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Teacher Plus, the magazine for school teachers, brings you thought-provoking features about education and ideas for your classroom month after month.

Teacher Plus, created in 1989, is a magazine for the practicing teacher who wants to keep up with trends in education and find ways to energize his or her classroom with new ideas and approaches. Teacher Plus is published monthly from Hyderabad. It draws from a large pool of contributors from across India, persons with experience in varied aspects of education, from primary school teaching to tack

ling board exams to the place of art and craft in learning, to child development and classroom management. Each month brings the reader a mix of thought-provoking features and hands-on activities that can be adapted for use in most classrooms. It is a forum within which teachers can raise their concerns, discuss ideas, and share and update their knowledge. Teacher Plus discusses alternative ways of thinking and doing within the context of the Indian classroom, while recognizing the constraints that most teachers face, day to day. The magazine contains all your favourite subjects, as well as an attractive centre spread illustrating a project theme which alternates with a set of worksheets.

10/10/2025

Neerja Singh explores how AI chatbots, that were once simple tools, are now being designed to mimic human personalities. These have now transformed from friendly mentors to digital “companions,” that blur the line between reality and simulation.

As a result, educators face a new challenge: preparing students to navigate relationships, information, and their own identity in a world where machines can pretend to care.

Neerja shares five key practices teachers can use to help students build digital literacy, critical thinking, and emotional awareness.

“For teachers, the imperative is not only to educate but to empower – giving students the tools to recognize digital danger, question online realities, and act responsibly,” she says.

Read here: https://teacherplus.org/2025/a-step-ahead/ai-chatbots-and-digital-danger-how-teachers-can-prepare-students-for-a-safe-online-future/

09/10/2025

Aprajita Ralli believes that inclusion should move from being represented in posters to being put into practice, and from awareness to action.

She shares the example of Sreenidhi International School, where gender sensitivity isn’t a one-time campaign. The school uses everyday experiences and tools to teach students about culture and relationships.

She shares how initiatives like Suraksha Kavach (in partnership with the Cyberabad Police) and Equality Starts at Home empower students and families to challenge stereotypes, advocate for safety, and practice equality in real ways.

Read here: https://teacherplus.org/2025/gender-bender/from-awareness-to-action-schools-as-catalysts-for-gender-sensitivity-and-inclusion/

07/10/2025

Children are natural explorers; they pause for an ant, listen to rustling leaves, and marvel at the finer details that adults often miss.

Based on this, Ankita Rajasekharan and Shikha Nain introduced ‘Stop, Look and Wonder’—a contextual curriculum by Earth Focus Foundation that blends traditional wisdom with modern pedagogy.

Rooted in the Kanha region, it invites educators and children to slow down, observe, ask questions, and build a deeper connection with Nature. This programme has already reached 2800+ children across 36 villages.

Read here: https://teacherplus.org/2025/2025/october-2025/stop-look-and-wonder-building-a-context-based-learning-curriculum/

06/10/2025

In a diverse country like ours, classrooms are filled with children from varied cultural, linguistic, and social backgrounds. But do all of them feel seen, heard, and valued?

Aruna Sankaranarayanan reflects on what it takes to build truly inclusive classrooms, where every child, regardless of language, caste, class, gender, or ability, feels worthy.

Drawing on bell hooks’ ‘Teaching to Transgress’, she reminds us that cultural sensitivity is not a one-time effort but an ongoing practice. Teachers can make an effort to listen to silences in the classroom and recognize systemic inequalities.

Read here: https://teacherplus.org/2025/2025/october-2025/curating-culturally-sensitive-classrooms/

04/10/2025

When we go on safaris, we often hope to spot the “stars” — tigers, lions, elephants, rhinos. But nature has so much more to offer if we pause and look: birds, reptiles, insects, and the rich flora that completes the ecosystem.

Mamata Pandya reminds us that India’s Protected Areas are not just about the big animals, but also about conserving entire landscapes and their cultural value.

