| School Programmes
All school programmes that TTF designs, strive to achieve one goal – making a significant shift in the kind of education that is routinely managed and imparted to children in our country. TTF is committed to adding value to all educators and educational institutions, helping them constantly re-examine their practices and maintain a vital edge as successful outward-looking individuals and progressive institutions.
Touchstone | The Course for Contemporary Teachers
Are your teachers feeling helpless because the curriculum is vast and they are unable to manage time and resources well in the classroom? Do they have difficulty coping with the large student numbers in the classroom? Are teachers finding it difficult to use their skills and ideas to teach interestingly and shed traditional modes of teaching? Then, your school must leverage the power of Touchstone, The Course for Contemporary Teachers. Touchstone generates synergy for tangible improvements in the teaching-learning transactions in schools. It is cost-effective, compact and ensures visible outcomes in student learning.
Target Audience
For Schools that want to create a new level of teaching capability, energy and teacher-motivation either throughout the institution or in particular sections. The programme works with all teachers, from Primary to Middle to Senior schools regardless of experience or subjects.
Outcomes
Touchstone aims to transform classroom learning through teachers experiencing new ways of teaching and learning for themselves during the sessions. It helps them learn to use different ways to identify their learners needs and gain better insight into the process of learning. It encourages teachers to experiment with a wide repertoire of teaching-learning strategies, equipping themselves with simple practical teaching-learning materials. It helps them examin innovative ways to assess students
Duration
Touchstone is a package of 8 comprehensive full-day/half-day workshops covered over 4-6 months. The workshops use different techniques which are tested to improve engagement and learning, including discussions, working in groups, films and exercises.It includes 2 rounds of School-Based Support involving observation in class and feedback / guidance by trained facilitators.
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Touchstone Early Years helps teachers build their background knowledge to know who their child is and what she/he can do best at their age. It keeps pre-school learning expectations in mind, while equipping teachers with the skills to deliver age-appropriate lessons using contemporary pre-school teaching methodologies.
Target Audience
Touchstone Early Years is specifically designed for pre-school teachers in India.
Outcomes
Touchstone Early Years equips teachers with an awareness of the ages and stages of development and with strategies to teach early language, number sense and knowledge of the world. It teaches them to use play, music and movement in their classrooms. It also focuses on helping teachers learn how to develop a student portfolio and assess progress in a pre-school setting.
Duration
Touchstone Early Years is a 7-month course, with 11 interactive workshops and two rounds of classroom observation and feedback to participating teachers.
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Name: Lalitha Email Id: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Phone No.: +91 80 41231149 Whole School Turnaround
Whole School Turnaround is one of the most effective ways in which a school leader can transform his/her school’s standards, culture, and standing amongst parents and community for long-term results. TTF teams work with all the stakeholders in the school ecosystem at three levels (School Level, Teacher Level and Student Level) to enable the leader to effect and manage sustainable change.
Target Audience
For Schools that feel they need to take their level of performance, standing and results to a significantly higher level and are willing to make the commitment to enable that change. During WST, The Teacher Foundation works with the school management, principals, teachers and students.
Outcomes
Increase in overall student achievement by 20% and that of the students whose performance is in the bottom one-third of the class by 50%. It also helps to improve the teaching skills and capabilities of teachers and the quality of teacher-student and other school interactions. It enhances participation and collaboration amongst all the stakeholders including parents and students. It helps the school put processes, systems and structures in place to achieve more efficient and effective school management.
Duration
The programme is a two-year intervention, which aims to create sustained change in student learning outcomes by intensive efforts at the school infrastructure, policy, teaching, learning and assessment levels. Based on a detailed needs analysis of the participating school, the programme will be tailored to meet the needs of teachers, principals and management through training and school based support.
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Schools should be actively nurturing and enabling environments for its children. TTF is helping heads, teachers and students opt for a gentler, more positive approach to interacting with each other. The Whole School Ecosystemic Model of Quality Circle Time developed by Jenny Mosley forms the backbone of Safe and Sensitive Schools Project. SASS supports schools to to actively nurture staff self-esteem and student self-esteem. It helps schools to put three clear listening and appreciation systems into place, which will eventually contribute to a Whole School Behaviour Policy that is inclusive, positive, caring and assertive for students and staff so that all of them experience success in school.
Target Audience
For Schools that want to explore beyond academic achievement and actively nurture the human side of student growth and development. It involves all stakeholders in the school - students, teachers, heads, management, support staff as well as parents.
Outcome
Helps schools create positive, constructive, nurturing, collaborative policies, spaces and interactions. Enables the schools to ensure that they provide students with academic safety, emotional safety, behavioural safety and social safety.
Duration
SASS is a one year project, to help schools prioritise and uphold what is vital for their well being remains a dynamic and enthusiastic process. It helps schools institutionalise the SASS Certification awarded jointly by The Teacher Foundation, and Jenny Mosley Consultancies, UK. The certificate is valid for a period of 2 years after which the school could need to request for re-accreditation – which will be a simple low-cost process.
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Name: Lalitha Email Id: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Phone No.: +91 80 41231149 Whole School Audit
While there can be no single formula for Whole School Change, there can definitely be an informed approach and framework. Based on this TTF has worked out an approach to conducting Whole School Audit, to help schools initiate change.
Target Audience
For Schools that want to do an analysis of their current status and draw up an action plan for improvement. The Whole School Change needs to be triggered by a participatory audit of the school using a School Improvement Framework to identify existing competencies in the four domains namely: Teaching Learning, Student Environment, Leadership and Community Involvement.
Outcome
Given the vision and goals of the school, the feedback of various stake holders and the audit, the school will come up with a detailed plan spanning at least two years. The plan may consist of several sub plans and will include objectives, strategies, resources, responsibilities and time-lines as well as a mechanism for monitoring progress and revising plans should it be deemed necessary.
Duration
The process will take approximately 4 months. The Whole School Audit will take 2 months, involving data collection through observations,interviews – as well as using TTF's School Improvement Framework, and subsequently preparing the report.
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