Secret of Successful Teaching: A journey With Innovation

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Editor’s note – In this unique article, the author shares and discusses the positive events, innovations, experiences and challenges that he has had the opportunity to explore in rural West Bengal through his career as a social worker.

Author’s Note – This article includes some of the positive initiatives that I have witnessed during my work with schools (as a social worker, researcher and program coordinator). I hope that this will add to our knowledge base and will improve the delivery of quality education as a whole.

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How your tax money and my life were wasted

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Editor’s note – This narrative is from a European student who visited India to learn Hindi. The narrative revolves around the author’s general educational experience in a government school for which they had received scholarship to attend.

Author’s note – I am a European, a “professional student” (as a friend once described my mindset), been studying languages for the last decade, even teaching for a few years. Here, in this piece I describe my experience in an Indian government school where I was supposed to learn Hindi.

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