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Welcome to my blog. I share my views on issues related to K-12 Education (and sometimes, on general non-political issues) in this blog. I hope that you find it interesting.

23 December 2009

Quality Accreditation in Schools

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I happened to read a newspaper report “Quality Council of India introduces accreditation standard for schools” in THE HINDU dated 22 Decembe...
03 December 2009

When can a Curriculum tick?

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What do we need to implement quality curriculum in a given school situation? This article attempts to answer the question to some extent.  ...
27 November 2009

School based curriculum development

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Traditionally, all over the world, schools rely on textbook publishers to achieve syllabus requirements. Hence, the greatest responsibility...
14 September 2009

Computers in the Classroom

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“In the year 5555 Your arms are hanging limp at your side, Your legs got nothing to do, Some machine’s doing that for you.” So sang Denny ...

Questioning Techniques in the Classroom

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A few months back, I read the following classroom joke on the web:  Middle school science teacher: What is germination? Pupil: It is the pro...

CBSE Board Exams

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Recently there have been media reports that Class X Public Examinations conducted by Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi, are go...
20 August 2008

K-12 Curriculum: A bird's eye view

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From my experience in K-12 systems and education publishing, I think that the most important requirement to reach curricular objectives, in...
19 August 2008

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Guruprasad Panamalai
Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
I am a retired K-12 Education Management Professional. I have worked at different levels in K-12 school systems, textbook publishing, elearning and Education NGOs. I have held memberships in The Association for Science Education (UK), American Association of Physics Teachers and The Malaysian Institute of Physics. I hold a 1st class B Sc Degree in Physics followed by B Ed [English and Physical Science] and M A [Childcare and Education] degrees. My published works include 59 articles in teacher development magazines in India and the US and a book entitled `Creative Classrooms and Child Friendly Schools' (listed in Amazon). This book is almost an anecdotal account of my professional experience in six countries (including Cambodia where I worked as Technical Adviser to the Ministry of Education, Youth And Sports). I served as mentor in the Certificate of Teaching Mastery Program offered by Teachers Without Borders.
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