When We Changed… ... Ourselves.

What Did We Change?

The way our little friends were being taught in school.

Children in the lower grades were not being taught the way we feel they should be taught.

So we decided to teach them!

If 70 percent of English texts are comprised of sight words, knowledge of sight words would actually enable children to read. We could start here…

Sounded good, but we had to check, if this is what our little friends really needed.

Armed with Fry’s First 100 sight words lists we started the diagnostic.

We found that students knew only 60 words from the first 100.

So we taught 100 children for 2 weeks. Each one of us taught 2 children.

30 minutes were spent every day teaching them. Once we were done with sight words, we read storybooks with our little ‘siblings’…

After 2 weeks, we checked if we did a good job: and guess what!

What Changed Outside Us:

From 60 words to 83 words

That’s how many they learnt!

What Changed Within Us:• Teaching made us stronger, we were more

confident now of ourselves: teaching really is leadership!

• If we are lucky to be taught by good teachers, we need to share it with others.

• There is a shortage of teachers, but we can always teach.

• This does not stop here: we now will continue teaching our siblings at home and our friends within our class.

• If you don’t like it, change it, yourself.

The Team

• Anjali Gupta- The one who identified the problem.

• Itisha Pathak and Arman Chaudhary- the ones who made it happen.

• Students of Class Four B in Divine Child High School from where “each one taught one”.

• A short video on how we taught:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UsWQtLYhX8

Thanks!