Imparting Skills to Empower Women
August 2019: In Satya Bharti School Harinagar in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, a group of students decided to extend basic education among the women in the community. Most of the women who reside in the village do not know how to read or write. They are often dependent on their male members of the family or neighbours to assist them in basic tasks, such as making a phone call, reading/writing or sending a message.
Inspired to help the women of the village, the group of students planned to conduct workshops to teach women and the elderly basic alphabets, numbers, words, calculations, and basic functions of a mobile phone. Leading the process, the students chose the venue, extended invitations, procured blackboards and other equipment, and assigned two students to one participant to ensure effective communication.
As the word spread, more women reached out to the students and attended the workshops. To make the learning process sustainable, scalable and impactful, the students developed a peer learning model, where a trained woman teaches other women in the community and pass on the skills to them.
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.