CREATING HAPPY CLASSROOM

Paralysed waist down, a math teacher has experimented with various ideas by taking the help of tools used for creative sessions

- Ejaz Kaiser

CHHATTISGARH

A government middle school teacher, K Sharda has never allowed her physical disability to become a hurdle in life. In fact, she has brightened a way forward for her students.

Based in Durg district of Chhattisgarh, Sharda nurtured an idea of creating a ‘happy classroom’, where a mech anism of cumulative activities are evolved. As a teacher, she has encouraged students both online and offline to remain engaged with their studies through a productive learning environment.

She is a resident of a Bhilai town, about 30 km from Raipur, and is a math teacher. When hardly one year old, she was paralysed waist down after being stricken with polio.

“Ever since I joined the government school as a teacher in 2009, I listed a few issues that usually affect the students,” says Sharda. One of the key roles of a teacher should be to develop an environment that binds students’ attention to the subjects under study,” she says.