Nivedita Mukerjee
Education consultancy for parents and schools
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Issue #69, 2nd November 2021
How many of us know deeply religious people who pray regularly, follow all the rituals, know all the scriptures, and are also very judgmental at the same time? can we call them spiritual? How should we look at being human? We have a spate of festivals being celebrated… school holidays and festivals are almost synonymous. Religious festivals, harvest festivals, national festivals…we celebrate them across the world. Most schools and also higher education institutions celebrate them in the institutions as well besides homes. What about spirituality? Do we discuss it enough with our children and students? What does it mean to each of us? Is it important for children to grow up knowing the difference? to pick one? to pick both? to pick none?
Here are some thoughts that I have collated. Let me know what you think and please subscribe to this newsletter with your email here.
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Two Thoughts of the Week
“All religions have been made by men.” Napoleon Bonaparte
The man who says to me, “Believe as I do, or God will damn you,” will presently say, “Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you.” Voltaire
One Video of the Week
In this TED talk, Archana discusses her views in distinguishing spirituality from religion, and how the former can help us to achieve more in life, and to feel more fulfilled ultimately. Archana is a changemaker with many roles. Alongside being a leadership speaker, writer and a budding lawyer, she also is a young diplomat and a published author. She believes in the power of spirituality, leadership and wisdom to progress in life. She currently is the Asian Regional Representative of The Commonwealth Youth Council, a voice for over 1.2 billion of youths. A lover of words and poetry, Archana also works as the Global Youth Ambassador of Theirworld to advocate for the equality of education. billion of youths. For her work in leadership and youth empowerment, she has been recognised as a Global Goodwill Ambassador of Malaysia.
And Finally…
Dear reader,
I have been a research scientist, a journalist, and an educator for over 3 decades. I read and, I write. With this weekly newsletter, I intend to share what I read, learn and, experience while I engage with students, parents, and teams of teachers across K-12 schools, higher education institutions and, ed-tech organizations.
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Issue #68, 26th October 2021
Discipline at schools has always been a matter of discussion for me and the school leaders. The students are coming back to school slowly after pandemic and I have been hearing murmurs from teachers across schools that one of the key factors to deal with alongside the learning gap will be discipline. What do you think? here are some points to ponder.
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“The ultimate goal of classroom management should not be on simple obedience, but on having students behave appropriately because they know it’s the right thing to do and because they can understand how their actions affect other people” (Hardin).
“Rather than creating rules, (the) students (will) engage in conversation about the type of community they wish their classroom to be” (Hardin).
One Video of the Week
Why do we think urban kids lined up in uniforms, sitting straight, and echoing answers are learning? I experimented with democratic practices in my urban classroom, and was surprised by the transformative power of democratic practices in the lives of students.
Katherine von Duyke, PhD is a professor and socio-cultural researcher. Her research on student agency in schooling contexts highlights the ways in which agents are in tension with, transform, and transcend situated contexts and discourses. Her experiences in education have been varied: she has been a homeschooling parent, directed a cooperative Montessori school, taught in an urban Montessori Charter school, and taught high school science. She currently teaches as a professor of education where she has been teaching math, foundations, and multicultural diversity courses
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Dear reader,
I have been a research scientist, a journalist, and an educator for over 3 decades. I read and, I write. With this weekly newsletter, I intend to share what I read, learn and, experience while I engage with students, parents, and teams of teachers across K-12 schools, higher education institutions and, ed-tech organizations.
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Issue #67, 19th October 2021
The schools are reopening in fits and starts across the world. It has been acknowledged that there have been varying degrees of learning loss across demographics. This has happened in K-12 and higher education. Learning loss, strain on the education system, mental health, and trauma of loss. This has created a great risk of learning disparity. It has also given us some opportunity to re-imagine education. Do share what your thoughts are and how do you think parents, students, and educators can come together along with the policymakers to make it up for our future generation.
