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The Teacher Support Program

The aim of the Teacher Support program is to improve the professional skills and performance of teachers through training/re-training and recognition to outstanding teachers.

Training / Re-training instils confidence and strengthens skills in teachers which eventually lead to better performance in everyday classroom; it also reinforces teachers’ content knowledge and improves the learning outcome of the students. Recognising teachers for their outstanding contribution in shaping young minds boosts confidence in teachers.

Achievements:IHF have successfully trained 2,30,764 teachers. Apart from training, 50,057 toutstanding teachers have been recognised with the Nation Builder Awards.

Activities Under the Program

A. Training / Re-training of Teachers

Teacher training is the main focus of the entire Teacher Support vertical. The role of teachers in shaping the minds of the youth is undeniable. However, apart from this, regular workshops, seminars and training should be encouraged to enhance the capabilities of a teacher. There are various institutions that specialize in training teachers. India Humanity Foundation's Teacher Training program focuses on providing such facility to the teachers of government schools and government aided schools across India by collaborating with institutions that specialize in:

Teacher Training Topics

21st Century Life Skills
Assessment in the class and Evaluation studies
Awareness about children with disabilities
Basic IT Skills for a SMART Teacher

Language Skills
Leadership
Learning Skills - Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Communication
Life Skills - Flexibility, Leadership, Initiative, Productivity, Social

Building relationships
Child and Adolescent Development
Classroom Management
Classroom Transaction
Communicating effectively
Conscientiousness
Creative Pedagogy
Cyber Safety and Security
Demonstrating effective teaching behaviour
Diversified Teacher Training
Empathy
Gender Sensitivity
Human Rights
Hygiene and Sanitation
Inclusive Education
Integration of ICT in Teaching-Learning and Assessment
Interactive Communication
Knowing the subject, understanding the teaching context

Literacy Skills - Information, Media, Technology
Monitoring teacher potential and performance
Motivation
Non Violent Discipline (Curbing Corporal Punishment)
Openness
Perception & Attitude Building
Resilience
Simple lesson plan methodologies
Strength based life coaching techniques
Subject Enrichment (Mathematics & Science)
Supporting and mentoring teachers
Teaching Pedagogy
Team Building
Time Management
Maintaining a safe, respectful classroom culture
Understanding how teachers learn
Using differentiated teaching techniques

IT Skills for a Smart Teacher

The Model IT Skills for a SMART Teacher is a Teacher Training program spread across 5 days on various IT Skills which addresses the obvious as well as the not so obvious challenges of Remote Working by demonstrating easy solutions, and which in turn will help teachers to become a 'Smart Remote Teacher'. This course has a practical hands-on approach, and guides on how to overcome communication, connectivity and basic technology related challenges. It also covers essential office work such as workflows, making Educational Videos, using scanning software on mobile phones, keeping in touch with Google Suite, etc. This course covers a gamut of best practices to follow while remote teaching to ensure productivity without burning out, as well as taking care of physical and mental health.

The entire project is carried on WhatsApp platform and by self-learning mode, without any personal interaction with teachers.

5 days training (15 skills)
Learning by doing methodology
Conducted on WhatsApp
No cost to teachers
Certification after assessment

Physical Teacher Training

Teachers can be retrained through regular workshops, seminars to enhance their capabilities. Rotary clubs, Lions club, other NGOsor any such entity may choose to undertake teacher training in collaboration with local governments. These teachers are from government and aided schools and often look forward to such refresher training to enhance their performance. IHF encourages these entities to undertake such project with the training partners on board with IHF.

Online Teacher Training

Online Teacher Training seeks to provide rigorous personal and professional training to teachers in the most effective way possible, with a user-friendly platform where they can access the training materials at their convenience. With the unprecedented crisis due to the spread of the pandemic, learning has been impacted in multiple ways. However, it has also provided an opportunity for leveraging technology to ensure continuity of learning and development of our students and teachers.

To meet up the need of the day, India Humanity Foundation has designed a robust platform to cater to the Blended Learning Approach for Online Teacher Training. Under the India Humanity Foundation; the Online Teacher Training program aims to improve the professional abilities and performance of the teachers in an endeavour for their continued learning and development.

The Teacher Training aims to promote experiential and joyful learning across various departments of learning. Improvement in learning outcomes of the students. It will result in the creation of an enabling and enriching inclusive classroom environment, where teachers are trained and able to handle the social, emotional and psychological needs of the students. The Learning Design and Methodology will help to inculcate innovation and creativity in pedagogy.

Program Implementation

An online teacher training can be conducted by any of the Training partners
Select topics and select training partners
Enrol local resource persons where applicable
The duration of OTT is based on the choices of courses

B. Nation Builder Award

One major component of the Teacher Support program is recognising outstanding teachers through the "Nation Builder Award". Recognizing outstanding teachers instils them with renewed confidence and encourages them to perform better.
Nation Builder Award can be given out by following method:

Evaluation Method

Since inception, IHF has been implementing Nation Builder Award through the Evaluation Format where, one visits Government/Government-aided schools and get its teachers evaluated by the school principals and students by filling up NBA Evaluation forms developed by IHF. These forms are eventually evaluated, and teachers receiving highest marks are felicitated with Nation Builder Award certificates which are auto-generated from IHF website.

Program Implementation

Understand the evaluation process by downloading the three forms from the resources section of the website.
Identify a government school and seek consent from School Authority to conduct the evaluation.
The Principal/ Head Teacher and 10 students from each school to participate in the evaluation process.
Conduct Evaluation with NB 1.2 and NB 2.2 forms.
The evaluation process should be anonymous.
Compilation of marks in NB 3.2
Download all the forms, fill them in hard copies
Input the compiled data in the online form available on the portal
Felicitate the outstanding teachers with certificates on Teachers' Day, 5th September or throughout the year.