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Teaching and learning is a process whereby knowledge is transferred and constructed. When knowledge is regarded with high respect, the process of attaining knowledge is also regarded with high respect. And the more experienced person who is involved in the process of knowledge construction (Teacher) is also cherished high. We have published a half minute video in the link at the end of this article which is released by www.wltx.com whereby a 15 year old student and a teacher fight physically in a classroom, where some try to create a truce between them. This makes us to think what kind of respect is being created between teacher and a student in the current times, and what kind of relationship the school stakeholders have between themselves. If you look at the kind of relationship between school stakeholders, in some cases: Teacher considers teaching to be a job, School considers teacher to be an employee, The teacher considers the student to be a client, Stud...

    Our day at School started with the National Anthem 'Jana gana mana'. It was a beautiful experience. I feel this is one of the experience we all Indians share. I got the English translation word by word. Thanks to the person who has shared this translation. I take this opportunity to publish this in my blog. 🇮🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮 Please try to understand the meaning and pronounce it clearly. Word by word meaning.. 🎵Jana            = People 🎵Gana            = Group 🎵Mana           = Mind 🎵Adhinayaka= Leader 🎵Jaya He      = Victory 🎵Bharata       = India 🎵Bhagya       = Destiny 🎵Vidhata   ...

Snippets: - Successful education cannot happen in a piecemeal fashion. Taking an integrated approach can help children, with all their complexity and humanity, to develop to their full potential. - "Whole child” approach is not only desirable but necessary to ensure that children learn well.  - Our current education system mostly focuses on a narrow objective of children’s cognitive development with an emphasis on transmitting content knowledge, often to be memorized and repeated in the same form it was received.  - Many schools today are based on antiquated designs from the early 1900s that emulate the factory model, wherein students cycle through classrooms and teachers see hundreds of students a day. - Learning is not just Academic and rote learning. It's social, emotional, and academic.  - Children who had dropped out of high school in 25 urban, suburban, and rural communities, nearly half (47 percent) said a major reason for dropping out was that cl...

Constructivism is a learning strategy that draws on students' existing knowledge, beliefs, and skills. With a constructivist approach, students synthesize new understanding from prior learning and new information. The constructivist teacher sets up problems and monitors student exploration, guides student inquiry, and promotes new patterns of thinking. Working mostly with raw data, primary sources, and interactive material, constructivist teaching asks students to work with their own data and learn to direct their own explorations. Ultimately, students begin to think of learning as accumulated, evolving knowledge. Constructivist approaches work well with learners of all ages, including adults. Source: received this write up from WhatsApp.

Development is the term used to describe the changes in child’s  physical growth, as well as the ability to learn the social, emotional, behaviour, thinking and communication skills  the child needs for life. All of these areas are linked, and each depends on and influences the others. In the first five years of life, child’s brain develops more and faster  than at any other time in his life. The child’s early experiences – his relationships and the things he sees, hears, touches, smells and tastes – stimulate his brain, creating millions of connections. This is when the foundations for learning, health and behaviour throughout life are laid down. The charts (refer below link) lists the ‘typical’ child development by age and the possible implications if a child has reached or not reached typical developmental milestones. These charts can be used as a guide to screen if children are reaching roughly appropriate developmental mi...

Imagine what would happen if, instead of sending children to conventional schools where their natural ways of learning are curtailed, are given an opportunity and resources to learn in a self directed and fun and curious way. Self Directed Learning provides them with the resources that would allow their curiosity, playfulness, and other natural ways of learning to flourish. The  Alliance for Self-Directed Education ( ASDE ) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to normalizing and legitimizing Self-Directed Education. The motivating forces for self directed learning include curiosity, playfulness, and sociability—which promote all sorts of endeavors from which people learn. Imposed schooling is generally aimed at enhancing conformity rather than uniqueness, and it operates by suppressing, rather than nurturing, the natural drives of curiosity, playfulness, and sociability. Click to know: What is Self Directed Education: Click to know about membership in self d...

How teachers and students can use IXL? IXL makes maths and English practice fun! IXL sets a new standard for online learning, offering unlimited, algorithmically generated questions; real-time analytical reports; and dynamic scoring to encourage mastery. Students can practice problems and preschool children also have resources to practice. Released in 2007, it has since become the world's most popular subscription-based learning site for LKG through class XII. With more than 4,000 unique and challenging skills to master, IXL offers a dynamic and enjoyable environment suitable for any learning style. Click to open the website of IXL : Note: CLF has no connection with IXL, we have provided the link as an educational resource.