The Buzz @ TTF

Whew! What a topsy-turvy and difficult year it has been for all schools, teachers and most importantly students. But from crisis comes change and for many many schools it has meant a foray into online learning. This hasn't been without problems, but it's a big step towards reimagining our teaching and pedagogy. A huge amount of work needs to be done to skill and support our teachers for a new paradigm of schools in the years to come – a paradigm that will necessarily include a significant amount of digital learning.

Maya Menon shares TTF's experience this past year.


 
Heads' Net Webinar
 

The National Education Policy 2020 needed to be decoded for school leaders and teachers. Meeta Sengupta, FRSA, educator, researcher and writer, did an admirable job when she spoke on The Promise of NEP 2020 for Schools at TTF's Heads' Net Webinar held on 4th March, 2021. The event saw over 700 participants from across India and a few countries from the Middle East.

Click  here for the complete talk. 

The 1K Teacher Accelerator Programme

Prerana -The Teacher Accelerated Programme (TAP) for Affordable Private Schools (APS) in Mumbai & Thane suburbs has gone online! Over 1300 teachers from 37 schools are participating in this online two year programme.
TAP provides training and educational strategies to teachers by transferring focus from teachers & teaching to learners & learning, and establishing active, participatory, and co-operative class styles using a repertoire of online tools and techniques.

 
School Leaders' Collective

As a run up to launching the 4th year of TAP, TTF held a School Leaders' Collective on 26th February, 2021. Over 75 School Heads and Leaders from Affordable Private Schools (APS) in Mumbai participated in the event.
English Encounters with Govt teacher participants in Karnataka

Over 700 teachers from 4 districts in Karnataka were given training to enhance their proficiency in spoken English within a teaching context. The enrolled teachers were very enthusiastic and actively participated in the programme, culminating in a very successful project! Listen to Nivedita's (a teacher participant from Haveri) spontaneous recount of her experience here!
 English Encounters was conducted in collaboration with DSERT & District Education Offices and support of United Way, Bangalore.

School Improvement at Raigad District – Sudhagad Pali
The School Improvement Programme in Sudhagad Pali is a holistic and coherent professional development experience that includes a few vital training sessions, both online and offline, for teachers/heads and extensive school-based support to them; including demo lessons in their schools, to help them recognise the full potential of student-centred learning practices, despite existing constraints. This is aimed to embed better teaching practices in their classrooms. In order to sustain the changes in schools, we have re-designed the School Improvement model to engage and empower the Government Officials – DIET and Cluster Heads.
Coaching for School Success (CFSS)
General Batch

With the aim of setting up a coaching culture in their schools, teachers from Vedavalli schools in Chennai & Ranipet and Govt schools in Tripura are participating in the CFSS programme. This 150 hour programme prepares senior teachers/coordinators and Heads to become change agents in their school so that they are able to foster and guide effective teaching practices in their institutions.
Coaching for School Success
Graduation Ceremony 

In the 8th year of CFSS, its 1st online batch of Coaching for School Success (CFSS) culminated with a virtual 'graduation ceremony'.

77 graduating coaches from Sri Kumaran Group of Schools, Trio World School and Oasis International School, along with their coachees attended the online ceremony. The Online CFSS comprises 26 synchronous sessions of 2 hours each; pre & post session tasks, assignments and coaching support. Sandhya Guruprasad,from Sri Kumarans’ says, "I have understood that good communication and non-judgemental feedback are major factors of coaching."

HeadLAMP - General Batch

 The second online batch of HeadLAMP for 2020-21 culminated with a Capstone Project. School leaders explored a wide range of contemporary school leadership roles, responsibilities and challenges across 18 sessions of TTF's signature school leadership course.

Rekha Chari from Mallya Aditi International School shares, "The course was well designed and delivered. It was interactive by design and kept us engaged and learning throughout. We stand informed and enlightened about our roles as leaders and the difference we can make in enriching the ethos and culture of teaching-learning in an amazing school like ours."

 
Every Teacher,

More Enabled, More Inspired

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Over a 25 year career, that is one thousand children.
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Thanks and warm regards,
Maya Menon

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