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Issue #250, 22nd April 2025 When faced with evidence contradicting your beliefs, do you revise your thinking or dismiss the evidence? Do you distinguish between what you know with certainty versus what you believe or suspect? Do you actively seek out different perspectives and criticism… Continue Reading “3-2-1 TUESDAYS WITH MS NIV”
Issue #209, 9th July 2024 Opportunity or Problem? How can a student prepare their mind to spot opportunities? Prepare your students/child to think and ask – Let them hone their skills to find opportunities in problems even as they grow into adults. Have them ask… Continue Reading “3-2-1 TUESDAYS WITH MS NIV”
Issue #200, 7th May 2024 Does reading aloud help in language development? Does reading aloud help in auditory processing? Does reading around promote cognitive skills? Do you think it would help with emotional and social development? What about the role of reading aloud in Brain… Continue Reading “3-2-1 TUESDAYS WITH MS NIV”
Issue #198, 23rd April 2024 What thoughts do you wish to create? Does language craft reality? Does learning a second language help us to think differently? Why do schools want students to learn second and third languages? What should be the basis of choosing one… Continue Reading “3-2-1 TUESDAYS WITH MS NIV”
Issue #197, 16th April 2024 Making reading a summer habit can cultivate students’ lifelong love of books and reading. This love of reading is linked to better educational and career outcomes. Would you agree? Parents and teachers? What about other activities during the upcoming summer… Continue Reading “3-2-1 TUESDAYS WITH MS NIV”
Issue #196, 9th April 2024 Which book have you read recently? Which book are you reading now? Why do you read and how can you help your child be a reader? Summer is upon us and a good time to visit a bookstore or borrow… Continue Reading “3-2-1 TUESDAYS WITH MS NIV”
Issue #191, 5th March 2024 When demand exceeds supply, we experience stress. Right? March is exam time, March is school budget time, March is tax filing time…Ides of March. Best known as the time when Julius Caesar was assassinated. But in school term, as an… Continue Reading “3-2-1 TUESDAYS WITH MS NIV”
Issue #187, 6th February 2024 Luck is defined as success or failure apparently caused by chance. So what role does it play in our lives? why do we say best of luck before exams? why do we wish good luck before travel? how does luck… Continue Reading “3-2-1 TUESDAYS WITH MS NIV”
Issue #184, 16th January 2024 We have been having holidays, festivals, celebrations, and thus rituals. The start of the new year has brought my thoughts to – What is a ritual? Do you recognize the rituals you have in your classroom? in your school? in… Continue Reading “3-2-1 TUESDAYS WITH MS NIV”
Issue #182, 2nd January 2024 You can wish the universe to conspire with you to achieve or goals, your wish to be fulfilled. Nothing wrong with that. But it would remain in the realm of positive thinking and may not move into possibility until there… Continue Reading “3-2-1 TUESDAYS WITH MS NIV”