Satya Bharti School children in Punjab win international award for entrepreneurial ideas
June, 2020: Each year, the Satya Bharti Schools from different states participate in the ‘School Enterprise Challenge’ which is an international business programme for schools run by the educational charity ‘Teach A Man To Fish’.
With a focus on ideation, exploration and implementation, this story started in the month of September 2019 with 35 students (20 girls and 15 boys) of the Satya Bharti School, Umarpura, Punjab . The children had ideated a business plan under the topic ‘Plants’, which was concerned with saving the environment.
The students and teachers planned to grow flowerbeds from seeds at the backside of the school and sell them to the community members at low cost on special occasions and events. All the 35 students were divided into different departments like supervising, budgeting, marketing, financing, etc.
The result of the competition was announced in the first week of June 2020.
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This article is contributed by Mr. Sukhjinder Singh who is working with Bharti Foundation as a Cluster Coordinator in Punjab.
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.