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Teach For India - a new initiative to meet the education demand in India
Teach for India is a new initiative conceived on the lines of Teach for America in the US, and it aims to raise standards of education in rural and semi-urban schools in India by helping them solve the most critical resource problem -- availability of quality teachers. Teach for India will recruit young graduates and professionals from all disciplines and across the country, train them rigorously and then support them in a 2-year long teaching program in primary schools. Through aspirational exit opportunities, TFI - like Teach for America - hopes to attract and retain the best talent in the country in the teaching profession.
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For a moment i mistook it for Time of india, teach India initiative. I liked the concept that you are using the government school infrastructure.
But I still could not gasp the concept completely, in the sense does teach for india adopt the school completely and what happens to existing teachers.
Having visited lot of schools, I dont think the problem is the lack of quality teachers, it more of irrelevant syllabus because of which students drop out of school. Children/Parents dont see the point of education beyond the reading/writing skills because rest of it is not much relevant to earn the daily bread.
In case anyone is interested in being involved with Teach for India in some form, please feel free to contact me!
Teach for India and Less plastic for me ,both are requisites of this day. i am happy about the discussions and like to volunteer from tirunelveli, the place i work for my ngo for SIDDHAMEDICINE, a traditional medicine of this land.
TFI does not adopt schools nor does it replace their existing staff (unless the school itself desires that some teachers be replaced). The idea is to identify schools where teachers are badly needed, and to fill in the vacant positions with TFI fellows. Each TFI fellow teaches for two (or more) years, and TFI finds a replacement whenever a fellow leaves the school.
I do believe that lack of quality teachers is a serious problem for Indian schools. Teaching is still among the worst-paid professions in our country, which naturally leads to huge demand-supply gaps and poor quality control. Even Government schools face the supply problem, resulting in extremely low teacher-student ratios.
We'd all agree that education beyond reading/writing skills is necessary to earn a decent living in today's world, and I feel it is part of the school's responsibility to convince parents about this reality.
Of course, there's no guarantee that we'd be able to solve the drop-out problem just by raising standards of the teaching staff but we cannot hope to solve the drop-out problem without raising teaching standards either.
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Kaivalya Education Foundation announces Gandhi Fellowship: Recruiting for the 2010-2012 batch
For the attachments, please get in touch with Swara Pandya at swarapandya@gmail.com or Monal Jayaram at monaljayaram@gmail.com
From: Monal Jayaram
Date: Thu, Feb 11, 2010
Subject: Fwd: Gandhi Fellowship Announces recruitment of the 2010-2012 batch
Hi friends,
We are recruiting again for Gandhi Fellowships. Please forward it to interested young dynamic students who are interested to take this up for their next two years.
Thanks
Monal Jayaram
Dear all
ANNOUNCING THE NEXT BATCH OF GANDHI FELLOWS 2010 - 2012
How many times have you thought about world's myriad problems ?
How many times have you missed out on what you really wanted to explore ... This is your chance not to...
Recruiting Graduates,Post graduates & Young working professionals across disciplines ...to be a part of the solution & not the problem
Gandhi Fellowship , an initiative of Kaivalya Education Foundation is an intensive 2-year programme that helps talented young people develop the leadership skills to cause disproportionate positive change in society. The Fellowship challenges these young people to support primary school headmasters to turn around their failing schools, thus improving the quality of education provided in India’s government schools. By taking on real challenges and solving ‘live’ problems that exist today in schools across India, Fellows learn the generic skills that will allow them to lead change on a wide range of issues in other sectors. In the process Fellows are themselves supported to discover what they are passionate about, what they want to do with their lives and how to go about converting their dreams into reality. This intense personal change process is needed for Fellows to become the nation’s next generation of leaders.
What is the role of the fellows?
The 2-year programme consists of hands-on field work undertaken in small government schools, rural villages or slum communities.
The role of the Gandhi Fellow is to help each of their 8 Headmasters successfully implement these projects and tackle all other challenges related to improving learning quality in their schools. In particular this means supporting their capacity building, so that once Fellows have moved on Headmasters are able to continue to work effectively to improve their schools. This is vital if the impact that Fellows have in their schools is to last. On any one day it will mean being a resource person, a facilitator, a change-agent, a co-creator, a mentor or a constant listener!
The Headmasters themselves are undergoing PLDP(Principal leadership development program), a process of professional & personal development while being trained in school leadership by Kaivalya Education Foundation.
You can be a Gandhi fellow if you :
Are self-driven and have intrinsic motivation,
Approach any task with rigour,
Are empathetic in dealings with others,
Can manage stakeholders,
Are solution-oriented,
Are analytical.
Gandhi Fellowship is a full time, 2 year fellowship offered to final year students across disciplines.
If selected you would be a part of this professionally and meticulously designed Fellowship.
You would get a grant of Rs.14, 000 pm and official accommodation.
You would be based out of Ahmedabad, Gujarat or Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan or Chandrapur,Maharashtra. For further details please refer to the enclosed FAQ & Intro PPT.
Apply today by mailing in your resume at gandhifellowship@gmail.com
Please forward this mail to a friend , relative , a student or anyone who you think has the makings of the next Gandhi fellow.
Please feel free to write to us at gmail or call - Inviting applications from across the country - The last date for submission of applications is 20th Feb. (via email or post)
With warm regards
Parul - 09310208412 (west zone)
Bharat - 09377673764 (west zone)
Sumon - 09310301127 (east zone)
Swadesh - 09310208411 (north zone)
In recognition of the significant contribution by the Piramal Foundation, fellows placed in Rajasthan will be called "Piramal Gandhi Fellows”
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