Notes from ten years of teaching
Written for the families I actually teach — families all over the world, dealing with a curriculum change, a language slipping away, or a child who has decided they are bad at Maths.
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Spoken Hindi for children growing up abroad: conversation first, script second
6 min read
Most children raised abroad already understand a good deal of Hindi. What they lack is the habit of speaking it, and starting with the alphabet is the slowest way to build that habit.
Hindispoken languagefamilies abroadWhy students “understand” Physics in class and then freeze in the exam
8 min read
A student who follows every step in a Physics lesson can still sit in the exam unable to start. The gap is between knowing a formula and choosing one, and choosing is a skill that can be taught.
PhysicsparentsEnglish comprehension is a reasoning skill: how to teach inference
6 min read
Children who read fluently still lose marks on inference questions. Those questions are built to a pattern, and once a student can see it, reading between the lines stops being a talent and becomes a skill that can be practised.
EnglishparentsThe hour that disappears: rescheduling classes when the world changes its clocks
7 min read
Daylight saving time moves a cross-border timetable seven times a year, and not all in the same direction. Here is why it catches teachers and families out, and the system we use so no child waits alone in an empty class.
online tutoringfamilies abroadparentsIB Maths AA vs AI: which should my child choose?
6 min read
The two IB Mathematics courses are not an easy version and a hard one. They teach different kinds of Mathematics, and the right choice depends on what your child wants to study after the Diploma.
IBMathematicschoosing coursesparentsHow an hour a week changes the way a child thinks
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Parents book tuition for marks, and marks are the slowest thing to move. What changes first is how a child handles not knowing something — and that is the part worth watching.
child developmentconfidencehow I teachparentsWhat online tutoring actually does better than a classroom
6 min read
Online tuition is usually sold as the convenient option. Convenience is the least interesting thing about it — four of the differences are structural, and one of them is a genuine loss.
online tutoringhow I teachparentsKeeping Hindi alive when no one at school speaks it
3 min read
Children abroad lose Hindi in a predictable order — writing first, then reading, then speech. Knowing the order tells you where to intervene.
Hindispoken languagefamilies abroadWhat actually changes when your child switches from CBSE to IGCSE
3 min read
Families relocating abroad are usually told the curricula are "broadly similar". They are not, and the differences show up in specific, fixable places.
curriculummoving abroadIGCSECBSE
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