www.teachforindia.org Teach For India Pune : In-service training

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Name Of Training Institute : Teach For India (teachforindia.org)
Location of the Institute: Pune
Training Offered : In-service training

http://www.teachforindia.org/fellows...r-training.php

Vision For Training
Teach For India’s vision for training is directly related to its overall mission and theory of change. Drawing from these two integral components, the guiding principles of Teach For India’s training program are:

** Maximizing teacher effectiveness to show significant, measurable gains in student achievement.
** Developing leadership capacities in Fellows to effect long term systemic change.

Teaching As Leadership
At Teach For India, we believe that excellent teaching starts with excellent leadership. Teachers whose students achieve remarkable results employ the same tactics as leaders in any field. Teach For India’s training is centered around this idea: by becoming an excellent teacher, you will also become an excellent leader.

** Set big goals
** Set measureable and ambitious academic goals for students, that will be the single-minded focus of teachers and students throughout the year
** Invest constituents in working hard towards those goals
** Motivate students to go above traditional expectations to reach their goals and to engage in an experiential learning process
** Plan purposefully
** Construct long-term plans and lesson plans that build upon each other to provide structure to the classroom and efficiently lead students to success
** Execute Effectively
** Operate a classroom where procedures run smoothly, all students are engaged in the material, and teachers can adjust plans based on real-time, incoming data
** Continuously reflect and improve performance
** Based on data, identify how teacher performance is holding students back from achieving their goals, and improve knowledge and skills to accelerate students’ achievement
** Work Relentlessly
** Teachers should focus their hard work on the factors that will truly move students towards their goals, while making sure to take care of themselves to maintain their energy and enthusiasm.

Components of Training
Pre-Institute Induction
Prior to their arrival at the summer training institute, Fellows will be sent reading materials and videos of classroom teaching that they are required to read/view before their arrival for training.
The purpose of pre-institute work is to:
** Invest Fellows in Teach For India’s mission
** Help Fellows gain an initial understanding of the roles and responsibilities of a teacher and the concepts, strategies and challenges of teaching
** Enable Fellows to think like a great teacher by reading about and observing expert teachers

Summer Institute
Before the school year begins, Teach For India brings all Fellows together for a residential, full-time training institute, where Fellows begin to develop the foundational tools needed to be excellent teachers and leaders. The summer institute gives Fellows the opportunity to build personal and professional relationships with others in the program, who have diverse academic and professional backgrounds, a common history of success and a unifying commitment to ending educational inequity.

Summer institute focuses on developing in Fellows a theoretical understanding of the frameworks of teaching and specific instructional techniques needed to teach English, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies. In addition Fellows receive instructional guidance from experienced practitioners and are exposed to networking opportunities with leaders from a variety of sectors.

In order to expose Fellows to the more practical components of teaching, institute also includes a summer school program for primary school students. Fellows work in collaboratives and teach English and Mathematics to students. Fellows are responsible for setting big goals for students and achieving those goals within the 4 weeks of summer school.

The first summer institute for the 2009 Fellowship class took place in May 2009, at the Symbiosis Center for Management Studies and FLAME University at Pune.

In-service training
Fellows will undergo continual in-service training for the duration of the Fellowship.

The focus of these targeted trainings is:
** To reinforce and build on summer training objectives,
** Develop leadership skills through interactions with leaders from the social and corporate sectors, and
** To train Fellows to develop and implement a sustainable community/school leadership project that will eliminate one significant barrier to educational equity in the communities in which they work.

The Leadership Forum
The purpose of the forum is to enhance Fellows’ educational and leadership abilities through the two year program. The Teach For India Leadership Forum will provide an opportunity for current Fellows and alumni to engage with prominent corporate, government, social, and education leaders who will share their insights and their experiences with leadership.

Contact Us :
Teach For India
c/o Thermax House
14, Mumbai Pune Road,
Wakdewadi, Pune – 411 003, India