One Day in Wattakramen School with Teach For Thailand & SC Johnson
The SC Johnson joined our Leadership Development Associate in their school visit to Wattakramen School in Kanchanaburi Province on 14 March 2023. The team observed Mathayom 1 (7th grade) Math class taught by Teacher Nong-Kanokwan Rodprasit, our cohort 9th fellow.
SC Johnson is a key partner of Teach For Thailand who recognizes the importance and positive impact of tackling education inequity by building a collective network of teaching fellows through our fellowship programs.
Since many of the activities during the past couple of years were paused because of Covid-19, a school visit was organized for our partner to understand the program and how a fellow runs a classroom session to help students improve in their Mathematics and Science.
The SC Johnson team joined our Leadership Development Associate in their school visit to Wattakramen School in Kanchanaburi Province on 14 March 2023. The SC Johnson team both observed Mathayom 1 (7th grade) Math class taught by Teacher Nong-Kanokwan Rodprasit, our cohort 9th fellow. Besides seeing the impact that our fellows are making in the classroom, it was such a great opportunity for our partner to understand how the experience, knowledge, and skills gained from the fellowship program would later help the fellows to build their career paths to influence change to the education system in the future.
Since most of the students at Wattakramen School live with a single parent, or a grandparent, whose focus is not always their children’s education, teachers have to work proactively beyond the classroom. House visits are necessary to help teachers understand all the problems their students face at home, how these problems affect their performance in the classroom, and how to best help the students overcome all these challenges, academically, physically, and mentally. Problems range from how to help students make a critical judgment in this digital era where information is freely available, to how to help an 18-year-old student who is now only in 7th grade to finally graduate. It has become clear how having to live with and solve these kinds of problems daily for 2 whole years gives a new perspective and incredible strength to all of our fellows.
Hearing all the challenges and difficulties directly from the fellows, and seeing the circumstances and conditions of the underserved students with one’s own eyes were truly inspirational. It was just a one-day activity but would be a day to remember. All hearts are fulfilled and a few hands are shaking … wanting to do more, wanting to help more.
