‘Treat your child as an adult’

She said: “Each child varies from the other on the basis of the proportion of intelligence levels.”

While advising teachers about the ways of teaching, Mathur, who provides consultancy to schools for holistic development of pre-primary children, said: “Teachers should discontinue the traditional way of teaching. It should be replaced with the thematic approach. For instance, if a teacher has to teach ‘A’ for apple, he/she should not make the child learn the spelling of apple. Instead, the teachers should draw an apple and give the students essential information about the fruit, like how the plant grows, how the fruit is beneficial and what colour it is. The teacher may take the help of a collage for explaining all this. This unique way will have an everlasting effect on the children.”

Mathur has also taught children at Hounslow Heath Infant School in London and has prepared and designed various textbooks and work books for the pre-primary section. She said that teachers should exchange their classes with each other.

“The ‘my class and my students’ attitude is wrong. The purpose of teaching in a school means the holistic

development of a student. This attitude should be replaced by exchanging classes with each other. This way, children learn how to adjust with other teachers and at times the other teachers may be better at explaining a particular topic to them.”