This year's first Learning Forward Saturday session was to set our agenda straight with all sincerity. As a teacher, I want to ask difficult questions of myself and my community about teaching and learning. These questions can unsettle us and push us to the verge of wanting to leave the profession and feeling exhausted. Both these circumstances motivated me to take a challenge to our collective of reading a report done by the Language and Learning Foundation on teaching and learning.
Teaching is not a regular job. It requires patience, compassion, a kind heart, self-awareness and lots of good cake and coffee (because how else will you survive the burnout?). While these are essentials, we require dedication towards research. The Oxford definition of 'research' as a verb is 'investigate systematically'. When we read a research report with findings and recommendations, we read, reflect and see what we can take from it. In our session, we took up questions and thought of various ways we assume certain things about children, learning and teaching. Can we undo these and feel safe enough to bring it to our group? At Learning Forward Saturday, we are constantly trying to create a space that would invite our limitations and reflections.
Anyone interested to read this report to find out the ground reality from our classrooms, please have a look at it- https://languageandlearningfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Full-Report_TLPS_2025_December.pdf.
Head Training and Development at the Learning Forward India Foundation
