Education
Don’t Listen to Me, Says This Teacher to Her Students
When the nation faces a dearth of teachers, Teach For India campaign many to the front who have put in efforts and positively brought about a change. Here’s a story of one such teacher, Nirali Vashisht.
When people just out of their college are per month earning more than their entire college fees, professionals now prefer to move out of India and search for better options there. There are innumerable software developers, hardware professionals, media professionals, and what not! However, there’s a gradual yet steady drop in the overall number of teachers in India … a drop to the level of dearth.
And that’s when Teach for India initiative came up bringing some teachers to the fore front. Here’s Nirali Vasisht … a professional who never wanted to be anything other than a teacher. Her mission was education, her vision was teaching. She started with Lord Krishna Public School, Delhi … a locality where the students had a “zero access to education.” The students or even the teachers were hardly expecting anything out of themselves.
When she joined the school, there were students in Kindergarten, who should have been in Class 5. Their education was limited to Kindergarten. With Nirali starting to teach them, educate them, they soon started writing, reading books what students of Classes 3-4 would have. It was a great deal achieved by Nirali, but yet what bothered her was the question whether or not these students can evolve on their own, whether or not can they think on their own when Nirali is not around. Also if these students will be able to think beyond classrooms.
Nirali pushed them and they grew, what if she did not. And then she started asking them not to listen to her all the time. She rather asked them to think on their own, more than what she asked them to do.
And today, these kids, who once had no thinking, now don’t wait for their teacher, Nirali. If in case of confusion, they consult the encyclopedia, they consult the dictionary, if the confusion stays, they head to Nirali!
That’s where we’d like our students to reach … That’s the zeal we’d like to have in each and every teacher in India.
Check the video here to know more about her …
