Abhyodaya world School is a school which is run by Mrs.
Bhagyashree Gandhe along with her parents. This school has students mostly from
farmer families or students from families from nearby villages who are not able
to pay fees. This school provides education to such students at very subsidized
fees. Our CAS coordinator Ms. Vijayalaxmi ma’am informed us about this school
and proposed the idea to visit the school for one full day as teachers. We were
told to hold periods for the classes selected by us, and we were informed that
we have to teach them many various sorts of things. We decided to teach them as
per their age. I had selected KG-1 for myself as I believe I am very
comfortable with junior kids and can handle them and their naughtiness. I had
planned to provide the students some pre-drawn figures to be colored, like,
Panda and bear, also I taught them some rhymes and asked them to sing some
rhymes they were taught before, very enthusiastically not only they sang it to
us but also in different languages like Hindi, Marathi & English. Besides
living in the villages and being under-privileged they had a good command on
their English speaking and were in discipline all the time.
As
we arrived at the school we were welcomed by the kids by giving flower bouquets
and chanting prayers at the assembly, giving speeches. The way they delivered
their speeches and the welcome prayer I felt so proud about my country that I
was speechless. After the assembly we headed to the respective classes we
selected according to our convenience. For the first period I had planned to
interact with the kids so that I get to know about them and they feel
comfortable, because according to me if a little child is not comfortable with
you he or she will not be able to talk to you the way he or she does with the
other familiar to them.
For
the second period as I had specified in the introduction I gave them worksheets
with uncolored images of different animals etc. at that instance I discovered
that almost all of them were multitalented, because the way they colored those
images was way better from what I used to do at their age and also from what I
see in other schools. One problem I faced during the coloring session was that
when any of the kids would ask me about “what color he/she should fill in was”,
because I am really bad at all these activities.
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| Me taking a look at the coloring sheet of a KG-1 student |
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| The kids while the rhyme session |
After
this session it was time for lunch, and as I mentioned before they were in discipline
all the time. They headed over to wash their hands as per their classes
turn-by-turn and in a line, and then over to lunch. At the lunch area the kids
sat down and started with the prayer to thank god that he gave them food to
eat.
After
the lunch we headed over to our respective classes again for the 2nd
half of the day in which I had planned to make the kids play a bit and also
play along with them. The kids played football dodge ball etc. after the sports
session we divided all the students of the school in two groups and took them
to the hall where we had planned to show them some videos according to their
age, like the juniors were shown so animated movies about good habits and all,
and the senior kids were shown some educational videos.
Overall
this activity generated teamwork in me and also I got an experience of sharing
my knowledge with the kids. Also I liked the behavior of the kids and I would definitely
want to visit the school again.
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A goodbye picture with some of the students of Abhyodaya World School |
