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Great teachers want to make a lasting impression on their students. Teachers generally feel they come up short in terms of the time to cover the topics as per syllabus. They are under tremendous pressure to “cover the material”. The only way teachers could expand the depth and breadth of their students’ learning is by […]

How many teachers have never come across situations where their students asked them to explain certain concepts or problems again, because they had not understood it well? Good teachers have tremendous patience. They will be happy to explain the concept or topics discussed any number of times so that their students get all their questions […]

Who doesn’t love a good story? Once upon a time, there was a great teacher. Whenever she was teaching, her students’ eyes and ears were glued to her. When these children went home, many of them used to share a lot of what they discussed in her class, with their parents. The parents wondered how […]

Learning to drive a bike wants you to remember multiple steps: balancing, speeding up, stopping, etc. Each of these skills requires a bit of reflection and a mixture of many small complex tasks. The skill of teaching is more complex and is a symmetrical combination of many small and repetitive tasks. Reflective teaching helps you […]

Feedback is a verbal, written, or a gestural response regarding a student’s academic standing or behaviour with an intention to improve his/her performance. The power of feedback is so strong that the process should be a positive or at least a neutral learning experience for the student. On the other hand, a negative feedback discourages […]

Researches on the benefits of frequent testing and feedback explain that in the history of the study of teaching and learning, the role of feedback has been equally important as the process of teaching. It is so important that it provides students with information on what exactly they did well, what may still need improvement, […]

The word, ‘coherence’ is defined in two ways: one, ‘the quality of being logically consistent’ while the other refers to the ‘quality of forming a unified structure’. In other words, ‘coherence’ is the situation when the parts of something fit together in a natural or logical way with a clear relationship between parts, especially in […]

Teachers generally plan and execute lessons with great care. Even the most carefully planned and executed lessons may turn ineffective and end in failure. Being busy, most of the teachers simply ignore those challenging or unsuccessful situations. Next time, or in the following year, these uncomfortable experiences and displeasing emotions will fade out from their […]

“Judge: The charge here is the theft of frozen chickens. Are you the defendant? Defendant: No, sir, I’m the guy who stole the chickens.” This is a quote taken directly from actual court records. The accused did not understand the jargon, ‘defendant’, used by the judge. This is an example of taking your audience to confusion as a result […]

Tom, a student in the primary class, is very reluctant to eat anything other than chocolates or candies. Feeding him has become a tiresome task for his parents. One day, after spending almost half an hour to make him eat a dish of vegetables, his mother told him. “If you eat your vegetables you can […]