Changing Things A Little Bit…Against Popular Choice!
Until then, the mutiny aboard Street Smart seemed to have worked this time… at least for two successive days!
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When A Teacher Does Not Learn
One of the saddest things is for an educator to show inability to learn. It is catastrophic to assume that the role of a teacher is simply limited to teaching students. In fact, in a career that requires teaching lessons and values to the impressionable minds of the young, it is of paramount importance to … Read more
Questions With No Set Answers
So on the way back from Bindal, we are approached by the father of one of our kids. Up until now, we only knew that the family was Nepali, the parents work here as daily-wage labours and have one child- a daughter- who stays back at home while the parents work. Suddenly, on that day, the father comes up and says…
Training Government Teachers To Special Train!
SCERT kindly- and much to our surprise- invited us to give inputs about street children and children from the slum and our “lecture” focussed primarily on how the temperament of our kids is vastly different from the kind of children that teachers are used to handling, in classrooms. So one of our suggestions was to…
A Miracle
Why no one brought the child to us straight away i do not know, but 3 months later this child was in acute distress as the family, who had been bankrupted seeking treatment for her, had now resorted to home made receipts of haldi and methi paste. The wounds were still raw and seeping and now open to infection. As…
Stretching Fun!
At the start of our program, we do some basic stretching exercises with the children and of late, we noticed that it was becoming rather monotonous. Plus, with the Groton group around, all eyes follow them wherever they go and whatever they do! So we had the Groton students leading the exercises on Tuesday, i.e. … Read more
Art And A Happy Crowd!
The group of 25-odd students and their 2 teachers sat through a small background that we gave them about The Bindal Project. They also joined our kids in prayers and later, when the painting started, formed small groups with our kids to paint on chart papers or A4 sheets.
Exams Approach-eth!
We were scared that by putting a few children aside and working individually with them, we would make them feel inadequate but turns out, everybody wants to be enrolled in the one-to-one classes! So the kids walk in with their registers and well-rehearsed “Oh, English mein problem hai” or “Exams aa rahe hain,…
Boarding Schools Aboard!
For the rest of the time and with the rest of the boys, we have started a one-to-one program where the weaker students or those with very little attention span are tutored individually by the Doon School boys. The arrangement however, needs a little structuring and once we have that in place, this will be a huge…
Where We Started From
Is that too clichéd a title for the first post of any blog?
