Teacher Plus

Teacher Plus 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.

How do plants begin life on bare rock?Kobita Das Kolli takes us into the silent world of Hyderabad’s ancient granitic ou...
10/07/2025

How do plants begin life on bare rock?

Kobita Das Kolli takes us into the silent world of Hyderabad’s ancient granitic outcrops. It is a world where the mountains are older than the Himalayas.

From crustose lichens that cling to bare stone, to liverworts and mosses that weave intricate mats of life during the monsoon, these plants lay the foundations of future ecosystems. Over time, they transform inhospitable rocks into life-sustaining habitats, capturing moisture and creating soil.

Read here: https://teacherplus.org/2025/ecowatch/rocky-residents/

A simple writing activity can turn into a life-changing journey!In a heartwarming story, Neeraja Raghavan shares how two...
09/07/2025

A simple writing activity can turn into a life-changing journey!

In a heartwarming story, Neeraja Raghavan shares how two teachers, one a 5th-grade Hindi teacher and the other a 2nd-grade EVS teacher, join forces to tackle a growing concern: children just don’t want to write anymore.

Inspired by an idea from a research paper and driven by their shared passion, the two teachers decided to get their students to write letters to each other. Across states. Across schools.

What began as a way to rekindle the love for writing evolved into something much more deep. As students exchanged letters, they also exchanged curiosity, empathy, and excitement. Soon, they wanted to meet their pen pals in person.

What followed was a collaborative project. This is more than a story about a writing activity. It’s about two teachers helped students form connections and community.

Read here: https://teacherplus.org/2025/2025/july-2025/writing-as-a-stepping-stone/

What if square roots could write love letters?Thonisha Joselin Sonia T, a math teacher, shares how she uses the RAFT str...
09/07/2025

What if square roots could write love letters?

Thonisha Joselin Sonia T, a math teacher, shares how she uses the RAFT strategy (Role, Audience, Format, Topic) to bring creativity and joy into her classroom. In one standout activity, students wrote love letters from a square root to its whole number.

Students not only had fun, but they also learned new mathematical concepts from a unique, imaginative perspective.

Read how students learn through love letters in her class here: https://teacherplus.org/2025/classroom-update/math-meets-creativity-a-raft-journey/

What happens when teachers write with their students, not just assign writing assignments?Nupur Hukmani explores the oft...
08/07/2025

What happens when teachers write with their students, not just assign writing assignments?

Nupur Hukmani explores the often-overlooked power of writing as a tool for both teaching and learning. Through conversations with seven educators, she uncovers a truth. Writing isn't just about language. It’s about thinking, planning, feeling, and connecting.

She adds, writing builds more than literacy. It cultivates self-awareness, emotional regulation, collaboration, and executive function.

And reminds us that schools must create time and space for everyone to write, not just students, but teachers too.

Read here: https://teacherplus.org/2025/cover-story/writer-or-educator-a-journey-through-writing-in-the-classroom/

How do we ensure teachers are trained in ways that are relevant to them?Amit Kohli reflects on the challenges of using t...
07/07/2025

How do we ensure teachers are trained in ways that are relevant to them?

Amit Kohli reflects on the challenges of using training material that is often foreign, written by experts from distant places, in languages and contexts unfamiliar to many teachers in India. The result is a disconnect between theory and classroom reality.

Translation offers a potential bridge, but it isn’t always smooth. Good translation requires more than linguistic accuracy. It demands cultural understanding and emotional resonance.

So, what’s the way forward?

He suggests we look closer to home, at our own teachers. When teachers write about their classroom practices, they contribute to a growing body of practical and local knowledge. These shared stories, especially in regional languages, are tools for real teacher development.

Read here: https://teacherplus.org/2025/2025/july-2025/the-place-of-teacher-writing-in-education/

As schools begin a new academic term, the familiar wave of overwhelm returns. Teachers know that holidays are rarely res...
05/07/2025

As schools begin a new academic term, the familiar wave of overwhelm returns. Teachers know that holidays are rarely restful anymore.

With technology and smartphones blurring the boundaries between work and life, even breaks are consumed by lesson prep, admin tasks, and the pressure to stay “productive.” Given how holidays are barely restful these days, editor Usha Raman reminds teachers of the need to focus on downtime

“By all means, use them (breaks) to catch up on subject-related reading and to hone your teaching ideas, but prioritise the downtime to recharge your batteries – emotional, psychological, and physical. Let’s not forget that being an educator, while rewarding, can be extremely sapping on all these dimensions,” she writes in her latest editorial.

Cover illustration designed by Niveditha Narendran

Read here: https://teacherplus.org/2025/editorial/whats-a-vacation-for-anyway/

“It’s Grade X… how am I going to fit this in?”That was Juliet Nancy’s first reaction when she signed up for a course on ...
30/06/2025

“It’s Grade X… how am I going to fit this in?”

That was Juliet Nancy’s first reaction when she signed up for a course on “seeing missed takes in mistakes.”

With syllabus pressure looming large, she still chose to try by changing how her classroom saw errors. What followed was two weeks of building trust, sharing her learning journey, and gently making space for mistakes.

Want to know what changed for her and her students?

Read here: https://teacherplus.org/2025/2025/june-2025/precision-in-practice-turning-errors-into-opportunities/

At a family wedding, Timira learnt about her cousin’s team at DoorDash. They are building autonomous food delivery robot...
28/06/2025

At a family wedding, Timira learnt about her cousin’s team at DoorDash. They are building autonomous food delivery robots that learn by engaging with the world, just like humans are meant to. That encounter sparked a larger question for Timira: Why doesn’t our education system do the same?

Why are learners cut off from the world they’re meant to understand? Teachers are thinkers; why have they been reduced to simply executing?

Read here: https://teacherplus.org/2025/2025/june-2025/teacher-autonomy-its-time-we-claim-what-is-rightfully-ours/

Two women. Two teachers. One shared truth — they’ve given everything to their classrooms, but the system hasn’t given ba...
27/06/2025

Two women. Two teachers. One shared truth — they’ve given everything to their classrooms, but the system hasn’t given back.

From rigorous pre-service training to mentoring others, Teachers R and A have risen to the challenges. Yet, non-academic duties, irregular support, and invisible voices weigh them down.

As Shishu Ranjan writes, “Educators like Henry Giroux, Paulo Freire, and bell hooks have advocated that teachers should be seen as transformative intellectuals rather than as mere technicians. It is important to engage teachers in curriculum formation and planning for educational processes and not just its implementation.”

Read here: https://teacherplus.org/2025/comment/where-does-training-help/

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