Fostering Empathy Among Young Souls
August 2019: Every child deserves to be mentored not only to face the world but to change it as well! And our contribution should be to give our children a safe and happy environment so that they grow up to be confident, fearless and ready to change the world. And most of all, sow the seeds of empathy in their hearts.
Taking a positive step in this direction, students of Khatsoo Ripnar Brightstar School in Meghalaya came together to raise awareness among their peers and the community against bullying to make children more sensitive towards this issue. The students launched a holistic campaign for over a period of 30 days. It was organized in the school in the form of taking pledge in the morning assembly, organizing group discussions to encourage children to talk about bullying, displaying message against child abuse all over the school, and inviting speakers from Child Helpline to raise awareness among children.
The students also organized rallies in the community to highlight this subject among parents and other members. The campaign played a very important role in ensuring that children respect each other, and stand for each other.
Job Description Academic Mentor
- To support School Heads / Principals and strengthen the curriculum planning, delivery and class room transaction process for improved effectiveness.
- To optimize usage and improvement of school’s infrastructure and facilities especially working toilets, functional library, computer labs, Science labs and energized classrooms.
- To activate critical processes such as sports, drawing and other student cantered activities and events.
- To smoothen academic operations throughout the year and also non-academic operations viz sports day, annual day, republic day, community volunteering, PTM etc.
- To support teachers through interactive sessions.
- To conduct subject wise week in schools for Science, English and Math linked with the annual curriculum.
- To extend technical support to teachers on subject specific skills.
- To support on difficult concepts and conduct specific need-based refresher training.
- To extending support in planning the entire academic year including curriculum rollout, remedial, assessments and processes for ongoing monitoring and mentoring.
- Candidates should aware about local language.