New Challenges
Yura Ganjalyan Մարիետ Սիմոնյան I started working with 6th graders in the 2024-2025 academic year. This time my sixth graders were from the Eastern School-Garden, students of Nara Nikoghosyan. The blog-based education…
Mariette Simonyan
Education Should Become a Driving Force for the Development of Society
admin Discussions about the content of education, the form of teaching, the method, the diversity of opinions, the polarization of approaches seem to have accompanied the course of the entire history…
The live mother tongue through live teaching
Author: Mariette Simonyan Translator: Yura Ganjalyan The mother tongue needs special care in the public education system. Not only because it is one of the key factors in the education…
Spiritual Armenia is Becoming a Reality
Spiritual Armenia is not a myth, it is not a brain delusion. I was thinking about this while standing in the yard of the “Holy Resurrection” Church in Tsaghkunk, listening…
Let us not Condemn Ourselves to Being Untimely
My conversation with the 9th graders was unexpected. The topic of conversation was our literature program. I had a successful spontaneous talk the 9th graders. The topic was our literature…
Aimed at Life, Full of Life, in Harmony with Life
From the series “Empathizing Pedagogy” Years ago, when we were discussing William Saroyan’s “Human Comedy” with students, I paid attention to the words of Homer Macaulay. He said that he…
The War Caught up with us Too
“The war caught up with us too” is the first line of William Saroyan’s story The War. We all, my students and me too, appeared on the hottest spot of…
Literary Theatre or Pleasure of Creativity
There is something surprising in the continuity of learning-teaching process, a lifelong continuity. When does teaching begin? What does man learn? How does he learn? Who is the learner and…
To Be Independent, Responsible, Enthusiastic Means To Be Creative
From the Teacher’s Diary Perhaps creativeness is one of the most important factors in the process of education, and it is important that it become stimulus at all the stages…
We Speak More Than We Write
From the Teacher’s Diary As a rule, an important component of teaching the mother tongue is not highlighted in the learner’s activities and is dropped out of the teacher’s attention.…