WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
- ● Deep commitment to work towards wellbeing and SEL of students and other stakeholders in the education system
- ● Ability to adapt and respond to difficult and uncertain circumstances
- ● Spirit of collaboration and trust in working with and supporting a team
- ● Inclination and openness to continuous learning, feedback and growth
- ● Ability to engage with and solve for inequity and exclusion with compassion
- ● Commitment to one’s own social emotional development and healing
- ● Ability and willingness to step in for responsibilities above and beyond the assigned role
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
● Student learning
- ○ Plan, design and develop experiences and activities that promote the academic, physical,
- cognitive, social and emotional development of all the children
- ○ Create a safe and caring environment for children that fosters learning
- ○ Actively research and enrich facilitation/teaching skills through contemporary educational
- practices
- ○ Use varying instructional and pedagogical practices to meet different learning needs
- ○ Effectively use mediums of art, drama, stories, games, etc. to engage children in learning
- following the framework provided in the curriculum
- ○ Establish effective classroom procedures (transitions) and help create an SEL-aligned
- environment in the classroom/school
- ○ Clearly articulating learning expectations for students
● Assessment
- ○ Thoughtfully design and implement inclusive and differentiated facilitation of formative,
- summative assessments of children's development cognitively, socially, emotionally, and
- physically
- ○ Continually monitor and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health
- ○ Analyzing students learning growth and strategize differentiated support for learning and development of the students
● Caregiver engagement
- ○ Participate in caregiver meetings with the social worker
- ○ Plan and facilitate all caregiver-teacher conferences through the year to share the progress of the child’s learning and development
- ○ Visit homes of students towards building relationships and understanding context of students and families
● Documentation and reporting
○ Document all classroom activities by regularly recording attendance, photographs, session
proceedings, etc in formats/software provided
○ Create reports on the progress of students you work with
● Professional and administrative responsibilities
- ○ Track and record all inventory with assistance from the helper and admin team at Apni Shala
- ○ Ensure that space and resources in the class are used and maintained effectively
- ○ Invite and engage volunteers assigned to the class
- ○ Build meaningful relationships with various stakeholders for advancing organisational vision
- ○ Co-plan and execute school-based events with the Khoj/Apni Shala team
- ○ Attend all meetings with the school team and organizational level meetings
- ○ Support and participate in continuations of students’ learning by substituting in the across
- the school as per the need.
- ○ Planning and making teaching resources as per the plans and the need of the learning
- experiences for the students
● Self and Peer/Team Development
- ○ Work towards personal and professional development (PD) goals of self and peers by
- actively and particiatorganizational PDs and other relevant workshops/courses or reading
- and researching on relevant themes, co-planning and collective work
- ○ Facilitate supervision meetings with teaching interns aimed at building a practice of
- reflection, personal and professional development
- ○ Participate in supervision meetings facilitated by your supervisor aimed at building a
- practice of reflection, personal and professional development
- ○ Participate in review processes for the team and self
- ○ Participate in practice-based resources (articles, videos, podcasts, etc) are produced by
- Apni Shala team
● Organizational development
- ○ Participate in resource mobilisation, fundraising, advocacy, communications, culture
- building and other related activities as guided by the organisation
● Partnership and Relationship Development with Government Stakeholders
- ○ Build healthy relationships with government staff in the school
- ○ Work with the team to ensure government regulations and compliance requirements are
- met in a timely manner
QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
- ● B.Ed/D.Ed or E.CC. ed degree
- ● Well developed oral and written communication in English
- ● Fluent conversational skills in Hindi and/or Marathi
- ● Familiarity and practice or experience with variety of art techniques and approaches to teach or
- facilitate the use of art
- ● Ability to build and nurture relationships with young learners of 4 to 12 years of age
- ● Fluency in using Microsoft office, Google Apps (Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides)
- ● Flexibility and ability to change as per contextual needs
- ● Ability to plan and problem solve to make context informed decision in the interest of student wellbeing
- and learning
- ● Proficiency in using Zoom, Google meet or other online platforms for facilitating online learning