My Fellowship journey

 

I am Kavya S Kadagad. For me it was a beautiful journey at Vidya poshak as a fellow teacher.

             I really felt that I am blessed to be a part of Vidya poshak and to teach rural school children.I have work experience in teaching for 2 months where I had been with students taught math. After that I joined the Yuva fellowship. My journey started with lots of learnings and sessions in one month institute training where I got confidence in handling the students, how to start the class and to end the class with student involvement. Even they told some solutions before what the challenges will be after joining the school that made it easy to manage the things and challenges in school. 

              Starting I faced difficulties in controlling the students even after getting training too. Day by day it’s becoming easy to control by doing energizers and group activities in the classroom.

       By taking some competitions, Students showed their involvement in all activities and they started showing their creativity in doing think tac experiments. I also learned so many things from students like changing variables in think tac experiments. All co-teachers response was good by seeing student’s creativity in the science exhibition.

           Coming to the parents' response initially they just ignored my words when I went for a house visit.  I started to push students to go and inform and share to your parents what they learnt and do in school. After some days when I went for a house visit, parents started sharing their children's daily routines that made me happy and some parents became very friendly. They call and inform, ask about the work , and if students are sick. The bonding with students that I have no words to explain they will share everything with me and ask to take one-on-one calls.

    I am always grateful for their love and care that they showed to me. Overall it was an amazing journey for me at vidya Poshak. Now it became a family and all team members helped me a lot. 

I am very thankful to them. Program manager and fellow mentor motivated me in every step of my learning. Here I got a lot of learnings and different experiences which I never want to forget.