Making a difference, one student at a time

Name: Making a difference, one student at a time
Uploaded: 2023-10-14T23:00:18+00:00
Duration: 3 min 4 s
Channel: Free Malaysia Today

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Teachers Sujithraa Baskaran and Sasveni Subramaniam share their experience of helping Malaysia’s future generation and what keeps them going.

Story by: Sheela Vijayan
Shot by: Moganraj Villavan
Presented by: Theevya Ragu
Edited by: Khairul Taufiek

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00:00 Today, on World Students' Day, FMT Lifestyle speaks with two teachers who run a tuition

00:06 centre in Sithyalam, Selangor.

00:08 Sujithra Bhaskaran draws on the lessons of her late mother while teaching, while Saswini

00:13 Subramaniam is an accidental teacher who has learnt a thing or two since becoming an educator.

00:21 Sujithra's mother, Anbalagi Thangaya, wanted to become a teacher but did not get the opportunity.

00:29 So Sujithra decided to become one.

00:33 Sadly, Anbalagi never got the chance to see her daughter graduate and become a teacher.

00:38 In 2019, she succumbed to a decade-long battle with ovarian cancer.

00:43 Today, Sujithra incorporates the lessons she learnt from her mother into her own teaching.

00:49 These include the importance of communication, which is why Sujithra always converses with

00:54 her students to understand them better.

00:56 The reply you get is that you'll get a sigh, that "Aunty, today is a long day, I'm so tired.

01:02 Can we do something different today?"

01:04 So when you talk, you'll get a response.

01:06 You'll get a response accordingly, so that is the most important thing.

01:11 Sadly, two years after her mother's death, her father too passed away.

01:16 These challenging times have given Sujithra a sense of empathy for students in difficult

01:20 situations.

01:21 So, she waives or reduces fees for those who cannot afford it.

01:26 What do you think your mother would feel, a serious day?

01:30 I'm not sure.

01:33 Sasveni, meanwhile, fell in love with teaching when she started helping her neighbour's children

01:43 with their homework.

01:44 Although she graduated as a nutritionist, she pursued teaching as a career.

01:49 In fact, this accidental teacher is carrying on her family's legacy as her late grandfather

01:55 was a headmaster and two of her aunts are retired teachers.

02:00 Given that she has no formal background in teaching, she says it has been a learning

02:04 experience but she has no regrets.

02:07 When Sasveni learned that one of her students, an 8-year-old boy, was autistic, she started

02:12 researching and conversing with friends who taught at special needs centres to learn how

02:17 to best teach him.

02:19 She was delighted when he eventually became more verbal in class and since then she has

02:24 taught over 10 special needs students.

02:27 Even now, if I do receive any request for special needs, I would definitely take up.

02:34 Believing that every child deserves to learn, she too waives or reduces fees for those from

02:40 poor backgrounds.

02:41 I feel like I'm making a change in their lives.

02:45 So I think that's what I really love doing until now.

02:48 And also the satisfaction when not only in their exams, but even in their life as they

02:53 progress to become a better person, it makes me happy.

02:59 Divya Ragu and Sheila Vijayan, FMT Lifestyle.

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Making a difference, one student at a time

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