My Experience

I am a student of the tenth standard giving my boards. Today is my English Language paper and the essay I have opted for is an opportunity to display my satisfaction on having successfully accomplished a task I had undertaken to work on, which not only I managed to fulfill successfully, but rather the reward has been so gratifying that I am tempted to share it with all. So that others too feel motivated that teaching skill is not only rewarding rather it is self-sufficing and enlightening.

Two years back we were given a project in our school "Each one Teach one". Initially, we made fun of our teachers, who had asked us to teach someone who was less fortunate near our house, like our household workers, or labor class at a construction site nearby. Most of my friends came up with bright ideas of befooling the teachers that they would take someone who was somewhat familiar with basics and would say that they had taught them. I too had thought alike.

On reaching home, I told my grandmother about the whole episode of the project and the ideas of my friends. My Grandma became a little sad on hearing my views of befooling the teacher, and advised me to do it seriously for the effort would be worthwhile and rewarding. She told me that it is a noble task to teach someone, and we who are fortunate should not take them for granted. I could grasp the meaning behind her words and seriously thought over it and the next day, I asked my maid's daughter, if she was interested in studying. She used to accompany her mother and was around 10 years old.

Initially, she declined, and I had to pursue her hard, allure her through small gifts I would give her if she studied with diligence, and finally she agreed. So now I was a teacher and my task had begun. I prepared myself I would be dedicated to my task and prove to myself that I could do it. I gave her a few books on the basics of Hindi and maths and one notebook. Though it was a Herculean task, I endeavored for I would not look back.

Initially, she was a slow learner, but soon with my initiative, she got eager to learn every day and in a month she was able to write Hindi alphabets and numbers from one to hundred.

From next month I started with small two-letter words and small calculations. She was quick to perceive and learn very copiously. At times I used to get exasperated for a lot of time was to be devoted, but I managed for the satisfaction. I was getting was immense. Next month we got her admitted to a school in III std. and she did very well with my help and stood in her class. The experience boosted my dignity in my own eyes apart from others, and I felt on top of the world for doing something that was indeed taken up, initially in a mood of frolicsome challenge.