Nurturing Minds: Keep APJ’s dream alive

Nurturing Minds: IIM-Shillong volunteers with the students of three city schools
Nurturing Minds: IIM-Shillong volunteers with the students of three city schools

SHILLONG, OCT 19: Keeping alive former late president APJ Abdul Kalam dream of teaching students through unconventional methods, the IIM-Shillong launched one of its initiatives “Nurturing Minds” involving three city schools on October 17.

The IIM Shillong initiative is also to commemorate the birth anniversary of Kalam that falls on October 15. The teaching programme was held at the IIM Shillong campus.

‘Nurturing Minds’ is a teaching programme aimed at coaching students by adopting unconventional teaching. The objective of the initiative is to connect with the local community, give back to the society and carry forward Kalam’s love for teaching.

The classes started off with a pool of 30 students from three schools, namely H.Elias, Presbyterian and Dinet Manik School, wherein the students were taught mathematics.

Before the classes began, the students and volunteers were addressed by the PGP chairman Dr Basav Roychoudhury. He expressed that the initiative should focus upon getting rid of the fear associated with Mathematics among the enrolled students.

The official address was followed by an ice-breaking session during which the volunteers and students interacted with each other. The Chairman of Board of Directors Falguni Rajkumar who was also present during the session, emphasised on the need to become a good human being and develop holistically.

The students were split into two groups, and each group was managed by 3-4 volunteers. The topics chosen for the day were Mensuration and Algebra. The volunteers used innovative teaching aids and utilised the infrastructural facilities available in the classroom to make the session fun and informative.

After the two hour session, the students were served snacks and escorted by the volunteers for a campus tour.

Based on the response of the initial phase the student volunteers plan to scale up the programme by including other subjects in the course pedagogy.- By Our Reporter

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