Meeting parents who are angry and upset comes with the territory when you are the Head of a school. In this article, Saubia Fatemi elaborates on the principles that should guide the communication between heads and parents when things become challenging.
Ask a reluctant writer to put pen to paper and he may come up with what are ironically the most creative reasons to avoid doing so. In this month’s Ilm o Amal, Lynette Viccaji explores the reasons certain students are reluctant to write. She takes a leaf out of her own training days and comes up with the key to getting students to willingly take on the task of expressing themselves.
This is the success story of a school-based research project that charts an institution’s transition from traditional learning methods to project-based learning. In this report, Dr. Maliha Ahmed gives a detailed account of the deep-rooted problems faced in implementing the project and its eventual success, against all odds.
Merely paying lip service to good citizenship in the classroom is not enough. In this article, Sana Lone explains why exploring themes such as, tolerance, responsibility and respect, require that teachers help connect these values with children’s lives to help them gain a true understanding of what it means to be a good citizen.
Organisation and self-discipline are key qualities for teachers who want to balance school and personal life. Here, Fauzia Azami Zubair gives valuable tips on how to stay on top of things and shows that having a full home life and being a dedicated teacher need not be mutually exclusive.
As the countdown for the summer vacations begin, your excitement and joy can be marred by the panic surrounding packing up the classroom. In this article, Shahrezad Samiuddin outlines tips for organising and packing up the classroom that will make the task easier now, and make settling in a breeze when it is time to come back to school.
Take pride in how far you’ve come. Have faith in how far you can go. But don’t forget to enjoy the journey. – Michael Josephson
As environmental destruction and drastic climatic changes reach crisis levels, it is evident that human beings cannot continue taking from the Earth without giving back to her. Now is the time to educate future generations to respect the Earth and the classroom is the obvious place to start raising their consciousness. In this article, Yasmeen Shahzad explores the extent of the problems facing our planet and the methods we can easily adopt in the classroom to support it.
Commonly treated as an add-on, art has seldom been considered a serious part of an education. In this article Shahrezad Samiuddin explores the prevailing attitudes towards a subject that is vital to students’ success and a well-rounded education.
Results from TRC’s opinion poll last month show that most of you believe that the most effective ways of disciplining a child do not involve punishment. In this article, veteran teacher Fauzia Azami Zubair looks at common problems that arise when we punish students and explores more humane and effective ways of dealing with the issue of discipline.
New Year Wishes
We wish all our members and readers a harmonious, untroubled, fulfilling 2013, in which we face different challenges which help us stretch and evolve/grow/develop, in which we make new mistakes from which we learn to act with more wisdom. These quotes will surely resonate with many of your feelings:
With the pressure to get good grades being so high and examples of cheaters ‘getting away with it,’ is it any surprise that cheating is so rampant in schools around Pakistan? In this article, Shahrezad Samiuddin explores what you can do to curb this menace and more importantly how you can encourage a more ethical environment.
