From starting digital classrooms to teaching inside a container and on the streets @ Happy Teacher Day!!!!!
In Kandivali a 23-year-old chartered accountant has a reputation that precedes him. For six years now, Prince Tiwari has been teaching children living on the streets, giving up his CA dreams in the process.
Exactly two years ago, the Urdu school number 6 of M-East Ward in Shivaji Nagar, Govandi, became the first municipal school with a ‘digital classroom’. The classroom was started on an experimental basis by Mohammed Zeeshan, a teacher in the school, but soon became a hit and was emulated in other BMC schools soon after.
Zeeshan had joined as a teacher in the BMC in 2011 and as soon as he joined the Govandi school he realised that dropout rates were high in the school. So, instead of just signing the muster and doing the job like any other teacher, he decided to try an experiment to keep the children from dropping out.
“I resorted to an innovative and animated version of the textbook stories, picking up from online videos on digital classrooms,” Zeeshan recalled. “It became a hit with the children. So I decided to take it up a notch by introducing power point presentations and audio-visual clips for Class VI students,” he said.
The bigger challenge was to adapt the text-heavy syllabus to digital teaching techniques. “But soon other teachers joined in and we started preparing our own presentations and curating videos we could show on phone,” he said. There was no projector in the school at this point and it was then that Zeeshan sought a projector from the BMC.
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