Ritu Sahni
Moving from coaching centres into a school classroom
- Now
- Faculty of English, in her first school post
- Before
- About 20 years in coaching centres, institutions and academies
- Programme
- PgCTL
Ritu had taught English for two decades, but only in coaching centres, academies and institutions, never once inside a school and never with a method she could name. Structured lesson planning and a stronger resume finally carried her into a school post.
Learnt by doing, since 2004.
Ritu Sahni started teaching in 2004. What she knew about the work, she had picked up by doing it. “Most of my learning was experiential learning,” she says. PgCTL, she says, gave her deeper insights into what teaching is: pedagogy, child development, learning theories, taxonomies, classroom management, evaluation and questioning skills. She calls it an eye-opener. “All right, this is the right method to teach.”
A school post, and a plan.
She credits the programme with floating her resume and, in her words, “fetching a job in a school”. She now goes to class “more well prepared and more structured”. She also learnt who the lesson is for. “It’s not about me, it’s about the students,” she says. The question she asks of a lesson now is about them: “What are learning outcomes achieved?”
Lesson planning is one thing which we learnt very thoroughly in PgCTL, and Suraasa templates were very useful and helpful.
