5th September, Teachers day

On this day students take over the school and manage the classes. Days and weeks before they were already excited because some of them would get a chance to wear a Saree and suddenly be in the position of a teacher for a few hours. Whereas the students in the deaf school had brought their own Sarees from home, rich and colourful, it was a lot simpler in the blind school. 

The evening before that day the girls tried the teachers cloths and chose one each. The 5th happened to be a Sunday and thus they “performed” the “Teachers Day” on 6th. Instead of the real teachers suddenly 12 students were sitting in front of the whole group of students and managing the prayer, the announcements etc. Than they took over all classes and taught different subjects, just like any other teacher would have done. The students greeted them with “Good Morning Sir or Teacher” and took classes/lessons as usual, Gujarati, Hindi, History, Maths and English. The students performed quite well, but it was very obvious how they copied their own teachers. Unfortunately the teaching techniques here are not very developed and like in the deaf school the teacher here don’t differ very much from each other in class. Lessons are read to the students and questions asked. The students hardly ever get time to be active themselves apart from standing up and giving reply to the teacher. Nevertheless it was nice to get the chance and see something so different and maybe we will find that in our schools one day as well.