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Two Thoughts of the Week
“Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.” – John Lennon
“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.” – Sun Tzu
One Video of the Week
HGSE Dean Bridget Long presents an overview of the impact and lessons of the global coronavirus pandemic on the field of education. The presentation was delivered in February 22, 2021 at Imagine Solutions, an annual forum (this year, virtual) that brings up to 20 distinguished experts, all widely recognized as prominent in their fields, to engage with an audience of 600 representatives of the private and nonprofit sectors. With a global perspective, national focus, and ability to implement at a local level, the conference is meant to link learning with leadership and to drive change in the world
Showcase of the week
Edtech tools help us gamify the whole experience of learning . Join us as we create this experience and learn how to make our classrooms engaging and rewarding for our learners .
Click here to register -https://rzp.io/l/TWTech
Please note : once you make the payment the site will redirect you to receive your zoom link for the session.
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Dear reader,
I have been a research scientist, a journalist, and an educator for over 3 decades. I read and, I write. With this weekly newsletter, I intend to share what I read, learn and, experience while I engage with students, parents, and teams of teachers across K-12 schools, higher education institutions and, ed-tech organizations.
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Issue #66, 12th October 2021
Gratitude is the greatest self-help trend that is going on today. The attitude of gratitude. How is it practiced? How does it help us? How does it help the one you are grateful to when explicitly told? Not just ‘thought of’ or ‘written on’ in a personal gratitude journal or a list? Is it an attitude that can be acquired? A skill that can be taught? a communication that can be done more often? Check out Keka’s talk in the video shared in the newsletter where she urges us to turn this self-help trend to a world-help one and share our gratitude emotions with those who we are grateful to. Now and everyday. Not wait for a eulogy or keep it contained in gratitude journals or meditative minds. What do you say? Here are some tips on how to teach it to your children/students and yourselves while at it.
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Two Thoughts of the Week
“You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.” Charlotte to Wilbur in Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” Maya Angelou
One Video of the Week
Why do we, on one hand, wait until someone leaves the room to praise them; then on the other hand, privately journal all of the things for which we’re grateful? How many of us have been positively impacted by someone, yet we never told them? In this heartfelt talk, Keka shares her journey of loss and love, and how she stumbled upon an unexpected side effect of gifting gratitude: one which combats today’s self-worth crisis, and our bullying and loneliness epidemics.
Her story may forever change how you practice gratitude. Keka is dedicated to moving people from feeling helpless to helpful through the powerful (and completely free) act of sharing gratitude.
Showcase of the week:
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Dear reader,
I have been a research scientist, a journalist, and an educator for over 3 decades. I read and, I write. With this weekly newsletter, I intend to share what I read, learn and, experience while I engage with students, parents, and teams of teachers across K-12 schools, higher education institutions and, ed-tech organizations.
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Issue # 65, 5th October 2021
From the time schools shut down in 2019 for pandemic, educators across board have shown courage, creativity, and determination in helping their students and colleagues through the most difficult time of their lives.
This collective experience has not just changed us as students, parents or educators but has dramatically altered the way we apporach learning and education now. These changes, whether good and/or bad—will impact school education for years to come. it would be great to hear some educator voices now on what they think, how they would like to see the future and engage with transacting learning with their students. Educator workload being one of the top of my mind that I hear from teachers. Next comes how can we support teachers who understand and bear the trauma that their students faced during this pandemic. How are they supported? who supports them? When a doctor or a nurse loses a patient or a police loses a colleague, there is a support system however ineffective or partially effective it is. What about teachers? They feel for their colleagues and students and suffer and support their loss too. How is a teacher supported so she can support those in her charge? What do you think? Share your thoughts and subscribe to this weekly newsletter by entering your email here.
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“Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.” ―Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” –Robert Brault
One Video of the Week
Teachers emotionally support our kids — but who’s supporting our teachers? In this eye-opening talk, educator Sydney Jensen explores how teachers are at risk of “secondary trauma” — the idea that they absorb the emotional weight of their students’ experiences — and shows how schools can get creative in supporting everyone’s mental health and wellness.
