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Decorated Void: Teachers’ Day and the Illusion of Honour

Bythatteacher.in

A Celebration with Contradictions Every year, Teachers’ Day is celebrated with great fanfare in various educational institutions across the country on 05th September. It is often seen that a majority of teachers stay away from political and administrative positions. In such a situation, it is indeed a matter of pride that a teacher was chosen…

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What If We Let Students Fail, Reflect, and Change Course

Bythatteacher.in

I was a fairly underconfident teen in 1994. As the new academic session began, our class was asked to move to the ‘big’ building in school that housed the senior secondary classes. I wasn’t excited but I had recently started loving some subjects. English and science in particular. In class nine, in a substitution period,…