Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Thoughtfulness and Understanding - Dolly Pharasi
Thoughtfulness and understanding - Neelam Bhardwaj
Thoughtfulness is acting with thought and good sense. An important component of thoughtfulness is showing concern.
The 3 tools that can be used in the classroom to inculcate thoughtfulness about the right things among the students.
1. Be a helping hand
Being helpful means doing all it takes to care for others, be it your family, friends or community. It is a gesture of showing concern out of kindness. There are many ways children can be taught to be helpful. Children repeat words and actions they admire hence the best way to teach students to be helpful is by example. Children want to be involved. The teacher should start encouraging them to find ways to help others. Get along with the students and ask them to help in rearranging the tables and chairs, put up the charts in the classroom, emptying the dustbins, and put them in proper places. Do some activities in the classroom to stimulate creativity and get everyone involved in active ways. The children learn and begin to help others.
2. Celebration of togetherness
We live in a country with diversity. Students come from different religious backgrounds and cultures. Every culture and religion has its own faiths and beliefs, and the children should be taught to respect every religion. The best way to learn about other cultures is by celebrating the festivals together. Celebrating or talking about other religions allows the students to appreciate and respect others' faith. It is the best way to make them understand the fact that all religions spread peace and respect. Students come together to celebrate the festivals in the school. In this way, they become thoughtful and kind towards everyone without any kind of discrimination.
3. Get to know each other
Every student is different. Still, they all are equal in the eyes of a teacher. Children come from different backgrounds. To understand the students better, a teacher needs to spend individual time and communicate with the students. It helps to develop an awareness of students' challenges and needs. In this way, a teacher can help the students. When the teacher and the students have a better understanding, they build trust. Every individual feels genuinely valued for who they are and what they contribute as a unique individual.
Understanding
Understanding is the agreement of opinions or feelings. It's the adjustment of differences. To be understanding towards the world around you, you need to develop empathy.
Here is one of the many classroom activities that can be performed to encourage empathy among the students.
Circle Time
Kindness is a natural human response that doesn't need much encouragement. However, it is something that should be practised regularly. Kindness and empathy can be taught in the classroom.
Circle time is one of the activities that can be conducted in the classroom to encourage understanding of the world to the children.
This activity can be performed in the classroom or outside on the ground. Ask the students to sit in a circle. Every child should have a paper and pen where they have to write.
Someone you helped on that day
Somebody helped you on that day.
It can be any big or small act of help. After writing, they all will share about it in the circle one by one. Other students must listen quietly. As everyone shares their incidents, they can relate them to one another and experience different emotions. They understand what it feels like to help someone and how it feels when someone helps you in need. In the end, the children will come to the centre one by one and speak out about anyone emotion they felt or understood during the session and all those who felt the same emotion will raise their hands.
This activity is a good way to encourage understanding and kindness among the students. Sharing nice and positive things with others makes them feel heard and affirmed by others.
- Neelam Bhardwaj @JMMS, John Martyn Memorial School, Salangaon, Dehradun
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Unity and Caring - Achievers JMMS
Listen to the story of unity and caring, where the children learn that being united and together, helps them to achieve everything in their life.
Wednesday, September 2, 2020
Thoughtfulness and Understanding - Swabhi Parmar
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Thoughtfulness and Understanding - Nikita Rajpurohit
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World Population Day - Kusum Sharma
Thursday, June 18, 2020
Hope and Friendship - Ajay Vijayvargi
Each one of us has friends, but it is difficult to have/find true friends. Each one of us have a different definition of a friend, let us some of them – he is a person who understands us, makes us feel good, trustworthy, not judgmental, always keep in touch, listen to us when the world has left us, keeps communication uninterrupted and clear, accept you like yourself. Though it is difficult to find all qualities in a single person even if he has few of these in him, he will be our friend - our Hope in life. Whenever an incident happens to show our solidarity and our concern we light candles (Nirbhaya case) similarly when we light diyas on Diwali we do it to show our hope to remove the darkness of ignorance, fear etc. Hope can be our map to success, making our journey easier, helping us to cope up with stresses, it will help us to ignore hardships and sufferings, and give us inspiration, motivation and a mindset to achieve our goals. It helps us in making our lives better and is the essence of life. One we choose hope everything is possible, it is a belief that things will be alright and a small ray of hope helps us to fight immense darkness. Ajay Vijjayvargi The Fabindia School avi@fabindiaschools.in
Friday, June 12, 2020
Unity & Caring - Super7 BHIS
When work is done in a unified manner for obtaining a common goal, the participants develop a special relationship among themselves - they demonstrate unity. A pertinent example will be our group - Super7. Many of us joined as complete strangers but as the sessions move forward we are working together and moving towards the common goal of internalising the necessary values.
