Teacher training curriculum must address this. Our current teacher training programmes are woefully inadequate in equipping teachers to understand and empathise with children who need more help than others and in educating them to practise inclusion and the strategies that can be used. Teachers need to be sensitised and trained to handle children with learning problems and the problems of first generation learners.
The lack of training and awareness leads to children like Ishaan being labelled as dumb and foolish. No child is born that way; if they become so, we adults are responsible.
The writer is principal, Sanskriti School, New Delhi gishwaran@yahoo.co.in
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