teaching

The day I understood what teaching kindergarten students truly means

My first day as a teacher was unpredictable, loud, and quite different from the classroom I had imagined.
23 April 2026

How D D Mollick is preserving Sultan’s artistic legacy

In Narail, artist D D Mollick runs Charukuthi Shilpalo, a free village art school blending creativity, organic farming, and cultural preservation. Inspired by mentor S M Sultan, Mollick empowers rural children through art, sustainability, and hands-on learning.
14 August 2025

The tough road to university teaching: What aspiring educators must know

The experience of becoming a university lecturer is a story of both passion and hardship.
4 August 2025

University students deserve a better learning experience

In our university classrooms, passive lectures are still the dominant mode of teaching.
11 December 2024

Gamification of teaching languages: A realistic prospect?

The gamification of language teaching has been generating attention from Bangladeshi educators due to its effectiveness.
17 October 2024

The psychological costs of an uprising

The systemic issues make even the admission of one’s struggles a minefield
10 October 2024

Alternative routes

The book as a whole is a rigorously pursued exercise in the close reading of a fascinating and diverse array of modern texts that aren't quite in the category of the canonical mainstream.
28 April 2023

Are you what you read?

Few experiences in life can prepare us to be more sensitive, more inclusive, and generally kinder human beings than reading.
7 April 2023

Life skills children should know by age 10

A burning debate that has been making the rounds recently is that only a handful of people will ever need the principles of algebra in their lives, but everyone will need to do their taxes at some point. Schools cannot and should not have to teach crucial life skills to children because those are best learned under the loving guidance of guardians. Even if 10 is too early to learn how to do complex calculations, there are a good number of basic life skills every child should know by the end of the first decade of their lives. Here’s what child-development experts, career planners and business leaders recommend:
3 November 2022

On the chaos of teaching English

I discover that teaching is more about reading people.
5 October 2022

How children can learn empathy from parents and teachers

Empathy is a complex socio-emotional skill to develop.
13 June 2022

Notes of a first-time English teacher

As the white hot sun pierced through the soufflé clouds on an afternoon a lifetime ago, my aunt and I leaned back a little too precariously on our rattan armchairs while talking about the allure of academe.
27 April 2022

Blindness not an obstacle

To make sense of the world around us, everybody sometimes relies on mental visualisation, using the proverbial “mind's eye”. Teacher
24 November 2017

Law minister leaves programme finding it's sponsored by coaching centre

Law Minister Anisul Huq leaves an award giving ceremony in Dhaka after finding that it is sponsored by a coaching centre.
6 May 2016

[WATCH NOW] The blind Teacher

Fazlul Haque is visually impaired but he is teaching voluntarily at two schools including a govt primary school and a junior high school at the same campus at a remote village Charkhatamari in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila at the Dharla river basin.
9 November 2015

Oxford University fundraising reaches £2bn

University of Oxford campaign to raise funds for teaching and research has raised £2bn, it has been announced.
12 May 2015