Once there was a CCA class for basketball. A new coach had joined the school on that day and it was his first class. There is a child in my class with special needs and she had opted for basketball. For some reason, she wasn’t able to communicate with the coach what she wanted. She felt shy to talk to a coach about her own needs. She had a specific problem and wanted to take rest on that day. The other children in my class came together leaving their match and conveyed to the coach about the child’s need. The coach then understood and the smile on the child’s face was commendable. This shows there is unity in the whole class and the care was also not missed for each other.
Caring for and helping other people is driven by deep value-based motivations and concerns to make a positive and practical difference to the lives of other people. Caring can take many forms. At home, it might involve being a parent or looking after an elderly, sick, disabled or needy member of the family. Outside the family it might involve voluntary work in all sorts of organisations that help particular groups of people, for example, befriending the elderly, providing home help or gardening, tutoring school children etc.
Caring allows an individual to connect with others, respecting human dignity and responding with compassion. Actively listening and being emotionally present, as well as providing support for important aspects of caring relationships. I had one special child in my class. He was a mild autistic child. A shadow teacher always accompanied him. We wanted him to become independent. He used to do most things independently but whenever he wanted to go to the washroom he needed shadow teacher’s support. We wanted to remove his anxiety so we had decided that we will try to send him alone to the washroom. We will just keep an eye on him. So one day I purposely sent the shadow teacher out from the class. During recess, I asked him to go to the washroom. He was searching for his teacher, but I forced him to go alone. Suddenly Kewal, one boy from the class came to me and said, “Teacher I will go with him, How would he go alone’’? All other students were also ready to go with him but no one wanted him to go alone. I was surprised and felt proud that whatever we taught them in the class about helping and caring for others, they are following that. I could see emotional attachment and caring nature in all the children. Care or concern automatically become an inherent part of the teaching-learning process. Teachers continue to try endlessly only because they care. Students listen to us because they can feel our concern. As a teacher, it's our responsibility not only to address the academic need of a child but also to help him enhance his overall personality. To be able to do so, teachers need to know their learners well which can be achieved through patient listening. Teachers need to be good listeners and sharp observers. It is also important for teachers to be able to demonstrate the feeling of compassion. We need to treat each child with respect and provide constructive criticism. Even while reprimanding a child, we need to demonstrate our concern. Only then will a child realize the mistake and strive to mend his ways. Care is generated by the way we act toward every student, in class. Care comes when a student sees you treat a difficult student with compassion, courtesy and kindness - particularly at the most difficult of times. Teachers genuinely care about their students as they come into the classroom with very different circumstances. Knowing about those will help make the learning experience much more successful. Unity in a class gives students courage, power and strength. We can see unity in the classroom when students work together in order to complete the target, some students create groups so that they can help each other in studies as unity always supports and helps. If students work alone there can be chances that people get defeated, but if they work as a team chances of success increases as they come up with creativity.
Super 7 @ Billabong High International School, Thane -Sayantani Mukherjee, Dimple Awasthi, Ritu Chitnis, Manjusha Saji, Jyoti Ramdhave, Vijaylaxmi Ramesh & Sumati Muthukumar
Unity & Caring - Harmony BHIS
Riya felt a gush of delight in her heart and was thankful for such wonderful friends in her life.
The moment we adopt a sense of caring for others it brings us inner strength and greater self-confidence. Caring for others helps us sustain our peace of mind.
"We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity." - Maria Montessori
- Abira Chakraborty, Pooja Khona, Bhumika Ailsinghani, Rajshri Rane, Soniya Kuril, Poonam Choudhary, Kavita Shetty
Sunday, May 10, 2020
A Peaceful Home - Sharmila Vijayvargi
Saturday, April 11, 2020
Caring - Manisha Deora

Monday, March 2, 2020
Happiness and Tolerance - Optimizers SHS
- Rosa Rai <rosarai2020@gmail.com> for Optimizers at Sacred Heart School Siliguri
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
छोटी - छोटी बातों की तरफ ध्यान देना आवश्यक
Founder of Good Schools Alliance, author, educator, and adventurer empowering children to discover the magic of literature.
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
प्रथम प्रयास में ही सही काम करें
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