Remedial Learning or Accelerated Learning?
Schools across India are set to open very soon. School leaders and teachers have been working very hard to ensure that student learning...
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Aniruddh
May 30, 20213 min read
Viruses and Vaccines 101
Today’s edition of the blog talks about viruses and vaccines, in general. This blog will be followed by another in the coming weeks with...
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Things Education
May 20, 20213 min read
3 ways unboxED helps reduce learning loss
The past year has thrown up various challenges, affecting almost every aspect of life. Among these, school closure due to the COVID-19...
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Ritu Lamba
May 16, 20214 min read
5 ways to help children manage COVID anxiety
This is part 2 of a series of blogs to contribute to the bank of credible COVID-related information, evidence for myth-busting, and...
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Aniruddh
May 13, 20214 min read
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
May 9, 20214 min read
How effective is AYUSH 64?
The government (specifically, the AYUSH ministry) has decided that it will begin distribution of a poly-herbal (mix of many herbs) mix...
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Things Education
May 9, 20211 min read
Covid-19 Blog Series: Why?
Hello everyone, We all know that India is under the effect of a deadly pandemic in its second wave. It is a time for clear thoughts,...
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Aniruddh
Apr 1, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20215 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20215 min read
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, 20215 min read
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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