A blog post about the science teacher training workshop I am conducting. I shall be updating this blog with links to the individual blog posts about the workshops. I decided to create this and make everything available to the public thinking others might also find them useful. Enjoy!
An example of a poor quality textbook children in Nepal are taught from shows how careless authors and others involved in the production of such textbooks can be.
A reproduction of an article I wrote for the recently concluded Innovation in Education Fair 2017 information booklet, in which I question the way we approach teaching in Nepal as well as provide details of how we can improve the learning outcomes of students by changing, slightly, how we, teachers, teach science.
Volunteering at Jana Uddhar School produced results! One of the science teachers I worked with successfully went on to use her imagination and creativity to create solutions to problems of lack of resources, which, I would like to believe, I was a small inspiration for!
Why in Nepal we must teach our children to THINK and how we can do that in Science.
We are making gains, we are making progress...albeit small and slowly, but some day will amount to something substantial...that's what I am hoping anyway!
Teaching science to fifth graders at Jana Uddhar School without using a textbook.
Volunteering at Shanti Nikunj school to work with the 6th grade science teacher to teach, to learn and...to change.