She also shares a fun challenge: 15 quiz questions on National Parks.

Think you can get them all right? Take the quiz here: https://teacherplus.org/2025/2025/october-2025/wild-india-safari/

03/10/2025

Teaching today isn’t what it was a decade ago. Students now live in a world of reels, short videos, and instant content. It is no surprise that their attention spans are constantly shrinking. Surabhi Agarwal explores the growing challenge of holding children’s attention in class. She addresses questions like:

- What does attention deficit look like?
- Why are students so distracted?
- How can teachers help students stay focused?

Teaching is no longer just about delivering lessons; it’s about adapting, unlearning and experimenting. Tell us in the comments how you are holding your students’ attention 👇🏼

Read here: https://teacherplus.org/2025/cover-story/the-attention-deficit-conundrum/

02/10/2025

Festivals are here, which means we are surrounded by glittering offers, loud advertisements, and endless shopping. But in all that noise, do we forget the festival itself and what it means?

Editor Usha Raman reflects on how rituals, often dismissed as empty habits, can actually anchor us. From lighting diyas and singing carols to morning assemblies and ringing school bells, rituals give us rhythm and help connect with ourselves and each other.

Not all rituals need to be blindly followed, but in their beauty and repetition, they can help us rediscover meaning, focus, and a sense of belonging, she adds.

Read here: https://teacherplus.org/2025/editorial/the-meaning-of-ritual/

01/10/2025

Teacher Plus is going mobile!

For over three decades, Teacher Plus has been a trusted space for educators to share ideas, experiences, and practices. We’re now building the Teacher Plus App—a dedicated platform for teachers to connect, learn, and grow.

We are inviting app developers and development teams to share their pitches and proposals for collaborating with us.

Write to us at [email protected] with your ideas, and be part of creating something impactful for the teaching community.

29/09/2025

Could modern schools still echo the gurukul system?

Through a system of community living which went beyond books, marks, and exams, where teachers instilled values and life skills in their students. Although modern technology has made knowledge accessible, students are disconnected from the philosophy of learning, and experience exam stress and bullying.

Sreevidya M writes that going back to our roots, to the spirit of the gurukul system, might just hold the key to preparing confident, compassionate citizens of tomorrow.

Read more here: https://bit.ly/4pHG70J

28/09/2025

From floods to heatwaves, Indians are already living the climate emergency. Pollution, deforestation, and climate change are no longer abstract theoretical concepts that children read about in their environmental education textbooks.

Real environmental education, writes Sakshi Uniyal, begins when children connect global catastrophes to their daily lives. She shares how programs like the Green Schools Programme turn knowledge into action: audits, gardens, forests, and everyday practices that teach students to see the world through environmental consciousness.

Read the article to know how students in Andhra Pradesh transformed barren land into a forest through the Miyawaki method: https://bit.ly/47V2GbU

27/09/2025

Is a textbook the only way to learn?

Tejas Joshi makes the case for “untextbooking,” and reimagines paper—as modular cards, fold-out puzzles, and creative toolkits.

He argues that we’re not fully utilizing the medium by limiting to one-way content delivery. Instead, we could think beyond the textbook and use paper for origami-based puzzles, biodiversity foldouts, and toolkits, and effectively form a bridge between our digital and analog worlds, between art and science, and teachers and learners.

The idea is not to discard the textbook, but to complement it with tactile, flexible, and artful resources: https://bit.ly/4nHASw4

What do you think?

26/09/2025

Could you imagine a classroom without the usual “front” or “back”? That’s what one Malayalam film, 'Sthanarthi Sreekuttan' imagined.

The powerful visual of U-shaped seating from the film’s climax was then replicated by several teachers in the state. This arrangement brought about more interaction among students and eliminated the divide between “front benchers” and “back benchers”.

Now, the idea is spreading across states, with conversations around what classrooms "should" look like.

Read more here: https://bit.ly/4mKrV4A

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