e-Auzaar – Vocaroo : A simple online audio resource creator for teachers
Partha Ghosh Savita ma’am is an English teacher at a Govt. school. She is concerned about the poor reading and listening skills of her students. As a solution to this problem, she wondered if she could record the stories and poems from the syllabus in her own voice...
Book Review: Understanding speaking anxiety and coping mechanisms
Dr. Neha Singh Communication is said to be the most challenging skill to master. We consider language programs successful when a learner can communicate effectively in the target language. Communicating in the second language (a language not known to you) let's call...
How to make the most of this digital opportunity?
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Teachers: Designers of the future
We are all designers. From a space scientist to a person working in the field; from an architect working on a new bridge to a teacher preparing to take a class, we all make plans, consider various possibilities and constraints, take into consideration the availability...
Panch Ratan of our Farms
Applies to: Subject Iconic Practitioners Overview Have you ever wondered, from where do we get the fruits, vegetables, crops and flowers we see around us? From our Nature, you would say. But is there someone who is growing, cultivating them for us? In your science...
Evolution of Calendars
Applies to: Subject Exploring a topic in depth Overview As we prepare ourselves to welcome the coming year with all the learnings from the year that has gone, we are filled with wonderment about how we have devised the various systems of tracking time. One of these...
Teaching Nature Of Science to students of Class 3 to 5
Applies to: Subject: Science Overview What exactly is science, what does it aspire to do, and why should we, the people, care? It seems like a simple question, but it’s an infinitely complex one. We, in our previous issue, had talked about what science is in the light...
Simulator
Applies to: Subject Chemistry Overview We often hear about the term simulation program, simulation software or a simulator. What is a simulator and why is it used? A simulator is a computer program that helps in imitating the real-world actions. Teachers do not have...
The Number Game
Applies to: Subject: Mathematics Overview Do birds know how to count, Ma’am? This question by a child of class 8 triggered my thoughts on ‘number sense’. This led to an interesting class session which I wish to share here with the fellow teachers. The basic...
Wandering Magnetic North Pole
Applies to: Subject: Physics Overview Every year we celebrate February 28 as the National Science Day in India to commemorate the discovery of Raman Effect, which led the Indian scientist Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930. The...