Para Teacher in Govt school for Child Education

Dear donors, greeting from Gram Vikas Trust, Bharuch (GVT).

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”

- Carl Rogers

As you are aware that we place Para Teachers in Government school, where there is lack of teachers and the number of the children is more. In Bharuch district, especially in the rural blocks there are so many vacancies of teachers but the teachers do not want to go into interior villages as there is lack of basic facilities and the issue of the teachers remain same.

Till date we have place many teachers with low pay, the teachers are from the same community only, so that he/she can understand the issue of the local context and teach children properly. He/she also helps in school administration work, to help other teachers, so that the work can be spread and the load of the work get less.

In one of the village of Jhagadia block we have placed Bharatbhai (name changed) as a para teacher. During the first month we observed that he was very shy and do not able to mix with the teachers as well as with the children. Our Field Mentor regularly motivated him and tried to find out the best qualities hidden within him so that the children can get best out of him. Few days later he started mingling with all the other teachers and children.

Once we interviewed him and asked about his own experience for the teaching and learning experience as a Para Teacher in the school, he shared that when he joined he was having the inferiority complex within him and low self-confidence, as there are government teachers who are earning more than him, dressed well but later he think that he is there to teach to the kids, the kids who will be the future of my village, for the overall development of the village the kids have to get educated as he could not.

There are number of schools which are having less teachers for the numbers of reasons, but after all the kids have to suffer.

Dear well-wishers,

"A good teacher is like a candle, it consumes itself to light the way to others."

-Unknown

In this project report I would like you to take to the classrooms where our Para Teachers are actively educating the pupils with their innovative ideas and creative ways of studying. Ms. Simran (name changed) has completed her PTC but due to family restrictions she was unable to do the teachers job. She is from the same village where there are less government teachers. While interacting with the community members and teachers of the school we come to know about Simran. Usually we hire the Para Teachers based on the availability of the local level highest education in the village or nearby villages.

But we have got the best opportunity that we can get the qualified teacher for the village, we approached Simran and her family members for the Para Teacher, initially her father was not ready to allow her for this job, but later he got convinced for the village and school development.

Simran is very active girl, she uses different teaching techniques to teach the children, play different games with children to improve their interest about teaching and learning. We have seen the changes in the school after Simran has joined us. The attendance ratio has increased, students are happily coming to school to play games and study.

In this rural school there are only two government teachers and the students strength is 134, while interacting with the community and school teachers we come to know that there is not enough teachers in the school and for this reason most of the students did not attend school, as well the teachers also not able to teach the large number of students with the loads of other government work.

Now the happy faces are seen in the village, the teachers are also happy that they got the companion to help and support them, and the students a good friend and also a teacher.

Thanks for your continuous support.