Sydney Jensen is a ninth-grade English teacher at Lincoln High School in the epicenter of America’s heartland: Lincoln, Nebraska. Lincoln is one of the nation’s top cities for refugee resettlement, and students at Lincoln High speak more than 30 languages.
Jensen also serves as an instructional coach working with new and veteran teachers to provide instructional support and mentorship. In recognition of her work in the classroom and the school community, Jensen is the 2019 Nebraska Teacher of the Year. She is a passionate advocate for increased mental and emotional wellness supports for both students and the teachers who serve them.
Showcase of the week
Looking for an easy and engaging way to teach map skills in your online classes?
THT is here to help you.
Join us for the workshop on
‘Teaching map skills using digital tools’ facilitated by Harsvardan Bhagat , to explore different techniques/tools to teach maps to your learners.
Who can attend : Middle Primary and secondary grade teachers .
To register you can click on the following link :
https://rzp.io/l/mapskills
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Dear reader,
I have been a research scientist, a journalist, and an educator for over 3 decades. I read and, I write. With this weekly newsletter, I intend to share what I read, learn and, experience while I engage with students, parents, and teams of teachers across K-12 schools, higher education institutions and, ed-tech organizations.
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Issue # 64, 28th September 2021
Education is the goal no. 4 amongst the 17 Sustainable Development Goals that have the power of creating a better world by 2030. It is the key to ensuring the rest of the 16 goals. And teachers, we are at the front and center of this. Literally, the world depends on us! Just as we are the one profession that creates all professions, we are once again recognised to be the key protagonists of SDG, according to the United Nations.
Well then, come along. Let us bring a better future together. Continue to learn with me and participate in my learning journey. Read and share this newsletter every week by just entering your email to subscribe. Like most good things in the world, it is free 🙂
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“In order to create a sustainable world, we need to:
1) Educate people.
2) Educate people.
3) Educate people.
For every person left uneducated about the system of this sphere, the nature will make us all pay for it. Sustainability can only start in the mind.”
― A. Togay Koralturk
“Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.” – Kofi Annan
One Video of the Week
Bangkok Prep teacher Kris Leverton addresses the importance of learning about sustainability in the classroom.
Showcase of the week
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) has been conducting the prestigious environment examination, ‘GREEN Olympiad’ – India’s premier annual school initiative being organized since 1999. As part of this program, TERI is conducting a training program for teachers on 28th September, 2021 from 3-430 PM. IST.
I am speaking during this educators’ workshop on ‘Imparting 21 Century Skill Sets towards Sustainability’
Please join in, the link is : https://bit.ly/2W3sosg
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Dear reader,
I have been a research scientist, a journalist, and an educator for over 3 decades. I read and, I write. With this weekly newsletter, I intend to share what I read, learn and, experience while I engage with students, parents, and teams of teachers across K-12 schools, higher education institutions and, ed-tech organizations.
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Issue # 63, 21st September 2021
Is your adolescent child anxious about going to school? Is your child deeply sensitive? Is your child fidgeting? Has your child sometime needed to just take a break and learn on his/her own at his/her own pace? Does s/he enjoy self directed learning? Does s/he enjoy learning ‘how tos’ and not necessarily discrete subjects? May be the child is anxious to perform? May be the child does not quite fit in? May be s/he has the abilities but can’t get around to showing them?
Sometimes we have to give up on structured curriculum. Give them a more democratic environment with voice and choice and find their own path. All children are gifted. We have to believe it, find out how to give them a positive sense of self-worth, help them realise their gift and bring it to the benefit of the world.
Don’t miss this week’s guest author Nancy’s article, on how she has continued learning from her gifted students even after her retirement as a teacher of gifted school and Heidi’s insightful talk. She was a gifted child herself and is now a mom of 3 gifted children.
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Two Thoughts of the Week
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”
Marie Curie
“The winner’s edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner’s edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.”
