The Satya Bharti Schools are temples of learning, aiming to achieve much more than just academic excellence for the children. We work towards shaping them to be good human beings, confident and ready to face the world as conscientious citizens. Our teachers are the most important conduit in this process. While we look towards them to help groom and educate our children, we also remain committed to help our teachers with training programs, in-school support and innovative teaching methods and curriculum. Each one of them has to be a role model for the children in terms of behaviour and personal conduct, in addition to possessing excellent subject knowledge
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| Recruiting From Local Villages |
Recruiting quality teachers for village based schools remains a challenge for us. Thus the recruitment process looks at hiring young and dynamic individuals from the local communities, who have a passion for teaching children from local communities. Recruitment drives are carried out at the local cluster levels to enable maximum number of people to appear for the selection process. Ten major recruitment drives were carried out during the last year at different locations recruiting more than 500 teachers for the new academic session starting April 2010. Additionally, these drives also helped generate a database of approximately 800 potential candidates.
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| Well Structured Recruitment Process |
The recruitment process has been reviewed and revamped based on the experience of recruiters last year. Moving away from just written tests and technical interview sessions, the process now encompasses a more robust approach to recruitment. It focuses on the holistic assessment of teachers’ personality and dynamism as individuals. Mock teaching sessions are used to assess the teaching skills as well as attributes such as classroom management, interaction with children, confidence, energy and motivation levels. Teachers are also put through a process of group exercises to review their communication and presentation skills, team work and leadership skills. Teachers are selected not only for the qualities they possess but also for their potential to adopt the teaching methodologies used at the Satya Bharti Schools.
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| Robust Training and Re-training |
New teachers take minimum of 6 months to reflect desirable change
The training of teachers is one of the most important constituents of the Satya Bharti School Program. Every teacher undergoes a basic foundation course of 12 days of pedagogical training before their first day at school. This is followed by another 12 days of training through the entire year and 10 days of classroom-based pedagogical support. The training modules are designed to equip teachers with the required skills, enhance teaching quality and help them to hone higher order thinking and communication skills in children through the use of innovative pedagogy. The new teachers are trained for basic levels of performance. Thereafter each module they are trained in ensures a more advanced level of pedagogic training. The performance of our teachers is measured against a set of parameters by a field team that identifies strengths and areas of improvement. Teacher performance is also benchmarked against the holistic quality improvement levels of the students.
TEACHER EVALUATION PARAMETERS
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Subject knowledge (through test) |
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Managing classroom environment |
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Organising and planning skills |
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Student interaction |
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Creativity and innovation |
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Communication skills |
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Classroom practices and management |
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Use of teaching aids |
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Beginning and closure of lessons |
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Team spirit and interpersonal relations |
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Personal discipline |
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Moral values |
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Parent management |
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Administrative ability |
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Awareness of health and hygiene |
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Computer skills |
Performance assessment reports are used to identify gaps in teacher performance and the special training needs of every teacher are mapped accordingly. It is basis this mapping of requirements that need-based training modules are prepared. The teachers are then put through additional training cycles that aim at closing the gaps in capabilities and constantly innovate and instill new practices.
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| Enhancing Accountability by Rewarding Performance |
To ensure year - round quality education in each classroom at the Satya Bharti Schools, it is important that our teachers are self-motivated and high-performing individuals. We have created a ‘Rewards and Recognition’ policy that enables, recognizes and shows a clear growth path to our teachers. Supported by well established performance monitoring, coaching, training and HR systems, our teachers are being motivated to excel.
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