Why do students find it difficult to answer questions?
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Things Education
- Dec 25, 2021
- 8 min
Why do students dislike studying?
...and what we can do about it. Hello, learner and educator! Whether a school leader, academic head, teacher, parent or friend, each of...
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Aniruddh
- Jun 27, 2021
- 3 min
4 things I’ve learnt about assessment creation
This blog comes from a combination of experiences of creating assessments for students I used to teach and creating diagnostic...
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Ritu Lamba
- Jun 11, 2021
- 4 min
Word Wizard: Building Children's Vocabulary at Home!
In our blog on strategies to build children’s vocabulary, we mentioned that for a new word to become a part of our regular vocabulary, we...
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Aniruddh
- May 13, 2021
- 4 min
Four challenges I faced with inquiry-based learning
This is a blog which is born out of my reflection notes from a few of my earliest attempts at getting students to go through...
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Aniruddh
- Apr 1, 2021
- 2 min
4 ways to help students handle new information
This is part 4 of a series of blogs to enumerate habits essential to building scientific temper in students. You can read our blog on...
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Things Education
- Mar 25, 2021
- 2 min
4 ways to encourage students to ask questions
Children are naturally curious. They absorb new things and want to know more about everything. The behaviour and reaction of adults to...
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Aniruddh
- Mar 18, 2021
- 3 min
4 ways to help students recognise patterns
Pattern recognition is on the one hand easy, while recognition of genuine patterns is complex. Human brains are wired to find patterns...
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Aniruddh
- Mar 11, 2021
- 3 min
4 points to keep in mind while noting observations
This is part 2 of a series of blogs to enumerate habits essential to building scientific temper in students. You can read our blog on...
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Aniruddh
- Mar 4, 2021
- 3 min
5 strategies to enable observations
This is part 1 of a series of blogs to enumerate habits essential to building scientific temper in students. This week we focus on making...
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Ritu Lamba
- Feb 11, 2021
- 3 min
3 strategies to help children learn grammar
This is part 4 of a series of blogs to enumerate skills essential to building literacy among students. Read our blog on reading skills...
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Ritu Lamba
- Feb 3, 2021
- 3 min
Conversation prompts while reading stories aloud
This is part 3 of a series of blogs to enumerate skills essential to building literacy among students. Read our blog on reading skills...
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Ritu Lamba
- Jan 28, 2021
- 3 min
4 strategies to improve children’s vocabulary
Last week, we started a series of blogs to enumerate skills essential to building literacy among students. In the first blog (here), we...
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Ritu Lamba
- Jan 18, 2021
- 3 min
4 ways to develop reading skills
Reading is the first essential literacy skill. How can parents, teachers and other caregivers ensure that children fall in love with...
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Aniruddh
- Jan 4, 2021
- 5 min
Teachers - Changing roles and future trends
I had the pleasure of attending parts of the K12 Conference hosted by Ashoka University on 5 and 6 June 2020. One of the sessions was on...
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Aniruddh
- Jan 4, 2021
- 4 min
Designing Lesson Plans - Thinking about Thinking
Thinking is one of the top 15 activities that we talk or write about, at least in the English language. We use thinking more than...
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Ritu Lamba
- Jan 4, 2021
- 5 min
How Reading More Leads to Better Reading
In the article Foundational Reading Instruction: Decodable Texts or Levelled Texts, I talked about what phonics is and why phonics...
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Ritu Lamba
- Jan 4, 2021
- 5 min
Foundational Reading Instruction: Decodable Texts or Levelled Texts?
The following piece draws on and summarises various articles, papers and discussion threads on the best types of texts to build a strong...
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Ritu Lamba
- Jan 4, 2021
- 2 min
How People Learn: Rote Knowledge and Inflexible Knowledge
The Big Questions: How do our brains RECEIVE and PROCESS information? How do we REMEMBER, and how do we FORGET? What does it mean to...
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Things Education
- Jan 4, 2021
- 4 min
How multi-disciplinary learning leads to deep understanding
How is information stored in our brains? Is our brain like a filing cabinet with many drawers? Does each drawer store different pieces of...
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