tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45447542705577907722024-03-12T18:51:01.911-07:00Is it time to transform EducationRamanatha Sastryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05715828113254784080noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544754270557790772.post-19325327398129615712018-06-26T08:18:00.003-07:002018-06-26T09:29:29.476-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ramanatha Sastryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05715828113254784080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544754270557790772.post-23799452838044216862014-06-13T07:31:00.003-07:002018-06-25T07:15:02.426-07:00Bringing Magic into the Classroom: Tim Rylands at TEDx<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tim Rylands, an education explorer talks about how the word teacher is too one-sided. He focused on important of making the class room more vibrant place for children to take education to next level and help broaden the children's minds.</span><br />
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Ramanatha Sastryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05715828113254784080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544754270557790772.post-12261652268028216992014-05-19T08:58:00.001-07:002014-05-19T09:04:40.599-07:00Re-engineering high school: India Gregory at TEDxCharlotteED<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ramanatha Sastryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05715828113254784080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544754270557790772.post-22657796940065600692014-05-05T05:16:00.003-07:002014-05-05T05:16:26.168-07:00This Is What Happens When A Kid Leaves Traditional Education<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This Is What Happens When A Kid Leaves Traditional Education</h1>
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School & Experts Put Genius Boy In Special Ed. Now He’s Free & On Track For Nobel Prize</h1>
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A young genius whose IQ is said said to be higher than Albert Einstein<strong>,</strong> is on his way to possibly winning a Nobel Prize after dropping out of elementary school and his special ed programs. From a young age, Jacob Barnett was very interested in Math and Physics. Numbers were his passion and he was getting bored of early grades of elementary school as they did not come close to challenging him. Finally, his parents made the decision to take him out of public school and special ed programs regardless of the fact doctors had diagnosed him with ASD.</div>
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Ramanatha Sastryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05715828113254784080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544754270557790772.post-83749662640959476802014-04-27T06:25:00.001-07:002014-04-27T06:25:23.603-07:0038 Effective Strategies for Classroom Management<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This article gives 38 effective strategies for classroom management. These </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">strategies may not be what you are used to and may require changes on your </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">behaviors, these are the strategies that I endorse and believe in as being the </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">most effective for creating a positive classroom climate, based on my own </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">elementary age classrooms, but many of these strategies can be used for all </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">other </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">students after you have consistently implemented the strategies in this </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">determine what else can be done to help this student. The school team may </span></div>
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Ramanatha Sastryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05715828113254784080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544754270557790772.post-56546472939828503972014-04-15T06:46:00.000-07:002015-08-24T04:27:06.340-07:00Differentiation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Differentiation</h2>
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How do you differentiate your teaching?</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gifted and talented learners need and enjoy variety and challenge. This requires that lessons be variously differentiated by:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">outcome (learning objective)</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">process (the method of teaching)</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">tailoring the content of the lesson for the individual (personalised learning agenda)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">provision (access to specialists)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">choice and self-direction</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">learning style.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These enrichment activities may be delivered by the school, by experts or be extra curricular. It is important however, to make them worthwhile and to include content and experiences that sufficiently stretch learners.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For complete article and other details visit the site <a href="http://teachertools.londongt.org/index.php?page=differentiation" target="_blank">Teacher tools</a></span></div>
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Ramanatha Sastryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05715828113254784080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544754270557790772.post-44353417257885336142014-03-16T07:55:00.003-07:002014-03-16T07:55:40.160-07:00Foundations of Teaching for Learning 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I completed part 1 of course and waiting for this part....Today i found it is starting shortly...</span><br />
