Azhar is just 8 years old.
He is the youngest member of our class.
Azhar is also extremely patient with his 74 other classmates who keep jumping around the entire class almost all the time and his two didi's who more often than not give moral science lectures in class, which it doesn't seem, he needs.
This child intrigues me and inspires me.
When I look back at my childhood and my time in school, I realize I was a good kid. I wasn't too naughty and I wasn't too quiet either. I wasn't exceptional in academics, but, I wasn't bad at all.
But, Azhar really makes me think that I could have done a lot better. That I SHOULD have done a lot better.
He is ALWAYS before time. He is one of the very few people who wears a watch to school every single day. He is ALWAYS neat and tidy.
But, that's not what inspires me. I believe Azhar has an AMAZING attention span. At no time in my four to five hours at school, 25 to 28 days in a month does Azhar need to be reminded of how he should sit straight, fold his hands, look at the board and listen. He is ALWAYS paying attention. He is also, always sitting straight with his hands folded and looking at the person teaching or at the board. Azhar also makes me keep a tab on my self.
On days that I tell my class, the time division of what I'm going to teach them...
For eg: "Class, for the first ten minutes, I will be showing you examples of Transparent and Opaque things and in the next 15 minutes I will give you this worksheet in which you will..."
After I finish my examples, and say " Now, for the next fifteen minutes, we will..."
Azhar promptly gets up and say "Didi, you already took 12 minutes and 3 seconds."
He happens to be one of the most sincere and disciplined children in my class and I am sure if he maintains his set of principles to be the same, he will go a LONG way.
Here is a picture of Azhar, right after he finished making sure there is no speck of dirt on the ground, being the cleanliness incharge of our class! :)
He is the youngest member of our class.
Azhar is also extremely patient with his 74 other classmates who keep jumping around the entire class almost all the time and his two didi's who more often than not give moral science lectures in class, which it doesn't seem, he needs.
This child intrigues me and inspires me.
When I look back at my childhood and my time in school, I realize I was a good kid. I wasn't too naughty and I wasn't too quiet either. I wasn't exceptional in academics, but, I wasn't bad at all.
But, Azhar really makes me think that I could have done a lot better. That I SHOULD have done a lot better.
He is ALWAYS before time. He is one of the very few people who wears a watch to school every single day. He is ALWAYS neat and tidy.
But, that's not what inspires me. I believe Azhar has an AMAZING attention span. At no time in my four to five hours at school, 25 to 28 days in a month does Azhar need to be reminded of how he should sit straight, fold his hands, look at the board and listen. He is ALWAYS paying attention. He is also, always sitting straight with his hands folded and looking at the person teaching or at the board. Azhar also makes me keep a tab on my self.
On days that I tell my class, the time division of what I'm going to teach them...
For eg: "Class, for the first ten minutes, I will be showing you examples of Transparent and Opaque things and in the next 15 minutes I will give you this worksheet in which you will..."
After I finish my examples, and say " Now, for the next fifteen minutes, we will..."
Azhar promptly gets up and say "Didi, you already took 12 minutes and 3 seconds."
He happens to be one of the most sincere and disciplined children in my class and I am sure if he maintains his set of principles to be the same, he will go a LONG way.
Here is a picture of Azhar, right after he finished making sure there is no speck of dirt on the ground, being the cleanliness incharge of our class! :)
This post is fantastic. My mom talks about students all the time, being a teacher for the last 27 years, but having to read something as special as this written by a 21 year old is awesome!
ReplyDeleteGreat going.
Now you will know why learnig is called a two-way process..we learn a lot from the students... their behaviour and the reasons behind that, helps us to understand them better and also helps us to evolve better as a teacher... the intelligent questions asked by the students inspires us to study more and we actually begin to study when we begin to teach... we guide the students,bring out their hidden potential and feel proud of them the day they rise ahead of us.. that is why it is only we and our profession... that is celebrated
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