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Managing talent with the Human Touch

A new hire, a seasoned and experienced professional, an intern or a contractual employee - across all these categories, employee...

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Two days of hope and inspiration

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing...

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The importance of studying history

- Amy Seefeldt, dean of academics at the Woodstock School, Mussoorie Modern life offers a powerful paradox: by bouncing waves...

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RTE Act demands changed mindsets

The Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (aka RTE Act) became law on April 1, 2010. But two...

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Makeover Educationist

Shweta Sastri is executive director of the Bangalore-based K-12 co-educational day/boarding Canadian International School (CIS, estb.1996), ranked among Indias Top...

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Accelerating ECE awareness in Asia: Keynote address by Sally May Tan

The Asia-Pacific region encompasses some of the richest and poorest nations on Earth, as well as the largest and some...

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ECE fever sweeping Asia

In neighbouring Asian countries with successful records of socio-economic development — Republic of Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and China —...

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How an integrated curriculum promotes all-round development of students

- Kavita Sahay, director – human resources, schools and academics, VIBGYOR High International School, Mumbai. Since the days of yore...

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Panel Discussion: New ECE innovations

Although the Union HRD ministry seems content to remain ignorant, Indias globally-tuned, upwardly mobile middle class has been quick to...

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New brain research discoveries: Keynote address by Dr. Jeremy Williams

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), famous American abolitionist, orator, author, statesman and social reformer, famously declared: It is easier to build strong...

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Insights for the creative educator

Creative thinking involves both hemispheres of the brain, sometimes alternating, at other times, in synchrony. Ideas hop, skip, and dance...

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Effective English language teaching

Consultative needs analysis surveys conducted by the British Council over the past three years for in-service teacher education programmes in...

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The gifted teachers option

Special education for gifted children is an idea which is becoming increasingly popular worldwide. In our neighbourhood — Singapore, China,...

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Attributes of 21st century teachers

The IT (information technology) and internet communications revolutions of the past two decades have transformed teaching-learning norms and systems around...

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Developing essay writing skills

For all students, particularly those on the threshold of completing their secondary and higher secondary board examinations, writing an engaging...

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Enabling learning by discovery

Chalk-n-talk and one-way conversation is still the dominant pedagogy in India's classrooms. Why is it that none of the other...

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Growing importance of school counsellors

Today's youth are living in the most exciting time of human history, within increasingly diverse communities and cultures, newer and...

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Indigenous career counseling basics

Career counseling is gaining increasing importance in India today, as families and education institutions search for methods and systems to...

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Institutional quality circles basics

One of the great questions which confronts governments, school managements and educationists around the world, is how can schools transform...

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Lessons from the life of Michael Jackson RIP

There must be few people in the world who didnt feel a sense of loss on June 25 when pop...

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Bringing nature into the classroom

Within India's 5 million-strong school teachers community, there is an urgent need to acknowledge Mother Nature as the greatest teacher...

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Promote global citizenship values

The recent attacks on Indian students in Australia have evoked shock and dismay within all sections of the populace in...

Karnataka: Evaluations proposed at class 5, 8 to check learning levels

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Teaching English as a second language

Is English India's first or second language? For a minority of Indians who have had the good fortune to be...

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Sex education: Unwarrantedly taboo subject

Sensational reports highlighting widespread sexual abuse of children by teachers, care givers, care providers and neighbours which have been appearing...

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Waiting out the recession

The financial crisis that originated in the bursting of the sub-prime housing loan bubble in the US last year, has...

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Declining value of foreign MBAs

Despite India boasting over a thousand B-schools, some of whom are rated and ranked among the best in the world,...

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Encouraging multiple intelligences

Farah, the schools star athlete was devastated. This class VIII student had been assessed a below-average performer and placed on...

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Grave human rights violation

Dr. Mithu Alur (founder chairperson of the National Resource Centre for Inclusion, Mumbai) The Congress-led UPA-2 government in New Delhi...

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Innovating for real teaching-learning

Vaidya Nathan, Chennai-based founder-CEO of Classle Knowledge, an education empowerment enterprise Even after 14-15 years of education, a large percentage...

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Mending engineering education

- Amit Bansal is founder-director of PurpleLeap, a Bangalore-based training company Over the past decade, there has been a dramatic...

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Paradigm shift in classroom interaction

Somewhat belatedly but fortunately, the past decade has witnessed a radical shift in the way teaching is managed in classrooms...

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Social media and learning outcomes

The new ‘information age is characterised by our ability to transfer knowledge and information freely.All of us have been touched...

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Support community colleges growth

The Indian economy has changed significantly in the past decade resulting in corresponding change in the nature of work and...

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Teachers awake, arise

India is poised at a very critical point in time and history, when we need to analyse whether we are...

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The IB curricular advantage

"A great school will educate its students not merely to be personally successful but also to use their gifts to...

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Towards inclusion in school education

The Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (aka RTE Act) which was unanimously passed by Parliament in August...

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Unlocking every learner’s potential

This Teachers Day (September 5), I was reflecting on what it means to be a teacher, and wondered if I...