HaripriyaUAE
Learning to design rubrics during a year at home
- Based in
- UAE
- Before
- A teaching job in the UAE, then a year at home with her daughter
- Programme
- PgCTL, started when her daughter was six months old
Haripriya moved to the UAE, where teaching was nothing like what she knew in India, and a year at home after her daughter was born widened the gap. She began PgCTL when the baby was six months old, and rubrics she once dreaded became something she could design.
Not a request.
When Haripriya started work in the UAE, the way of teaching was new to her. “I didn’t know what exactly has to be done,” she says. It was then that she came across an advertisement for PgCTL. She wanted to join, but put it on hold. The thought stayed with her: “I should do it.”
Then her daughter was born, and she had a career gap of one year in front of her. She decided to use it, and told her husband so. “It’s not a request,” she says. “I said I want to do it and this has to be done.” The baby was about three months old. Haripriya set the start for six months, once her daughter had begun solid food, and at six months she started the course.
A rubric is a blueprint.
Much of what the programme covered she had come across before, in her B.Ed days. In PgCTL, she says, “it was like a deep dive into all things.” Rubrics are her example. “I never knew what rubrics exactly was until I came to PgCTL,” she says. During her B.Ed she had thought of them as “a nightmare”.
The programme changed that. She came to see a rubric as “a blueprint of what exactly is going to happen.” Her reaction, as she tells it: “This is so simple. I can design it. Even I can design it.”
The help that mentors had given us, the assignments we were committed to, it has given us 10 months of a transformation.
