Our CAS activities have started. We visit Sule High School, Dhantoli every saturday as a part of our CAS activity. It is a government school. The school's principal, Mr. Vasant Rathod had given us the pleasure of interacting with the students there.
The school will completing 100 years this 2012! The architecture of the school is remarkable. By the looks of it, it was constructed sometime back in the '90s.
Anyways.. we are going to teach grade 1st to 4th. All the activities will be written down. Photos will be added and well, experiences will be shared!
So here is the account of my first visit..
1 SEPTEMBER, 2012
Today was my first official visit to Sule High School. I was obviously nervous about it! Frankly, I have never done something like this before. This activity comes in the service part of CAS. The educational facilities in some parts of India are not very established. And similar was the case with this school. So being IB students, it was our duty to provide them with certain provisions and encourage learning.
I paired myself with Meghan Kadam, who is my senior, for conducting the class. We were chose to teach the first grade and to teach them good manners.
I paired myself with Meghan Kadam, who is my senior, for conducting the class. We were chose to teach the first grade and to teach them good manners.
Their class teacher showed us the classroom where we were suppose to teach them. Most of the children there were more inclined towards Marathi than English. So for their convenience we conversed with them in marathi.There were 15-20 kids in the class. They started introducing themselves. After the ice breaking session, we started with the topic good manners.
We taught them to say 'Good Morning' and 'Good evening" and the three magic words PLEASE, SORRY & THANK YOU. We also taught them how to greet the elderly and made a chart and stuck the pictures of good manners there. Then they recited some of the poems they had learned in the school. It was the first time I was interacting with children as a teacher. This was very new to me. After handling these children we realized how challenging it is to be a teacher.
It was a great first experience. The kids were great. I hope we bond more over time.
At the end of the day, I had this satisfied feeling of doing something good for somebody else selflessly.
It is truly said.. Joy is more in giving than in receiving.
Till next time! :)
Supervisors: Kiran Sir, Muktanand Sir, Vijaylaxmi Ma'am
Dear Asmita,
ReplyDeleteVery nice work, it will give you more happiness as you get more involve in the work. Bring out some learning outcomes in your reflection it is necessary and add some photos of activity.
Good Luck for Good Work!