It's a New Day, A New Month and I'm Feeling gooood.......

It’s a new day and a new month. We walked to the college anticipating a dull lecture but had the opposite experience. We had a very unique talk by Sri Joby Kondoor on the topic ‘Reflective Self Discovery ‘. It included a variety of activities. The activities were done to convey the following ideas:

A teacher must always give clear instructions to students with room for very few or no doubts.
Always address a child by their given name because each name represents their likes, heritage, culture, religion etc. So, refusing to call the child by their name can hurt their feelings.
Learn to say 'No' when required.
When a student tells the wrong answer in class, appreciate the student for trying and then point out where he/she went wrong.
Always respect the opinions and ideas of the student.
Friendship is the only relationship where the following qualities - respect, understanding, care, co-operation and responsibility are always given and received in equal amounts.

T After the talk, we had Maya ma'am's class where we were assigned with our seminar topics and we completed our first unit 💃. The day ended with a game of 'Lion and Lamb' which took us back to our school days.

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