Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Aug 22: A female teacher from the outskirts of Srinagar who bagged the ‘National Award for Teachers (NAT)-2020’ today said that the teachers should consider their students as their children and should strive to make them good human beings.
While talking exclusively to Excelsior, Roohi Sultana, who is posted at Boys Middle School, Kashipora, Teilbal said that out of 154 submissions for the national award, she surfaced among the top 47 candidates selected for National Award for Teachers-2020.
Roohi is ironically teaching at a school which has got only one room which is housing at least 6 classes, and where, at a time, only one teacher can speak.
Roohi, who is loved by the children at her school, has a Master’s Degree in Urdu as well as in Kashmiri, along with a Bachelor’s Degree in Education.
She is also associated with the JKBOSE in the compilation of Kashmiri and Urdu textbooks. She also has an active role in the creation of e-content under Diksha.
While exhorting on the role of parents in making sure that their children who are enrolled in Govt schools said that only teachers are not enough but parents have to play vital role.
“The teachers at Govt schools are exceptional; they are great, educated and able. But the parents of the kids have got a role in the education of the children. They have to be active in that, they cannot put it all on the shoulders of teachers, that cannot happen,” she said.
About teachers, she said that they should strive to make their students good human beings. The teachers must inculcate good life values in them and the teachers are doing that.
“I am myself teaching at a school which has got only 1 room with 6 classes. At a time one teacher has to speak; all are studying in one room and our kids are enjoying that,” she said.
She said that the children at the school where she is teaching are being taught in innovative ways and it is always kept in mind that they become more creative and know how to go about anything in an innovative way.
“We are trying to teach those children in innovative ways. We are trying to make our kids creative, innovative, making them able to get more out of whatever little is available,” she said.
In her message to her fellow teachers, she said: “Work hard and teach the children in every situation. These kids are our own, when we teach them with sincerity, our kids will learn on their own.”
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