A few classroom strategies to help teachers tackle stress in students Stress, the silent killer of modern life, has become too pronounced among today’s youngsters. It has attained gargantuan proportions among teenagers and is known ...
Don’t try to influence children’s natural interests – it limits their imagination and inhibits their growth The best way to make learning effective is to make it fun, and what’s more fun to toddlers than ...
Children prefer outdoor activities to being cooped up in classrooms In the early days of my career as a preschool teacher, I found that most children had trouble comprehending numbers, even at the age of ...
A teacher cum parent’s views on how to guide children to choose their career. The minds of parents are always abuzz with thoughts of their children’s future, especially the parents whose children are studying in ...
A principal breaks the stereotypes associated with her profession Sitting within the cool confines of my office, with the temperature outside soaring to 44º C in Sohar, Oman, I was applying my mind to a ...
Upon arriving at her preschool, Sara began to cry. She clung to her mother and expressed her unwillingness to attend the school. But when she entered her classroom, she heard the music of her favourite ...
A chat with Anand Ramaswami In his crisp black shirt and dark blue jeans, Anand Ramaswami, Vice President of Academics at Next Education exudes remarkable confidence, a quality that has helped him reach great heights ...
“Mother hovers over me like a helicopter,” complains a teen in Dr. Haim Ginott’s best-selling book, Between Parent & Teenager. In this sentence lies the origin of the metaphor of the parent as a helicopter; ...
Adolescence, generally equated with the teenage years is usually a difficult phase of life. Most adolescents live under the impression that nobody understands their perspectives, aims and aspirations; and that the older generation has no ...
Exams are synonymous with stress and anxiety for many of you. As the exams draw nearer, the stress levels build up, to the extent that all the year-long hard work goes in vain. We understand ...