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CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Fostering peace and non-violence
WHY IS there so much violence today? So much of terrorism? Why did the devastating attack on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon take place on September11? In our own country, why is there violence at all levels all over? There are regional conflicts, linguistic quarrels, conflicts between the employer and the employed, high caste and low caste, majority and minority communities and of course, violence against women in the form of eve teasing, forced marriage, wife battering, bride burning and rape. More

PROFESSIONAL APPROACH
Upgrading teacher training
The curriculum structure, course content and the scheme of examination in the two-year B.Ed. programme have been developed after an in-depth study of the NCTE document on curriculum framework on quality education at the regional and national levels by the NCERT. This is an alternative to the existing one-year B.Ed. programme. More
MULTIPLE STRATEGIES
Developing the nuances of reading
EFFICIENT READING skills transform children into students. However, academic reading is significantly different from the reading that we do in everyday life. We read for different reasons — acquiring information, being the most obvious — but also hidden are reasons like getting away from yourself into a world of imagination and wandering. We read fiction and biography, poetry, travel and detective books — the list for reading and the supply of materials are endless. Real-life reading has often been called "Orientation reading", used for self-development, acquiring vocabulary, basic concepts, skills and just for the pleasure of reading. More

KNOW YOUR ENGLISH
By S. Upendran

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre." — Gail Godwin

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