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Volume 3 Month 4 Day 27 – CCE Formative Assessment I

We have been implementing CCE in our school from class 1st to 10th religiously. We have integrated blooms taxonomy thru activities related to LOTS and HOTS. We have also Integrated Multiple Intelligence at all levels in all subjects. Every FA activity is classified in 8 different types of intelligences. Students just love it. We have more [...]

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Volume 3 Month 4 Day 21 – A Parent’s Note to a Teacher

 

From: The Heart of a Teacher
“A Parent’s Note to a Teacher”
by Anonymous

I’m the voice of a grateful parent
whose child was in your class…
the one who needed help to find his way
You’ve been a special blessing
as you helped my child succeed
and I’m thankful for the part you had to play
You gave him so much more
than [...]

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Volume 3 Month 4 Day 16- Cultivating the ‘Other Part’ of the Brain

 

Being Nothing, Doing Nothing: Cultivating the ‘Other Part’ of the Brain

Because our minds are crowded, we crowd our lives—with busy schedules, multiple activities, plans and projects for a better life. We rarely, if ever, take the time to investigate who or what it is that is generating all this, much less inquire if it can stop. [...]

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Volume 3 Month 4 Day 13- Tips for Classroom Discipline and Management

Classroom discipline and management causes the most fear and consternation in new teachers. However, classroom management is a skill that is not only learned but practiced daily. Here are ten tips that can lead to successful classroom management and discipline. These tips can help you cut down on discipline problems and leave you with fewer interruptions [...]

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Volume 3 Month 4 Day 11- Writing Book Reviews

A book review is a description, critical analysis, and an evaluation on the quality, meaning, and significance of a book, not a retelling. It should focus on the book’s purpose, content, and authority. A critical book review is not a book report or a summary. It is a reaction paper in which strengths and weaknesses of [...]

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Volume 3 Month 4 Day 9- On Learning Difficulties

 

What are ‘Learning Difficulties’?

Today, a large number of schools and institutions across India are sensitive to the fact that 15 percent of all school-going children have some degree of learning difficulties. According to the Canadian Association for Children and Adults with Learning Disabilities:

Learning Disabilities or Difficulties, is a generic term that refers to a heterogeneous group [...]

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Volume 3 Month 4 Day 8- Academic Forms and Letters

Here are various forms and letters from different categories that can provide a great deal of help to teachers for a better classroom management. Check out these forms and letters and perform your classroom related chores in a well managed and planned way.

 Behavior Documentation

A form to document behavior for individual students. Meant to be kept as [...]

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Volume 3 Month 4 Day 7- Joy of Geography

 

It is quite astonishing that adults know so little of the world around them. They possess a poor subjective understanding of History and little or no understanding of Geography. Science of course is elevated to a religious height with even less understanding. After fourteen years of schooling it is quite interesting to see how little has [...]

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Volume 3 Month 4 Day 4 – Good Teacher

A bad teacher is negatively pessimistic
A good teacher is positively optimistic

A bad teacher swears all the time
A good teacher cares in their prime

A bad teacher passes on rude fear
A good teacher has on good ears

A bad teacher discourages
A good teacher encourages

A bad teacher despairs
A good teacher prepares

A bad teacher likes to bitch
A good teacher likes to [...]

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Volume 3 Month 4 Day 2- ‘Education’- Now a Fundamental Right

 

Nearly eight years after the Constitution was amended to make education a fundamental right, the government of India implemented a historic law to provide free and compulsory education to all children in age group of 6-14 years on April 1, 2010.

The 86th Constitutional amendment making education a fundamental right was passed by Parliament in 2002. The [...]