Bombay Central Teacher Training Session - Sarthak Dalal
The recent teacher training session at Bombay Central
was a very humbling and eye-opening experience for me. It was the first teacher
training session I participated in as a volunteer with Toybank. I was a little
nervous before it began. Throughout the session, I was learning ways to
effectively communicate and lead people who I cannot directly speak with
because of a language barrier (note that I am a Junior in High School living in
the US – volunteering with Toybank India). I appreciate the teachers who give
their whole lives to educate the special needs children and ensure that they
lead a relatively successful life. Watching them do their work touched my
heart. We first started off by setting up the toys and the posters and
projector for the power point presentation. This required me to walk around the
school multiple times to get the necessary materials from one room to another.
As I was moving the objects, I noticed the poor conditions that the students
went to school in, but al…
