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Sentispeak: Creating Great Teachers - 2
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Travels, Views, Judgements, Biases, Thoughts and daily quibbles. Thursday, February 27, 2014. Creating Great Teachers - 2. CGS 1 - Creating Great Teachers - 2. As I read yesterday's DNA of education, I was disappointed by the lack of rigour from journalists and the 'experts' they quote. The issue of teacher effectiveness is a complex one with no silver bullet. Let's look at how did we get here. Over 36 years, he was instrumental in shaping the lives of thousand of students. These are broad brush narrativ...
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Sentispeak: December 2014
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Travels, Views, Judgements, Biases, Thoughts and daily quibbles. Monday, December 29, 2014. My Top 5 from our 15th re-union. Sports at D-18 lawns. When the mind think it's possible but the body declines. 10 overs a side cricket was ok because we were largely standing and waiting for the ball to come to us. But Frisbee showed our real state of fitness! Overall, getting our hands dirty and breaking some sweat made Sports at D-18 lawns a worthy contender for No. 5 in my Top 5 list. A game of truth and dare ...
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Sentispeak: Creating Great Teachers
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Travels, Views, Judgements, Biases, Thoughts and daily quibbles. Wednesday, February 19, 2014. Teacher training does not make great teachers. This comes from the last training I conducted for teachers. I recognised that while a lot of focus is on subject matter expertise, CCE, classroom management etc., it is like applying cold cream on cow dung. Unless teachers become self-aware, they'll not become good teachers. Why do I say so? Teachers who believe that some children are born smart and some are not, f...
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Sentispeak: Failure is great! - our learnings from our recent Alchemy batch
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Travels, Views, Judgements, Biases, Thoughts and daily quibbles. Thursday, February 19, 2015. Our learnings from our recent Alchemy batch. While we regained perspective that we were comparing against a very high trend and the rating was still higher than our minimum acceptable base (3.5), we took this opportunity to reflect on what we could learn from this experience. Putting them into practice, this is what we learnt from this experience:. We need to make the program opt-in:. We make demands on the part...
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Sentispeak: October 2012
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Travels, Views, Judgements, Biases, Thoughts and daily quibbles. Wednesday, October 10, 2012. 10 days of hell for a lifetime of heaven - Part 1. My experience is mine alone. It is neither representative nor model. It is neither good nor bad. It is neither desirable nor repelling. It is just my experience. Your participation in Vipassana will give you what it will give you - it'll neither be what I got nor better or worse; it'll just be uniquely yours. Forms, formats and a glimpse of what lay ahead. Not b...
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Sentispeak: February 2014
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Travels, Views, Judgements, Biases, Thoughts and daily quibbles. Thursday, February 27, 2014. Creating Great Teachers - 2. CGS 1 - Creating Great Teachers - 2. As I read yesterday's DNA of education, I was disappointed by the lack of rigour from journalists and the 'experts' they quote. The issue of teacher effectiveness is a complex one with no silver bullet. Let's look at how did we get here. Over 36 years, he was instrumental in shaping the lives of thousand of students. These are broad brush narrativ...
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Sentispeak: April 2012
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Travels, Views, Judgements, Biases, Thoughts and daily quibbles. Friday, April 13, 2012. Right to education and the RTE Act. Now, what determines good quality education? And what comes in the way of universal access to it? Numerous surveys have indicated that good teachers in safe, enabling environments lead to good education. And access to it is a function of abundant supply of the above. Why is it that in India, all children do not have access to good quality education? Or hope for new private schools ...
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Sentispeak: September 2012
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Travels, Views, Judgements, Biases, Thoughts and daily quibbles. Thursday, September 27, 2012. 10 days of hell for a lifetime of heaven - Prequel. The course she mentioned sounded like some religious or spiritual cult and we were hardly in the mood for anything so serious or deep! I started my tenure at Zee Learn and the more time. Sometime in Aug-Sep 2009. Smita's mother went for Vipassana. She came back and her neck pain was gone. We didn't talk much about what she got from Vipassana. But I could sense...
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Sentispeak: Convocation address at Universal Group of Colleges
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Travels, Views, Judgements, Biases, Thoughts and daily quibbles. Friday, February 06, 2015. Convocation address at Universal Group of Colleges. Nothing. I do not remember who gave me my degree. I do not remember who the Main Speaker was, let alone remembering what he said. So as I stand today here in front of you, I wonder: What can I say that can make a difference in your life, so that 16 years later, you remember me? Thank you smile emoticon. Someone with competing loyalties might find that difficult t...
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Sentispeak: August 2012
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Travels, Views, Judgements, Biases, Thoughts and daily quibbles. Wednesday, August 22, 2012. The recent incidents in Assam and its consequent sparks in the rest of the country has set me thinking. Why is it that we are riddled with such divisive elements? What drives human behavior at such times? How do people find within themselves the fire to extinguish another life - that too of the same species? This happens because in life, the unexplored, un-investigated and unstated, typically runs us. As we grow,...