“We had our OB interviews for VITeach right before the pandemic began. I had applied for the post of the Marketing Head. I was a frightened 2nd year student, and was faced with a barrage of questions from the interviewers. One of the questions I was asked was what I could do marketing-wise for the club. I genuinely froze at that moment, and then went into a rant about how people don’t exactly understand the extent of the difference this club makes, and that we should create a way for people to see real testimonials. I even began tearing up at the end of my rant, and everyone started laughing. This beautifully captures the essence of VITeach- no matter how serious the situation is, creativity is always encouraged. The club wants and needs nothing but passionate, committed people. That’s how VITeacher Tales was born- Merin and I stayed up the whole night coming up with that name.
My favorite memory is from the first or second time we went to teach at a school- my friend and I were teaching 1st and 2nd standard kids alphabets and colors. This kid called Madhan was running around the class room with a paper plane and was putting it in his classmates’ hair. That’s when we decided to put the two grades together and teach them all at the same time. My friend came up with the idea to use my socks to teach them colors. I was wearing black socks with multi-colored stripes. He made me sit down, pointed at my socks, and asked them, “What color is this?”. This was the most bizarre way of teaching colors that I’ve known, but at the end of the day, 30-something children went home knowing what neon pink and neon orange was. VITeach doesn’t require complicated resources-you are allowed to explore and teach them however you want as long as it’s effective.
Yes, the kids still ran amok, screamed, threw their books at us, and were chaotic- but that afternoon really changed my outlook on things. I was grinning the whole day!”
-Sruti B
“We had our OB interviews for VITeach right before the pandemic began. I had applied for the post of the Marketing Head. I was a frightened 2nd year student, and was faced with a barrage of questions from the interviewers. One of the questions I was asked was what I could do marketing-wise for the club. I genuinely froze at that moment, and then went into a rant about how people don’t exactly understand the extent of the difference this club makes, and that we should create a way for people to see real testimonials. I even began tearing up at the end of my rant, and everyone started laughing. This beautifully captures the essence of VITeach- no matter how serious the situation is, creativity is always encouraged. The club wants and needs nothing but passionate, committed people. That’s how VITeacher Tales was born- Merin and I stayed up the whole night coming up with that name.
My favorite memory is from the first or second time we went to teach at a school- my friend and I were teaching 1st and 2nd standard kids alphabets and colors. This kid called Madhan was running around the class room with a paper plane and was putting it in his classmates’ hair. That’s when we decided to put the two grades together and teach them all at the same time. My friend came up with the idea to use my socks to teach them colors. I was wearing black socks with multi-colored stripes. He made me sit down, pointed at my socks, and asked them, “What color is this?”. This was the most bizarre way of teaching colors that I’ve known, but at the end of the day, 30-something children went home knowing what neon pink and neon orange was. VITeach doesn’t require complicated resources-you are allowed to explore and teach them however you want as long as it’s effective.
Yes, the kids still ran amok, screamed, threw their books at us, and were chaotic- but that afternoon really changed my outlook on things. I was grinning the whole day!”
-Sruti B