Sunday, 26 January 2014

From the teacher's diary: 1



This happened about 4 years ago. A girl in class 7 used to run off from school to her house which was four buildings away screaming. This happened especially during exams.
The other days were not very different. The teachers never liked her. They would tease her saying that she could speak anything under the sun except academics.
Every evening was an ordeal as she could not finish her homework and was beaten up by her mother.

One fine day she thought her hardship would end as there was a special person who came into her life. A special educator intervened and asked the management to read out the questions to her and she could take the tests orally. The management agreed upon it halfheartedly, but the teachers continued to torture her and was treated as if she was an alien.
It was a relief for her one day when the parents decided to take her out of the school. She was enrolled in a learning centre which catered to children with learning difficulties. There were only 4 students. How Anne Sullivan taught Helen Keller to speak, she was taught to read and write exploiting her modalities of learning.
Can you believe that this girl was able to get an 80% in her 10th board NIOS?
It happened because she was given the accommodation of scribe who would read the question paper and write for her which she said orally.
Do not underestimate her as she was given a scribe. The scribe was given to her on the spot and she did not know the scribe previously and the scribe was 2 years younger to her.
Now she is in 12th and is going to appear for her 12th NIOS board.
Isn’t her work incredible?



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