Teach your students to disobey adults, including you!
Bonus Readings
Richa Prakash dives deep into brain research to surface how brain breaks can help you and your children improve academic performance.
Let us take a look at the insights from Anju Gupta’s action research project on employing multiple teachers in Grade 3.
Mannat Malik explores the need to rethink how we design the lessons we teach for authentic student engagement in the context of reciprocity of learning.
We hope you found this issue of #WorkLessons @Innerkern helpful. Let us give you two more reasons to implement Disobedience Instruction in your school, apart from helping children learn critical thinking for creative and disruptive problem-solving. First, according to our National Achievement Survey 2021, less than 29 out of 100 children in India can identify and respond if someone violates any or all of their fundamental rights. Second, several recent studies revealed that more than 53% of children in India had experienced sexual abuse at least once, and 93% of the perpetrators of the crime were close relatives or neighbors. Many of our children do not know how to say no to an exploitative adult. Given these scenarios, don't you think it is about time we started teaching our children to disobey adults, disagree with them and tell them no?
Thank you for your time.
Warm regards
Rosama Francis & Sojo Varughese
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