Questions are the Answer
[The poster above popped into my WhatsApp feed this morning and two things got me hooked immediately. The speaker, Anita Brooks , is an amazing educationist who is known to manage an entire school, one kid at a time, successfully. The topic - The Power of Effective Questioning in Classrooms - has always been one of my favourite songs to sing when I work with teachers. In fact, one of my sessions in my teacher-training programmes is called, as in the title, Questions are the Answer. Side benefits for carving out a little time in a boring, stay-home day include the fact that Anita is a very close family friend of ours, the Principal of Delhi Public International School, and also that EdTalks sounds a little like Ted Talks which has its own brand value. You can watch the 32 min video here ] Speed of Light and Sound Let me be my own despicable self and criticize the technology first, before I get into the happy job of analysing the content....