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Ramanatha Sastryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05715828113254784080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544754270557790772.post-88593912920641418562014-03-10T20:33:00.000-07:002014-03-31T09:30:59.300-07:00How to Build an Online Teaching Career<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ramanatha Sastryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05715828113254784080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544754270557790772.post-38724149755284714972014-02-28T04:01:00.003-08:002014-03-01T03:16:12.458-08:00Study Skills & Time Management for Students<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ramanatha Sastryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05715828113254784080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544754270557790772.post-87943022760803476392013-08-16T02:25:00.001-07:002018-06-25T07:27:45.600-07:00How to Trigger Students’ Inquiry Through Projects<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ramanatha Sastryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05715828113254784080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544754270557790772.post-3817408265518865852013-08-12T02:53:00.004-07:002018-06-25T07:29:18.750-07:00TED winner "Mitra" warns teachers to be ready for change<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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do not know, I don’t know if there’s a teacher inside us but there’s a learner
inside us and that learner, anyway learns all the time. It’s just that he
decides what he wants to learn, what is important and what is not important. So
if we don’t turn the learner on properly then (it) they doesn’t learn. And I
think what some of my Workshops show is that the learner can get that
done by curiosity and by mystery not so much by threat. You can’t say to a
learner: now you must learn, he can’t control it if the little learner inside
says: “sorry”, then that’s it.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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as I’ve said we need some changes in teachers’ training programmes pretty
several changes… but most importantly we need a change in the examination
system, otherwise my work would appear to be against teachers. It is not
against teachers, it is against the kind of teaching the teachers have to do,
because of the examination system.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Ramanatha Sastryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05715828113254784080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544754270557790772.post-56583965783202153752013-08-04T09:21:00.000-07:002013-08-16T04:25:40.083-07:00Teach as they Learn.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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middle-class parents have been spending one third of their monthly income on
private tuitions for their wards to do better in their examinations and prepare
them for competitive entrance exams for professional courses,” the survey
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">“The current size of the private coaching
industry in India is about $23.7 billion (Rs 1,41,416.33 crore) and is likely
to touch $40 billion (Rs 2,38,677.36 crore) by 2015,” the survey added.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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while group tuition costs Rs 1,000 to Rs 6,000 per month, it said.</span>” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 15.6pt;">“Reports of vacant seats (80,000 in Tamil Nadu; 70,000 in MP; 50,000 in Maharashtra; and 7,800 in Gujarat), and colleges applying for closure are being seen as signs of interest in the field waning." on </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 20.796875px;">engineering</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 15.6pt;"> education.</span></span></div>
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becoming only authorised </span></span><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 20.796875px;">centers</span></span><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 15.6pt;"> for enrolling to </span></span><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 15.6pt;"> get the certificates as per
rules and for learning the students are depending on some other source.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: magenta; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Why teachers in a tuition centres are teaching well and not in the
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Are the tuition centres are well equipped with teaching
methodology and education technology applications than the schools???????</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">What is the case of students who are not in a position to pay
both school and extra fees for tuition centres?</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Why to elaborate, what are your suggestions to transform the
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Is it possible to make a change by any methods for a real impact in the students </span><span style="font-size: 19px;">and middle class parents </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> day to day routines???</span></div>
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Ramanatha Sastryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05715828113254784080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544754270557790772.post-90794164776328171802013-07-19T21:57:00.000-07:002013-08-16T04:25:58.059-07:00The teacher is a gardener who helps to....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you are a parent, you have many aspirations for your child that may include him or her becoming a doctor, an engineer, scientist or another. Kind of successful professional. I believe these aspirations are driven by your thinking about your child’s future, and her centrality in your life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Since good education is often the passport to a good future, I presume it leads you to getting your child admitted to a good school. Then you encourage your child to study hard and do well in the school exams. To bolster this, you send him or her for tuition classes. This would have primed your child for board exam and entrance exams, thereby leading to admission into a good profession into a good professional course. Doing well at college increases the probability of landing a good job. And a good job means the child’s future is ensured.</span></div>
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I am neither a psychologist nor an educationist, and what I will now state may seem counter-intuitive. I think that these aspirations and actions might be doing more harm than good to your child. To understand why; we need to re-examine some of our fundamental assumptions.</div>
