Curious Times in conversation with Deepshikha Ghai
As an English teacher, I have worked with over 72000 students in past 15 years. I believe in combining real life experiences with teaching to provide an engaging and interactive learning environment. At times, I emphasize on Practical Teaching Assistance, so that every student understands the root knowledge. I have gained experience by supporting teachers and helping students with their social and educational development. I have developed myself as: An Education Professional who is accomplished in organizing teacher’s curriculum, students’ almanac, training students and teachers for English Language Skills, assisting with lessons and collaborating with other professionals to provide the highest level of education for each student.
Being an Enthusiast|Writer|Trainer|Mentor is what defines me as a Professional. I have worked hard with budding vernals, training them and grooming for a pinnacular success. I have developed an innate potential to teach and facilitate.In these years of mentoring young minds, I have groomed as an editor , coordinator ,designer and developer , public relation officer and much more.
What inspired you to become an educator?
It stems out of a personal thought that challenges and their savvy counter necessarily don't transmute into immediate success. It is, however the material — the nature and the nurture of one — that constructs the foundation of one's persona, and thereby the psyche to deal with challenges. Personally, having witnessed a sacred and untainted trend of education since I was a child, I had always expected myself to become a figure in the similar essence. It was only after stepping into the academia that I realized, it was monotonous and rigid trends of teaching or even interpersonal relations between the educator and the learner. I had to, then, envisage a pattern and style that gave learners the voice to question and be curious than engulfing broad texts. A sense of deep reading and expression had been compromised by the repetitive and traditional curriculum, for which I took care to start expressing myself in my speech and writing, my interaction with the learners — elder or younger alike, and the rest followed. With devising intelligent reading of text, affirming the learners that if they have a conversation with the text that seems inanimate, the text will come to life, however uniquely it may. I had to reinvent myself before I could go about reinventing the areas & the beings of improvement.Interestingly, it wasn't the play of circumstances that endorsed an idea, and thereby the affirmation to become an educator, but what I now cognize, in the hindsight, as an ever-present, potent seed that had sprouted into the beauteous vigour of an educator precisely 15 years ago. I was always surrounded with the mindful personas, who, much rather than just nurturing my familial expectations, ensured I was imparted with the best grounds for cognitive and spiritual growth. Although, the latter is what I was intuitive about, thereby grasping it out of thin air, I am, nonetheless, humbly a product of what life has taught me in my share of glee and gloom. A surreal realization, that life is the ultimate educator has empowered me to become one too.
What do you love the most about being a teacher?
I wanted a job that would bring different challenges everyday. That is what teaching gives me. Watching students' growth, their success, and improvements is a rewarding process. It makes the day better and makes me happy. Some of the skills are necessary in order to keep up with educational trends. However, some skills are those which you pick up from your students along the way, too. Open your students’ eyes to things that they would never have seen otherwise, through field trips, research projects, observations, and more.
The one change you would like to bring in the current education system.
The field has certainly gone major overhauls in the due time I've been in it, and has evolved in a numerous fashion. However, each fabric of advancement has had its own benefits and drawbacks. With the change in patterns of inclusion of learners in group and individual activities, there has been an assurgent focus on practical implications than theoretical excellence. An advent of sports as a discipline and a potential career choice for worthy aspirants serves as an example that our rigid conventions, after all, have been flawed in thought. The onset of dedicated schools & universities for drama, music and art has profoundly changed the geography of career options for passionate aspirants. Schools at the foundational level have instigated a regime of group-learning and promoting discourse on topics otherwise taboo like mental health and hygiene. These minute yet radical conformations for a holistic development has brought about a ripple of an impending wave of change in the still stagnant prospects.
Your message to your 21st-Century-students.
To the students of the 21st Century, you are not just a progeny of the generational progression. You've been vested with a phase that endures a lifetime; a phase, rather a force of life that doesn't discriminate, however adept you may have become by the end of your tenth decade or just at the inception of your teen years. Learning is a force that conflate everyone regardless of face, race, culture, class or stature. You'll persevere at a thing all your life, but still feel inept. Every horizon will bring a new land to scale, a new ocean to fathom. And the challenges that come upfront are a part and parcel of what moulds you, what makes you. You're clay — fresh, potent and acknowledging of the impressions that come from your exposure and will make sure that your taking in the most graceful and precise strokes and chiselling. There are endless perspectives to how one envisions their incubation and the subsequent realization that one constitutes around themselves, and that they are, in turn, determined by perspectives around them. There is only so much advancement and authenticity in finding yourself a devotee to what you do, not a deity to what comes to your heart.
A special story, memory or message that you want to share.
Dear learners of today and forever, it is with my greatest incapacity to understand the things I've been blessed with, but doing so without a faze at their intricacies, and the deepest surrender to the Almighty for whatever they deem kind to endow upon me, that I tell you, with a markedly arcane intuition: the things that you choose to do, perform, undertake and shape your course of action with, you have the power to tame all of that glory and consequent grandeur. You need to first surrender to all those; first serve them with the last possible vigour in your cells; first call every breath to provide you the moments to be spent over, to be assimilated into, to be lost amid and then found by the very things you wish to attain command over. Here, ask yourself, should you be anything if it was not ultimately the grace of your passion you seek! Only wish to be so lost and carefree that your passion, your drive finds you; and that whatever shore it may land you on, is indeed what has been meant for you. To only surrender to our passion so much, that even being more of it, makes us to be ourselves. All this happens when one is inherently ready to challenge the ideals one has been brought up with, what one had considered were acceptable to all those around; when one is ready to give into being recklessly pure and at the same time empty of any thought. These are grounds of rebellion and reincarnation, of ceaseless pain and agonising pursuit. This takes a lifetime to initiate, or even a blink of an eye, but, there begins your journey.
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