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Promoting Holistic Development: 10 Strategies for Student Growth
September 14, 2024
30 Min Read

Promoting Holistic Development: 10 Strategies for Student Growth

Devangana Thakuria
Devangana Thakuria
Explore this blog to discover 10 effective techniques for promoting holistic development in your students. Enhance your lesson plans, ignite student engagement, and transform your classroom into a vibrant and impactful learning environment with actionable insights and strategies.
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Assessment Standards - Raise the Bar
Jan 29, 2023
4 min read

Mr X would always worry about his students’ results in assessments. The results were inconsistent and unpredictable.

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Creating an Assessment System
Jan 27, 2023
5 min read

Learning, at any level, doesn’t happen in isolation. Students learnt something in the past, they keep adding new knowledge to it, and then, eventually, learn to use this knowledge when the need arises.

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Assessment is Critical- But Why?
Jan 25, 2023
4 mins read

Mr A, a grade 8 Maths teacher, is quite famous in his school for delivering excellent results consistently, year after year. According to him, any teacher who understands the purpose of assessments, can deliver results as good as his!

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Step by Step Process to Land a Teaching Job in the United States
Jan 24, 2023
17 min read

Read this comprehensive guide that includes all the necessary details you need to know before, during and after the application process. We've also included tips and best practices to help you stand out and increase your chances of success.

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Understanding Student Assessment- The Vantage Point
Jan 23, 2023
3 min read

Vantage point is the point, generally a high place, that provides a good and clear view of the area we want to look at. The area is the assessment, in our case

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Effective Classroom Communication: The 7-38-55% Rule
Dec 29, 2022
5 min read

Let’s start with the words. Any communication where words are involved is called verbal communication. The tone of voice, rate of speech, pitch and volume are all a part of how we say those words and all of them put together form paraverbal communication.

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Shifting Gears from Fixed to Growth Mindset
Dec 27, 2022
3 min read

Jaime Escalante, a Bolivian-America mathematics teacher, came into the limelight when 18 of his students cracked the Advanced Placement Calculus exam with flying colours. If you like to watch inspirational movies, ‘Stand and Deliver’ (1988) is a must-watch movie based on his life as a teacher. 

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Dos and Don’ts of Learner Behaviour Management
Dec 25, 2022
2 min read

Learner behaviour is more or less their response to what they receive from their environment. While we cannot control the rest of the environment, we can definitely control what we provide to our learners as stimulus.

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Components of the Social Environment of a Classroom
Dec 23, 2022
4 min read

Learners in Ms D’s class are highly motivated. They engage in self-regulated learning, display positive behaviour, invest their effort in building social relationships, and are achievement oriented.

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Physical Classroom Environment is a Valuable Resource- NAQs
Dec 21, 2022
4 min read

The physical environment of the classroom plays a crucial role in ensuring effective learning. Here are some Not-so-frequently Asked Questions that every teacher should ask to turn the physical classroom environment into the best possible learning resource.

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Delivery of a Discipline-specific Lesson
Nov 29, 2022
5 min read

As teachers, it is our responsibility to deliver instructions in a way that increases the students’ probability of achieving their learning outcomes successfully.

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Planning Interdisciplinary Lessons
Nov 27, 2022
4 min read

Interdisciplinary lesson planning can ensure the development of critical thinking skills in your learners.

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