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In the first place, I have seen time and again that living: for some distant future goal also means you do not live in the present. The distant goal will always translate into an external measure of success, such as exams. And most exam – focused children start forgetting what it means to be a child, to be curious, mischievous, exploring, falling, getting up, relating, discovering, inventing, doing, playing.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisPUSYKIMTA-lye6_rCzjDeTy-PO_-IdFh6dUCNikiiQNRh53y8F7CbRtifibfGMTN0EqFnPWaxsjT5hkSDpxuET6j8Z-eTWUoR_T-0apwLPW2jP486-9qyAdsBVDOO3lNrvRphOsd5KM/s1600/hqdefault.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisPUSYKIMTA-lye6_rCzjDeTy-PO_-IdFh6dUCNikiiQNRh53y8F7CbRtifibfGMTN0EqFnPWaxsjT5hkSDpxuET6j8Z-eTWUoR_T-0apwLPW2jP486-9qyAdsBVDOO3lNrvRphOsd5KM/s200/hqdefault.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="color: blue;">Childhood is very precious; precious enough not be wasted by the artificial pressures of contrived competition, by too many hours of bookish study;</span><span style="color: blue;"> and by school report cards that simplistically wrap up an entire human being in numbers.</span></div>
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The second assumption is that education is merely a ticket to socio-economic success. Give the state of our country; this reality cannot be ignored. But restricting education to only this aspect is, I think, a very limiting notion of the aim of good education. </div>
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<span style="color: blue;">The primary purpose of a school is to guide the child in her discovery of herself and her world, and to identify and nurture the child’s talents. Just as every seed contains the future tree, each child is born with infinite potential.</span> Imagine a school which sees children as seeds to be nurtured – here <span style="color: magenta;">the teacher is a gardener who helps to bring out the potential already present in the child.</span></div>
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This is very different from the current view which seeds the child as clay to be molded – where the teacher and parents are potters deciding what shape the clay should take. There is an old (and forgotten) Chinese saying :“Give a seed to a potter, and you will get a bonsa !”</div>
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Even in a commercial organization, to make profits we do not have to chase profits. Rather, we need to build an institution that gives every employee an opportunity to do meaningful and fulfilling work.</div>
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Create an organization driven by values of innovation, integrity, customer centricity and care. And as you practice these values every day and moment, you will see the profits take care of themselves.</div>
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Similarly ; dear parent, this is my request to you. Do not give up your child’s present to secure his or her future. Give your child the freedom to truly explore life with abandon. In doing this, you will see your child flower into a creative and sensitive human being. And when this happens, everything else – money, social success, security – will fall into place automatically.</div>
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Ramanatha Sastryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05715828113254784080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544754270557790772.post-81780501005315576022013-07-14T07:43:00.000-07:002018-06-25T07:33:20.554-07:00Create your Own Online Course (MOOC)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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teach the kids. Here are few websites FREE to go ahead with.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is a simple publishing platform with facility to add everything to develop a
course. Add text, videos, images, quizzes and interactive learning gadgets and
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Versal <u>Foundation offers grants </u>in two categories: Transformative education and Foundational education. Grants range depending on the scope of your course, length (one hour at a minimum), what it will take to build it, and its power to help people. </span><u1:p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></u1:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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presenting your course material, which can include lessons, student activities,
and assessments.It also contains instructions for using other Google products
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Ramanatha Sastryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05715828113254784080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544754270557790772.post-1335692747129017512013-07-14T05:10:00.002-07:002013-08-16T04:27:35.532-07:00Help while learning <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><a href="http://freerice.com/category" target="_blank">Freerice</a></b> is a free online game and learning tool, that allows players to raise rice to fight world hunger while learning through educational, multiple-choice games. For every question the user answers correctly, 10 grains of rice are donated to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Food_Programme" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="World Food Programme">the World Food Programme</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The available subjects include English vocabulary (the original subject with which the game launched), multiplication tables, pre-algebra, chemical symbols (basic or intermediate), English grammar, SAT, basic foreign language vocabulary for English speakers (French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish), human anatomy, geography (flags of the world, world capitals, country identification and world landmarks), the identification of famous artwork, and literature (classic and popular books). Total score is displayed as a mound of rice and the amount grains.</span></div>
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Ramanatha Sastryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05715828113254784080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544754270557790772.post-22347221416783264762013-07-14T04:57:00.000-07:002018-06-25T07:40:14.007-07:00web sites for grammar and spell check<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ramanatha Sastryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05715828113254784080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544754270557790772.post-2982002595672823992013-07-13T23:54:00.000-07:002018-06-25T07:41:34.863-07:00Courses from ‘coursera’ for teachers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ramanatha Sastryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05715828113254784080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544754270557790772.post-13109465882377333132013-07-10T07:00:00.001-07:002018-06-25T07:43:14.159-07:00What we want kids to do with technology?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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