Denis Waitley
One Video of the Week
Being “gifted” often feels far from a good thing, when you’re the one living it. And yet the myth persists that “gifted” is an elitist and privileged label in education. That “those kids” will be fine without any extra programs or supports. After all, what’s the worst that can happen – they get bored? In reality, many of our most vulnerable learners are those “gifted” kids who know they just don’t “fit it.” In our rush to identify and label children for purposes of funding and organizing our educational services most efficiently, we’re missing the ground level, actionable and everyday needs of an entire grouping of needy kids. Our most gifted, sensitive and creative students are our canaries in the coal mine; they are more sensitive to the world around them and the reactions we see in them can teach us what our education system needs to be, believe, include and stop. As is often the case, what is necessary for some is beneficial to all.
Heidi approaches our education system from multiple perspectives. First and foremost, she is the mother of three amazing, gifted, creative and/or highly sensitive children! Heidi also spent almost six years as president of the City of Coquitlam‘s District Parent Advisory Council, attending countless advisory committees and working to build relationships between parents and teachers. And finally, she has worked with many passionate educators as an edtech consultant – participating in technology planning, facilitating dialogue and implementing technology to support student learning, communication and relationship building. She is an idealist, geek and deceptively social introvert.
Guest Author of the Week: Nancy Devitt Tremblay, Toronto, Canada.
Teaching is an intensive and personal enterprise, whether we admit it or not. A sense of kinship is formed between teachers and students through years of cajoling and worrying, drying tears, facing fears and being silly. I’m referring to both the kids and the grown-ups here. But students graduate and we stay put. And teachers often don’t know what becomes of their students.
I never really liked that aspect of my job.
So I came up with a plan.
As I was retiring after twenty years of teaching English and facilitating a Gifted/Advanced Placement program in Toronto, Canada, I decided to find some former students and ask them how they figured out who they wanted to be.
I turned these wonderful conversations into a podcast series. It’s called “Teaching The Teacher” because that is exactly what my former students do. All under-30, they are experts in a wide variety of fields. To say that I’m proud of them can’t really cover the range of emotions I feel listening to their stories of success, failure, resilience and ingenuity.
I hope the podcast will be enjoyed by teachers and also offer encouragement and inspirational career advice to students and their parents.
Season 1 Highlights:
- Fatin Tawfig, a climate expert at the United Nations in Bonn; she was one of 100 young people given a “green ticket” to the UN Youth Climate Action Summit in 2019.
- Eternity Martis, a best-selling author, recently named one of the 20 most powerful women in Canada
- Michael Vieira, an executive chef who explains his ADHD actually helps in the kitchen
- Dr. Josh Koenig, both an education reformer and a researcher who recently published ground-breaking work on peanut allergies
- Dr. Jad Abi-Rafeh who describes his path from “a little village in Lebanon” to acceptance into Plastic and Reconstructive surgery, the most competitive medical residency in Canada.
- Wise and evocative, Sylvia Mohanraj who is doing a specialized joint degree in psychotherapy and theology after years of “deluding” herself that she needed to go to medical school.
- Jacob Rumball, based in Hong Kong, investing hedge fund money in sustainable investment in India
- Tiana DeNicola of She | Shifting Her Experience, a Los Angeles podcast about self-improvement, feminist and LGBTQ issues, ranked top 1.5 percent globally.
.And there are still more…
What was that school I worked in, you might be asking by now! Was it an elite private school? Oh no, not at all. My school was in a not particularly privileged part of suburban Toronto, an area actually disdained by some.
But I will admit my assignment as a teacher was a bit unusual. In Canada, a category of special education identification is giftedness. Students are given the label when they are about nine years old and depending where they live, they will be given intermittent or full-time enriched programming.
I was responsible for the gifted cohort in my high school. With my colleagues, we ran Advanced Placement courses, dozens of clubs and activities including a debating society, Model United Nations and robotics; we offered PSAT testing and developed personalised acceleration plans. We opened these opportunities to students who didn’t have the official gifted identification label as well. I wasn’t entirely sure what I was doing but I knew in my heart that these students needed these opportunities.
