Edu Research & Insights

This Early literacy initiative is by Tata Institute of social science (TISS) Hyderabad. Click to open the page :

     A school is a place where learning takes place, and it happens consciously and subconsciously. During olden days most of the schools used to be situated within the community, Example; even today in many small villages, schools are situated very close to the child’s home. Today as towns and cities have expanded, the schools are no more a part of the community. As schools are no more a part of the community, the concern for their safety is enlarged. A school is a place where a child spends most of his time, and his primary care takers parents are not around him. It is believed that schools, along with academics should take care of child’s safety and well-being.  The child spends a considerable time at school, he has regular interactions with various participants at school such as teachers, peers and non-teaching staff as well. They all have influences on his well-being and safety. As student well-being is critical for the academic achievement and the ch...

Snippets: - For a long time, there's been a perception that failure damages people. - In turn the failure, and making mistakes, is a really crucial part of learning. - One of the big issues is that students are reluctant to display their learning or their knowledge or their curiosity for fear of not being right. - We have bred a generation where it's not OK to get critical feedback. It's not OK to tell someone that they haven't reached a certain standard.  - Melbourne school is embracing failure. The Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School teachers will be projected onto screens in every classroom as the school kicks off Failure Week. Click to read the full story from source:

Snippets: - The expectancy-value model suggests some strategies, most of them pretty intuitive. The value will be higher if  - the book is on a topic the child already loves, or  - if it’s a book that a lot of his peers have read, or  - if it concerns a topic of practical utility to the child.  - The expectation of successful reading will be higher if it’s at the right reading level, - if it includes a lot of pictures (as a graphic novel does),  - if the chapters are short, or  - if the child already knows the story. - By the time kids are in their late teens, average media exposure approaches  11 hours per day . Expectancy value theory is directly linked to uses and gratifications theory. The theory was founded by Martin Fishbein in the 1970s. According to expectancy-value theory, behavior is a function of the expectancies one has and the value of the goal toward which one is working. Click to read from source :

Snippets: - In recent years, cognitive scientists have done much research on how making mistakes help us learn. - One study says that, specific procedures for solving problems, largely ignored errors and praised correct answers. Japanese teachers, by contrast, asked students to find their own way through problems and then led a discussion of common errors, why they might seem plausible and why they were wrong. Praise was rarely given and students were meant to see struggle and setbacks as part of learning. The difference, the authors believed, is one reason that Japanese students outperform in math. - It is important for students to have growth mindset, students will begin to see errors as a path to learning rather than humiliation. When one teacher (teacher in interview) shared students’ errors anonymously with the class, he says, “the kids got really good about saying ‘Hey, that’s my mistake! Let me talk about what I did wrong.’ It was incredible. They...

Snippets : - Can future ready teachers teach students to be designers of problems? - Many education discussions focus on how to best cover the curriculum. But, What we need today?, As there’s so much knowledge available to us all, what we need are teachers who are so inspiring that students go beyond the curriculum to seek out their own knowledge, to add value to the curriculum the teacher taught them. - kids can learn a lot from being helpful with the guidance of a creative teacher. Click to read from source :

- Want to teach your kids self-control? Learn from a Cameroonian farmer. -  The researchers followed these kids (in research) for decades and  found  that those who had more self control were more likely to have better SAT scores and better jobs later on in life. - Psychologists have performed the experiment many times. In general, fewer than half the kids “pass” the test (research test). Most kids can’t delay gratification. -  Parenting style starts very early — when children are newborns. Perhaps this consistent parenting boosts the kids’ trust in adults. Click to read more :