SEC-S6W2: "I Am a Teacher | I am teacher of my street childrens

Teachers play a huge role in helping a student reach his or her destination. Man has learned a lot from his teachers and teachers are like our spiritual parents. If there were no teachers in this world, perhaps this world would not have developed so much today. The teacher who taught you in school is not necessarily your teacher, but if you learn a skill from someone, he is also like your teacher.

Whose teacher are you? Do you teach for a living?

I have a long association with the teaching field and have been teaching my aunt and street children in my home for years. I do this for the sake of God and I have not charged even a single rupee fee for teaching my aunt and street children.

Actually I stay mostly in hostel throughout the year, but when I come back home on holidays I teach my street kids and my relative's kids for free because I have a lot of passion for teaching. These children study in small classes and it is easy for me to teach them.

What challenges have you faced as a teacher?

I face a lot of difficulties while teaching to these children, because these children do not have much understanding yet, so it is sometimes very difficult for me to teach them. Right now, these children are just starting their studies, and in the early days it is very difficult to teach children.

Every child has to be reminded the lesson ten times a day, yet if I listen the lesson to them they don't prepare well and that's why I face a lot of difficulties. Some children have to do their handwriting with the help of my hand.

Also many children are still young and they pay more attention to mischief and spend less time in studies. Because at that time their mind is not mature. According to me, teaching children is the most difficult task.

How do you create a learning environment that is both stimulating and supportive?

In fact, children are hungry for love and with love, a person can take any work from them. That's why what I do is that before I teach the children, I give a reward to the child who completes their class work first.

I give a reward to the child who brings work to me first, seeing that the other children also develop the desire to work and that too quickly bring their class work to me.

Also, when all the children had done their work, at the end I also conducts a naat competition among the children, which makes them very happy and interested in the work.

Being involved in all these activities, children are very interested in doing their homework, thus I creating a learning environment that is both interactive and supportive for children.

What professional development opportunities have you pursued to improve your teaching practice?

I passed your matric exams in 2018 then I passed my intermediate exams in 2020 now I am pursuing a degree in software engineering from the University of Okara and this is my fifth smester. But in all this period I have learned a lot about teaching, sometimes we have a presentation in the university class so we get to learn a lot from it. Giving a presentation in front of everyone in the class is a very overwhelming and rewarding thing to do and because its boosts your confidence a lot.

At present, higher education is very expensive. What is your opinion on this, or is there any alternative to it?

I totally agree with this question because it is very difficult to get higher education nowadays because it is very expensive. In today's era, it has become very difficult for the poor to get higher education and that is why poor people drop out of their studies due to lack of resources.

But if the government establishes good institutions in every city and these institutions are allowed to work freely without fee, then according to my opinion even the poor people can get higher education.

Apart from this, the government should give scholarship to every poor child so that they can fulfill their needs by getting their higher education in a good way. There are many universities in Pakistan that provide scholarships to the poor.

If I talk about myself, I have also been receiving scholarship from the government for two years, it has helped me a lot and I have fully covered my expenses. Finally, I would say that creating many government institutions and giving scholarships to the poors can reduce these difficulties considerably.