Specified Addressee- Teachers/Professors
Dear Teachers,
More than a year ago, you, along with the rest of the world, experienced an unprecedented change in the wake of the Covid -19 pandemic. From seeing our joyful faces in the morning for your first class, to only seeing our names flashing on your screen, may have been a huge change for you. When you entered into the field of teaching, you would have never anticipated the changes you had to bring to your teaching methods during the pandemic.
In such a short amount of time, you adapted curricula to new teaching platforms and tools that you previously had no experience using. You made every lesson as interesting and captivating as possible and tried to engage us in several online classroom activities, which might have been difficult for you. You made it a point to take feedback from us regularly by making us fill Google forms to make the online classroom environment more student friendly.
You took your personal time out to learn innovative teaching techniques, making presentations for our next day’s lessons, ensuring that every student has access to the curricula, looking into the issue of digital divide faced amongst the students of the institute or taking parent- teacher calls to share your students’ progress. You may have been a victim of the digital divide with the lack of technology or digital literacy, but you did not let that affect your teaching. Online classroom spaces were no longer just spaces to learn. During lessons you would take time out to ask “how your students were?” or reduce the burden of assignments. You would take an extra step to make our course work lighter than usual. You went above and beyond.
You as an individual would have gone through certain challenges and hardships during this journey but you still made online learning a memorable experience for us. We as students understand that you are not just an educator but also have many other roles to play in your personal life. But you never let any of your personal matters affect the classroom environment.
The Covid-19 Pandemic created the largest disruption to the education system in human history, which affected nearly 1.6 billion learners across the world. Closures of schools, colleges, universities and learning spaces did impact nearly 94% of the student population. In such uncertain times, with the fear of losing an academic year and stalling of all our future plans, you helped your students cope up.You motivated us when we were at our lowest points and gave us hope for a brighter future. The pandemic did surely physically distance us away from you but it could not affect the bond we as students will always share with you. The relationship of a Guru and his Shishya is one of the most prestigious and oldest bonds created by man, and no natural disaster or disruptions like the pandemic could ever affect this relationship.
We as students salute your selflessness and would like to thank you for going above your call of duty.
Charvee Wadhwa
Charvee recently graduated from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University with a major in Journalism. Being an avid Bhartanayam dancer she takes keen interest in performing arts. She wishes to pursue her career in media and communication as well as contribute to the field of art and culture in the future.
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