So Read More...
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i have a HOD and a principal both of who do not wish to talk to each other! i report to both...and often have to run from one to the other. i am gaining wisdom on the ancient saying - 'when elephants fight'. Read More...
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IB SL studies group! is there anything more challenging to teach...? a group of completely disinterested children who often wonder what the use of math is to their lives; and if there is none, why do thay have to enter this torture chamber 3 times a week Read More...
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are the IB studies students all over de motivated as i find them here? in math? they sit with sullen sulky expressions as if the world's torture chamber has opened for them in the form of a math class!
and now we have to start work on projects, and no deadlines are met!
monica
india
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end of the year, 1 of the things i do is take a detailed feedback from my students on the work done the whole year and the class management by me. i have found over the years that the best feedbacks come from the students! they are merciless, honest, Read More...
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it is a student of mine that started me off on poetry... he was brilliant at math and at poetry too! i was good at math teaching and wanting to write poems. but i would wonder, 'is this poetry, what i write?!' then i spoke to him once and he said, 'just Read More...
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