Teachers are the fulcrum around which our entire education ecosystem revolves. Especially in the context of a government school where students are not privileged to have various means of accessing information, a teacher is a window to the outside world. Is there a lack of teachers in government schools? As per the Right to Education
How Mobile Apps are becoming the next big thing in Education?
Revathy is a class 6 student in a government school located in the tribal areas of Roddam district in Andhra Pradesh. She wants to become a doctor and science, she says, is her favourite subject. It is unfortunate however that the school has only one science teacher who apart from teaching 8 different classes is
Our Obsession with Teachers: CSR at Government Schools
Digital education for government schools definitely and rightfully seems to be the favourite target with major CSR spenders. But while reviewing majority of the programs, one can clearly see one thing – every program is majorly centred around the teacher. Whether it is a teacher training program, or a curriculum enhancement program, or a smart
Why Smart Classes will give way to one on one Learning?
Let’s go back a few years i.e. even before when computers were introduced in our schools and try to visualize how our classrooms were run. A teacher enters into the class, uses blackboard and chalk to teach a particular topic in the 30 to 45 minutes she has. A good teacher would in between ask
Why videos make more sense in our classrooms today?
The answer lies in the way our society has evolved over the past 50 years. Let’s go a little deeper into this. If we look at the generation which grew up in 50s, 60s and 70s, outside of school majority of them were either involved in various forms of outdoor games or looked at books