Sandeep started by telling us the difference between a counselor and a psychiatrist. A psychiatrist is a medical professional, who heals through medicines. He may have clinical psychologists attached. Counsellors are people who are students of applied psychology. They are not allowed to prescribe medicines. One of the common customers counselors have today are school … Read more

You are a learning-by-doing school. How are parents accepting it? MT: Grades have fallen, so they were concerned. Students are doing well after school. How do we make our school the best in Ambala? Teachers’ behavior depends on the subjects taught. We need each teacher to teach both language and science in lower classes and … Read more

We visited Bharat Vidyalay again in 2020. Had visited the school five years ago with Vijay Chheda and my kids. Now was time for our teachers to visit. Bharat Vidyalay is a live example of what CSR should actually be doing. It’s journey begins before the days of government mandated CSR. It was started by … Read more

We started at 0710 hrs from Arvind ji’s place – and reached Wai at 0910 hrs. Nagesh ji had planned an action packed day. We started by having a dekko at the new math architecture which adorns the entrance to the school. On one side are different types of regular solids – starting from a … Read more

Grade 1/2 We started with a session for grade 1 and 2. Most of the session was in Marathi, and Nidhi observed later that this helped student participation. Apoorva had got along his magic sack. Like Santa Claus, the goodies started coming out. A packing thread, a sewing thread, a jute one and finally craft … Read more

We had an interesting visitor – Brig. HSN Sastry. He retired as Director of DIAT. He has also been a Professor at Pune University. He interacted with senior classes. Classes did not ask any questions. He came in at 1240 – so they were in a mood to leave. Got the teachers to stay back … Read more

Density Even the senior kids will take them some time to understand the concept of density. We used wood and a coin to start with to make them realise that objects can sink and float. I asked students why? They said that it was because one was heavier. Next time, need to choose two objects … Read more

I decided to engage students with some math. The simple question that I give to students was: the answer is given, find the question. Eg. 19 =? +? Questions were different for every student. Pranav was quite good in this. The rest of the students struggled. Will do activities below at some later time. ·         … Read more

Did a test for nursery students. Here are the questions that were part of the test along with the comments. 1. Draw something for me. Most of the children drew a ball, an apple or a balloon. For nursery children, these are things which are simple to draw. The thought that comes to mind, is … Read more

Jayant Gadgil’s dad was in the government service. His basic education happened in a village where classrooms had short walls – and you could listen to whatever lecture seemed to interest you, unless the teacher got wise – and called you out to get you back mentally into his classroom. Jayant was the quintessential all … Read more