Fareeda Shaik MustafaDubai, UAE
Training teachers back home in Kerala
- Based in
- Dubai, UAE
- At recording
- Not employed, receiving interview calls from schools across Dubai
- Programme
- PgCTL
- Initiative
- Training teachers in her hometown in Kerala
Fareeda was between jobs in Dubai, ambitious but without a classroom of her own. She began taking interview calls from schools across the city and started training teachers in her hometown in Kerala, work a principal and supervisor recognised in an appreciation letter.
Between jobs, receiving calls.
Fareeda Shaik Mustafa is plain about where she stood when she recorded her story. “I have started receiving interview calls from schools across Dubai as I’m currently not employed,” she says, “but I’m very positive, extremely hopeful.” She was looking to secure a placement on the strength of her previous experience.
A former PgCTL student, she describes what she can now bring to a school: learner-centred classrooms, with lesson plans and activities designed to make students more independent, creative and self-motivated. She picks out one skill as a highlight. It is building the right assessment strategies into the lesson plan, so that it shows learners’ progress and attainment while catering to their needs. The programme, she says, also helped her rediscover her strengths and her “areas of further improvement”.
PgCTL has given me the confidence and the courage to cross the educational milestones successfully.
Teachers in her hometown.
One thing she has already done with it is train other teachers. “I could not stop myself from training teachers in my hometown Kerala,” she says. The principal and the supervisor of the school gave her an appreciation letter, which she says “speaks of this extra effort”. She calls it a great achievement and is extremely proud of it.
She also talks about what changed outside work. She has learnt to organise her work, “be it assignments, household chores”, and to set priorities. She also shares a saying she believes in: “Little steps taken in the right direction lead you a long way.”
