Everyday , since the beginning of school we just found our selves trying to tell these children to not fight. Everyday atleast ten kids would come and complain " Didi, *ABC* hit me", and then we would call the child out and try and ask what the need was of hitting and tell them how much better everything would be if at all they were to treat everyone with respect.
The talks didn't seem to be making much of a difference because the complaints didn't stop. We felt there was no unity in the class as everyone kept fighting amongst each other and kept complaining. Swati, my coteacher and I were almost getting sick of the fighting and hitting and the complaints and right when we thought nothing was working out TWO things happened.
One, a kid from my class was wrongly accused and confronted about something he hadn't done, which he felt horrible about. It led to him feeling really hurt and he started crying. Within 10 minutes a crowd gathered around him and then there were four others who were crying with the boy. We ran to the scene and tried asking why these other kids from our class suddenly began crying. After sometime of waiting, we discovered, that these kids were crying for the kid who was wrongly accused. They felt hurt that their "FRIEND" was crying. It was overwhelming to see this happening in a class we thought had no sense of unity whatsoever. (Picture above)
Two, while saying out a couple of shout-outs/announcements for some outstanding things that were happening in the class, I opened the floor to the kids so that they could thank whoever they felt was helping them or did something for them in class. In a minute about ten hands shot up. While 5 of them thanked others for sharing their food and the others thanks their classmates for helping them in academic, One of the kids (Lets name him X) got up to thank another kid, [lets name him Y(this kid was known for hitting people)] and said... "didi, today boy from other class was hitting me and Y told him "stop hitting my classmate"".
We were pleasantly surprised.
Since then, everyday we have similar shout-outs and we are seeing more and more kids being united as one class. It's a beautiful feeling.
The talks didn't seem to be making much of a difference because the complaints didn't stop. We felt there was no unity in the class as everyone kept fighting amongst each other and kept complaining. Swati, my coteacher and I were almost getting sick of the fighting and hitting and the complaints and right when we thought nothing was working out TWO things happened.
One, a kid from my class was wrongly accused and confronted about something he hadn't done, which he felt horrible about. It led to him feeling really hurt and he started crying. Within 10 minutes a crowd gathered around him and then there were four others who were crying with the boy. We ran to the scene and tried asking why these other kids from our class suddenly began crying. After sometime of waiting, we discovered, that these kids were crying for the kid who was wrongly accused. They felt hurt that their "FRIEND" was crying. It was overwhelming to see this happening in a class we thought had no sense of unity whatsoever. (Picture above)
Two, while saying out a couple of shout-outs/announcements for some outstanding things that were happening in the class, I opened the floor to the kids so that they could thank whoever they felt was helping them or did something for them in class. In a minute about ten hands shot up. While 5 of them thanked others for sharing their food and the others thanks their classmates for helping them in academic, One of the kids (Lets name him X) got up to thank another kid, [lets name him Y(this kid was known for hitting people)] and said... "didi, today boy from other class was hitting me and Y told him "stop hitting my classmate"".
We were pleasantly surprised.
Since then, everyday we have similar shout-outs and we are seeing more and more kids being united as one class. It's a beautiful feeling.
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