It’s a normal day…just going on
normally, the class was also going normal with the listening activities.
Students were participating nicely and some students always want to run from
class whatever we do either it’s a game or study… And yes, today it was no
different. So always I had to lure them to participate and today I had some
dairy milk chocolates for them. If they would listen the audio properly and
answer my question they would get those chocolates. And it worked they
participated as well but now what I am thinking is if it happens regularly how
much budget would I have to separate for chocolates ??????
Then, at 2 pm, we had Ananda and
Prakriti from Himalayan Climate Initiative with their Project ‘The Gen Nep’ at
our school for some information as they were providing ‘Sadbhav Scholarships’
to the students and from them we came to know that they also are working in
collaboration with us for that by providing four needy students the
scholarships from the schools each where TFN fellows are teaching.
They were
making the students feel that the nation comes first among all the others and
we our self have to change first as ‘We are the change’. During the class, I
remembered Swastika di’s question,” I am the change, but who am I? Today when
they were giving the class, a thought came in my mind that we just have to move
one step for the change and in rest of the other steps to move we get many
friends to support us and yes, the same was happening. They were also in our
support on our way of transformation. And they also talked about Gen Nep
Champions and also wanted Jyotidaya’s students to participate in this project
as champions. Then there was an interactive discussion about the organization
and the projects. So today was one of the fruitful day in my opinion till now.And yes, today we were happy to meet Samden at our school as he had returned for his few days vacation from Ekudol..
praising with chocolate seems nice, but what i feel is , this will also emphasise the grading system which has become very dangerous till now. what i mean is ,awarding the best would obviously encourage the winner but at the same time it creates the psychological discouragement to the losers(who could not ans ur question feels themselves as looser).if he or she could not answers you for 2 or 3 days/classes then they loose their hope and interest in your class and also start to think themselves as most useless students in the class.if it continues in other classes they starts hating the books and school.if we peep carefully in our schools/house/society then we can find maximum % of hater/looser. as per my personal childhood experience when there came a chocolate as award and i did not used to get it, i used to felt i am the most disappointed,useless and the most inferior child in the world.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much Devendra Nepali for your suggestion.........I used the chocolates just to grab the student's attention on the audio as they were not focusing on it as I knew they could do far better then what they were performing on listening audios and answering and I was successful to do that as after praising with chocolate they focused towards the audio carefully and moreover we praise the students in their every simple effort so not only one student even if a slow learner is in class he or she will just be appreciated if he makes some effort only. So my commitment is I will not leave even a single child behind to think as a looser.......and till now I am concerned to it and will do the same in future also.........And once again.....thanks a lot for your suggestion.......
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