Shree R J Patel College Of Education

Our place, Shree R J Patel College Of Education, is located in the Saraspur part of Ahmedabad. It’s tucked into the Prasiddh-Ii area, which can get quite busy during the morning rush. The college is mostly about training people who want to become teachers. It’s funny because even though we teach how to manage a classroom, our own office gets a bit cluttered with files and old registers. The building has that specific smell of paper and old furniture that you find in schools. We’ve got a small group of staff members who have been here long enough to know every crack in the walls. We don’t have a massive campus with gardens, but we make use of the space we have. Students spend a lot of time sitting in the common areas discussing their lesson plans. Sometimes the traffic noise from Saraspur makes it hard to hear, but you get used to it after a week. We don't use a lot of big words to describe what we do. We just help people get through their B.Ed. requirements so they can go out and find a job in a school somewhere. Every year a new batch comes in, looking a bit nervous, and then they leave as graduates. It’s just how it goes here. We make sure the water cooler is filled and the lights work, and that’s basically our day-to-day life. It is simple but it keeps us busy.