... for they have their own thoughts - Multiworld India
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102005 Goa, <strong>India</strong>For the past fewyears we found thatwe are not cateringto the needs of thechild in a holisticway. We need notgive this educationto the child.ANISA ISSANI, FROM PAKISTAN, WITH LOVEI <strong>have</strong> a long association with the Early ChildhoodDevelopment section of Sultan Mohamed Shah AgaKhan School, a unit of Aga Khan Education ServicePakistan. Currently I am working as a head teacherof the section with 1120 students, ranging from age3 to 7 years and 56 facilitators to provide children allthe facilities to help them learn.I studied here and I am teaching in the sameschool. For the past few years we found that we arenot catering to the needs of the child in a holisticway. We need not give this education to the child.My section is not called early childhood educationsection but it is called early childhood developmentsection. All of us together are making a combinedef<strong>for</strong>t to provide to the child what really is required<strong>for</strong> her/him to grow. This is another linkage why weare here. I am collecting all the ideas from thismeeting.The best thing is that all are involved in theprogramme. It’s not that the people at the top dothe planning and direct us to implement but <strong>they</strong>involve us also in the planning process.I never wanted to become a teacher butended up with teaching profession. AKES was ableto know my potential. So the opportunity availablewas the motivating factor <strong>for</strong> me. If someone hasthe trust in me and tells me that I can do a task, thenit means that I <strong>have</strong> the potential to do it and I <strong>have</strong>to prove it. I thought, if people <strong>have</strong> trust in me, thenI should also <strong>have</strong> trust in them and it was this thingthat was taking me <strong>for</strong>ward. I learnt a lot, I was notgraduated when I joined, so I did my graduationalong with the service.MUNIRA AMIRALIMath is my favourite subject, I really love it and Iwant people to see math as fun. I <strong>have</strong> beenteaching mathematics in Aga Khan EducationService <strong>for</strong> 12 years. AKES sent us <strong>for</strong> the master’sdegree and I was the head of the math departmentworking with 6 to 7 teachers. All of us work as ateam.When Wasif Rizvi joined us everything changed.Previously we were only helping teachers to teachtextbooks. Now we <strong>have</strong> started on a path ofhelping people create <strong>their</strong> <strong>own</strong> curriculum withinthe mainstream. We work closely with teachers inclass rooms and outside.
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