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From the kitchen to the classroom A mother is busy cooking dinner, glancing occasionally at her daughter, who’s attending an online tutoring session at the dining table. The tutor’s voice fills the room with questions like “Isn’t it?”, “Okay?”, “Are you clear?”. The daughter nods, says “yes,” and moves on to the next point. From […]

I just finished a class with Andrea and am feeling great about it. I meticulously prepared and spent extra time explaining concepts to ensure Andrea understood everything. When you ask me how the class went, I enthusiastically say, “It was excellent!” I truly believe it was a job well done. But then, you run into […]

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 […]