In 2016, the results of a 45-year longitudinal American study of over 5000 gifted learners confirmed my hunch. The SMPY study, published in Nature, showed that even small things: one AP course, writing a PSAT, accelerating in one subject seemed to make a difference in the life trajectories of the students in the study. More doctorates, more research papers published, more university professors, more patents…the list went on. This study confirmed for me that what we were doing in our school could make a difference.
My recent encounters with my former students for the podcast series provides anecdotal corroboration: offering enrichment to students who are hungry for it really does pay off – for the fulfillment of the person and for society at large.
But as much as I was glad we offered enrichment, I was never completely at ease labelling young humans gifted. First of all, the label can be offensive to schoolmates. Of course, everyone is gifted in their own way.
I also came to understand that wearing the label exacerbated anxiety and perfectionism. Further, it could be hard to reconcile when maths (or any subject really) suddenly became more difficult and required more work. I always needed a box of tissues at hand the week that half of the Grade 10’s failed their first quiz in quadratics because they hadn’t thought they’d needed to study! I’d invoke Carole Dweck’s theories about “growth mindset” but sometimes it took a few years before some of my gifted students started doing the hard work. It was easier to say “Oh, I didn’t study for the test” than it was to say “I don’t feel smart anymore.”
Some episodes of “Teaching The Teacher” explore what giftedness looks like in adulthood.
The bottom line is “Teaching The Teacher” is a sentimental journey revealing the deep ties that remain between teachers and students despite distance and the passage of time.
Find Teaching the Teacher on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, etc.
Go to the Teaching The Teacher Youtube channel for links to podcast platforms and short video trailers with each interview subject.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJBE_GITB09bhopYURlqx1Q
Follow @teachingtheteacher on Instagram for episode announcements, links – and to let me know what you think!
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Dear reader,
I have been a research scientist, a journalist, and an educator for over 3 decades. I read and, I write. With this weekly newsletter, I intend to share what I read, learn and, experience while I engage with students, parents, and teams of teachers across K-12 schools, higher education institutions and, ed-tech organizations.
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Issue # 62, 14th September 2021
Should students learn about different religions while in school? Would it confound the minds of young children? Would it help them grow religious tolerance? In an increasingly connected world, for citizens of the future, where should the understanding of religious beliefs of their family and their friends grow – In the classrooms? with text books? With educators? With devised curriculum? With celebrations and stories of every festival that their classmates’ families celebrate? What is the right balance? What would be considered as education and what would be construed as indoctrination?
Check out the 7th grader’s talk in the video of this week. Subscribe to this newsletter by just entering your email here.
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Two Thoughts of the Week
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
- Albert Einstein
I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.
- Mahatma Gandhi
One Video of the Week
Diego Meneses, current 7th grader shares his perspective on why religions should be taught in schools. Individuals these days are afraid of teaching religion. There is a misinformed fear that the teaching of religion will lead to offending one’s culture and spiritual beliefs. However, it is actually the opposite. Teaching religions in schools offers individuals a chance to gain a better understanding of one another and can help build perspective and therefore, acceptance. His talk speaks on this fear and its repercussions. Although Diego was born in Mexico, he has both Peruvian and Mexican citizenship. Diego has had the privilege to live in Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Argentina and will soon be moving to the United States.
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Dear reader,
I have been a research scientist, a journalist, and an educator for over 3 decades. I read and, I write. With this weekly newsletter, I intend to share what I read, learn and, experience while I engage with students, parents, and teams of teachers across K-12 schools, higher education institutions and, ed-tech organizations.
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Issue # 61, 7th September 2021
The festival season is here and so are the amazing mythologies, folktales and legends that go with it! Eternal truths are embedded in mythologies. There’s a certain beauty and depth in them that take many years to unfold and multiple life situations to fathom. They offer us an amazing roadmap to the human psyche.
What is your favourite mythology? who is your favourite character? what has been your recent read of a mythological story – for yourself or to your student/child? how did you interpret it? Share your thoughts and insights, find some tips here if you are on the journey of reading and interpreting the hero-stories. Subscribe to this weekly newsletter by just entering your email id and enjoy with me a learning journey.
