Exploring Worlds through Words
Written by Maitreyi A, LEC 2021 Waiting an extra five months for our first LEC (Library Educator’s Certificate Course) contact period was totally worth it! Our seven-month course was meant to start in May 2021, but due to the Covid pandemic, our start date was postponed. I was getting ready and set to travel to […]
What kind of a teacher do I want to be?
Written by Jennifer Thomas, Sharon English High school Despite being a teacher for the last ten years I continue to be plagued by this question at different points in my professional life. I work with school students and with adults but I am not sure what kind of a teacher my students perceive me to […]
Puu – A Critical Book Review
Written by the Bookworm Team Title: Puu Author: CG Salamandar Illustrator: Samidha Gunjal Publisher: Scholastic The book narrates the story of a girl, who is part of a community of manual scavengers, and her experience and interaction with the other children in the school she attends. Through a heroic act of rescuing a puppy […]
LEC- Joyful Learning!
Written by R. Devabalan, LEC 2020 Having spent almost a quarter-century in development work, I had the privilege of participating in training, workshops, and multiple learning courses but the Library Educators Course organized by Bookworm Trust is unique. What makes LEC unique, are three things: the facilitators, the curriculum, and the mentoring support. The facilitators […]
My Library Dream
Written by Bhavna Faizullabhoy, LEC 2020 I still cannot believe that it has been a week since I returned from Goa, having completed a course in Library Education from Bookworm Trust Goa. Reading and books have always been an integral part of my existence and have shaped who I am. Sometime in 2019, I had […]
Learning from Stories and Stories of Learning
By Poonam Bhonsle, LEC 2020 I thrive on stories. As much as I love listening to stories I equally enjoy narrating them to others. This year the pandemic exposed me to different kinds of stories – of despair, of suffering, of anxiety and of grief. Amidst all this, I was worried whether I will be […]
A Welcome Change
Written by Blaise D’sa Two months ago Bookworm revamped the library space at the Alban Couto Community Library in the hope of reorganising and refreshing the library collection. What catches the eye as you enter is a visually attractive space which houses three book shelves replete with diverse books. To the right of the room […]
The LEC Way
Written by Sonia Deshpande, LEC 2020 It was in a pre-pandemic February of 2020 that I eagerly applied to the Library Educators Course (LEC) offered by the Bookworm Trust, Goa. It was the title of the course that drew me to it, the bringing together of the library with education. The course was about to […]
LEC 2020 – A unique lived experience
Written by Kuheli Sarkar, LEC 2020 Imagine you are planning a road trip, you have heard from people who have taken the trip earlier how exciting it is, and now you are looking forward to experiencing it. Suddenly something awful unfolds and you are no longer sure whether you’ll be able to make it. How […]
Teacher Training in time of Corona
Written by Nayan Mehrotra and Pranita Naik The Library in School (LiS) program was primarily focussed on conducting sessions in schools that were part of the program, teacher mentoring and capacity building workshops. Our aim was to build an engagement with the collection that strengthens comprehension, awareness of the world and self and seeds lifelong […]