Wednesdays are the most resourceful day when teachers stayback to stimulate their intellectual need. They are involved in discussions, micro teaching, vertical integration and meeting with the Principal to discuss, evaluate and improve. Wednesday dated 8th February’17 was a little different. The Principal planned to show them movie clippings (Videos) of the recent movie DANGAL and involve the entire team in an interactive session about the lessons learnt by them.
As a part of the Teacher Enhancement Program and with the benevolent intention of imparting in-service training to the teaching fraternity of Podar World School, Sherkhi, the agile and socially accountable Principal, Ms. Preeta Pillai presented a highly interactive power point presentation on 'Teaching for Transformation' relating to the Aamir Khan starrer block buster movie, 'Dangal' to trigger the innate yet dormant potential in each of the teachers to draw out the best in their learners optimizing the existing resources through consistent and determined efforts. Through a few significant clippings from the movie, the leader by virtue of her position and administrative acumen gradually led her team to explore themselves the various strategies that could be employed for effecting desirable changes in the learners. Thanks to the respected Principal, Ms. Preeta Pillai and the Management for adopting a popular yet socially relevant movie that highlights the persisting stigmas in the society like stereotyping, discriminating, neglecting consciously or sub-consciously the slow learners, not trying to analyze the hindering trait in a learner’s progress etc. thereby failing to bring out the best in any child. The presentation helped to empower the teachers and infuse them with renewed knowledge and confidence to persevere in their efforts to draw out the best in their learners.