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“I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?”
― John Lennon
“Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth–penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
One Video of the Week
How to think mythically and sense archetypally to better understand our shared humanity, yet honour the diverse ways we live and make meaning. Australian-born Lithuanian Kristina Dryza is recognised as one of the world’s top female futurists and is also an archetypal consultant and author. Kristina has always been fascinated by patterns for she feels we are patterned beings in a patterned universe. She writes and speaks about the patterning of seasonal, tidal, lunar and circadian rhythms and their influence on creativity, innovation and leadership. She also explores archetypes and mythology to perceive the patterns in the collective unconscious and their expression within our psyches, society and media.
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Dear reader,
I have been a research scientist, a journalist, and an educator for over 3 decades. I read and, I write. With this weekly newsletter, I intend to share what I read, learn and, experience while I engage with students, parents, and teams of teachers across K-12 schools, higher education institutions and, ed-tech organizations.
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Issue # 60, 31st August 2021
Do you remember a teacher that made a difference in your life in any way? In which way did s/he change your heart? In what manner did s/he change your mind? How did s/he change your life? I know of school founders who became teachers and started school because they had lousy teachers growing up and also of many who became teachers or picked a subject and career because of the passionate teacher they had. I have come across many students who remember how their teacher made them feel about life and learning. Share about your experience of your teacher that you remember as a response to this post and yes, do go ahead and thank them.
Teacher’s day is around the corner. Time for us to reflect as educators, what is our own vision as a teacher and as parents who are their child’s first and primary teacher.
Happy Teacher’s Day!
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Two Thoughts of the Week
“Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.” –Scott Hayden
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” –Henry B. Adams
One Video of the Week
In this talk, recorded at TEDxEustis in January 2019, Dr. Julie Hasson shares her research into the impact of “The Teachers We Remember.” Her engaging talk details the experiences of students with teachers who impacted their lives and reveals ways techniques that teachers can utilize to have a greater impact on current students. Dr. Julie Hasson is the Nina B. Hollis Endowed Chair in Education at Florida Southern College. In addition to teaching graduate students, Julie is engaged in qualitative research exploring the lasting impact teachers make on students’ lives.
She founded the Chalk and Chances project, an online community committed to celebrating and elevating the teaching profession. As a a former teacher and school principal, Julie is passionate about making schools better places for teachers to teach and students to learn. Julie speaks to groups across the country about her research. She is also the author of Unmapped Potential: An Educator’s Guide to Lasting Change. Teacher, Researcher, Story Collector.
Showcase of the Week
The highly interactive, story-based virtual field trips, ReReeti Visits, is embarking on two journeys, to the Indus Valley Civilisation and to the events of 1857 in British India.
ReReeti Visits… Indus Valley Civilization: Discover new facts and details about the ancient cities of one of the world’s oldest civilizations, Indus Valley Civilization. In this hour-long virtual field trip, students will get a chance to be imaginative, collaborative, and reflective while considering contemporary concepts of town planning and climate change through the lens of ancient objects and lives lived in the Indus Valley Civilization.
Revisiting 1857 Interactive Workshop: Students will get the chance to don their historians cap and explore why the events of 1857 are known by multiple names – mutiny, revolt, freedom struggle. In this 90-minute module, students will also explore this conflict from the perspective of personal and social value systems.
1857 for Grades 6-12 (90 minutes) – Rs 450/student
Indus Valley Civilization for Grades 4-12 (60 minutes) – Rs 350/
To book a slot for your students, fill form: https://forms.gle/1ZW3PD6NfGcVBDXh6
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Dear reader,
I have been a research scientist, a journalist, and an educator for over 3 decades. I read and, I write. With this weekly newsletter, I intend to share what I read, learn and, experience while I engage with students, parents, and teams of teachers across K-12 schools, higher education institutions and, ed-tech organizations.
3-2-1 Tuesdays with Ms. Niv is a newsletter for you to subscribe to and enjoy your learning journey with me.
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