Elementary Education in India More than 1 million primary schools for 194 million children Vast improvements in attendance and literacy rate since independence Free and compulsory education from age 6 – 14 But 38% illiteracy rate (58% for SC/ST, 52% females) Primary: Mostly governmental/local b read more...

Both groups of high potentials express a high commitment towards their job. But the interpretation of that commitment appears to be quite different for those who are informally named high potentials and those who are formal. Without the organizational commitment of formal recognition, high potential read more...

Successful leaders will be the people who have developed the reasoning to think and act ‘outside the box’, who could confront and challenge old patterns of behaviour, and spearhead new initiatives — at any level in the corporate. For this, companies should be able to discover the leadership potent read more...

Whatsoever may be the lawyer aims of pedagogy and the hopes of educators, the fact is that most parents see on the schools as a agency of flee for their children from the hardships and privations of hobnailed lifespan. To ground primary schools for countrified children, where the cur- riculum de read more...

Steady after 64 eld of political independency, India has remained a developing land. Reasons are galore – population, unemployment, immorality, political system, deplorable policies, impoverishment, etc. But stabilize make is not sharing the parcel earliness to the issue of training. Oft cognisance read more...

New Central Universities New Degree Colleges Construction of girls’ hostels : Education of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Minorities and persons with disabilities Interest subsidy on educational loans Academic Reforms • Academic Reforms at Institutional Level • Phase-wise introduct read more...

That’s when Sister finally sat down and cried. She cried for Pramod and for all his friends who would never see him again. Thus a creative teacher is just not an information provider but a person who stimulates his students to greater success by living the values that he/she preaches. A creative te read more...

The years went by and he became her student again in the ninth grade. He was more handsome than ever and just as polite. This time he did not talk that much as he had to listen carefully to Sister’s instructions in the “new math.” One day, everybody seemed to be frowning, frustrated with themselves read more...

A creative teacher is also compassionate. The influence this teacher makes on the students at their impressionable age is unimaginable. One right word at the right time and place can catapult a student into a totally different sphere of success. Following is a story, though tragic, indicates the inf read more...

Creative teaching demands a prerequisite that a teacher must be creative. Creativity is all about having more options for a given situation. It is imperative that a teacher must undergo a long term and also periodical training in developing this art of creativity so that he in turn can make his teac read more...

The “Socratic Dialogue” technique is a very effective way to interact with students that are not particularly interested in the subject matter. The instructor’s objective is through dialogue to lead the students to their own discoveries. In the process the learners realize that abstract concepts do read more...

To make the class learner centered, there are varieties of creative techniques available. Some of them are group discussion, team teaching, quizzes, seminars, individual presentations, group presentations, brain storming, questioning, use of art and fine arts, story telling, clay modeling, role play read more...

When teaching itself is a creative work, what do we really mean by creative teaching? It basically means to employ appropriate tools and techniques to make the teaching very effective. So far we have concentrated on teacher-centered class and were more concerned about the content to be passed on usi read more...

Teaching is an eminently creative work. It is in fact a performing art. Like a dancer or a musician, a teacher goes on performing a solo act day after day and year after year. For every performance, a musician or a dancer prepares so much to give effect to the performance. He/she gets the make up do read more...

Whether with trepidation or triumphant, we, as educators, venture into the next millennium guided by a paradigm shift of changing student needs. Traditional methodologies and traditional classroom settings are transforming, expanding beyond the four-walled cubes into the “virtual” amorphous cyberspa read more...

Dr. Gururaj Karajagi, Chairman, Academy for Creative Teaching, (ACT) #480, 6th Main, H.M.T. Lay out, R.T. Nagar, Bangalore – 560032 Teacher education is too fundamental an aspect in the spectrum of education to be taken lightly. It is akin to production of quality seeds. If the seeds are good, th read more...

Teacher’s training programme should be managed like a professional course, though it was envisaged to function like one. With the uninhibited mushrooming of the teacher training institutions, most of them in the field of education for reasons other than academic, the quality of instruction has taken read more...

A professional course has be comprehensive and should give the student enough confidence to be on his/her own. The present duration of the teacher education programmes are wholly inadequate in training the future teachers in both content and methodology. In this context, the efforts of the Regional read more...

Class teacher concept at the primary stage does not make primary teachers from varied backgrounds adequately confident to teach different subjects with the same level of confidence. It is an observed fact that a teacher coming from the background of Science and Mathematics finds it difficult to teac read more...

Dr. Gururaj Karajagi, Chairman, Academy for Creative Teaching, (ACT) #480, 6th Main, H.M.T. Lay out, R.T. Nagar, Bangalore – 560032 There are many areas where changes can be brought about. Pranati Panda in her paper rightly identifies the following necessary changes: Structural changes. Enhan read more...