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Vision 2025: Changing the Paradigms of Teaching

Maya Menon

Established in 2002

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What's wrong with our Teaching?

Let's take a brief peek into one small 'anonymous' class....

Film clip

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What's wrong with our Teaching?

1. Shortage of Teachers - 448 million children under 18 years and approx. 7 million teachers

2. Untrained or Inadequately trained Teachers

3. A Systemic Absence of Vision, Purpose & Urgency

BUT ARE THEY

LEARNING ?

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Children's Learning Outcomes

It is what the teacher ‘believes and does’ in the classroom that matters

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The Impact of a Good Teacher

The most important predictor of student achievement is Teacher Quality

“ Teacher represents the most significant resource contributing to academic achievement” (Hanushek & Rivkin 2006)

I have a dream that one day India will rise up and live out the true meaning of its intent: "...that every child has a right to ... education of an equitable quality and relevance in a school which satisfies all essential norms and standards."

I have a dream that one day, in our schools, children regardless of social status,or economic status, caste, or creed, will be able to learn and play together in an atmosphere of mutual respect and affection.

I have a dream that one day every Indian school, burdened by bureaucratic neglect and guilty of inequity, inequality and lack of opportunity, will be transformed into safe, sensitive spaces for learning with freedom and fairness.

Dr. Martin Luther King's 50 year old speech paraphrased....

I have a dream that our grandchildren will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the circumstances of their birth but by their competence and content of their character.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day, in every school and classroom, teachers will uphold with honour, their amazing power to do the right thing for every child, every day, and to see that no child, however disadvantaged, misses the education that is her right.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day the best young men and women in our country, will seek to be teachers, not just for the status the profession offers, but for the satisfaction of nurturing India's human potential.

Dr. King's speech paraphrased....

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My Vision 2025 for Teaching

Holistic development of children's physical, cognitive, creative, social and emotional capacities....

Conducive and large classrooms as spaces for learning

Humane Working conditions for all teachers

The best teachers stay on in teaching – leading from the classroom!

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Strategy for Vision 2025

A National Consortium of Teacher Leaders (NCTL)

State Consortium of Teacher Leaders (SCTL)

A Professional Cadre of 'Executive Teachers'

Initial teacher training de-linked from awarding of qualified teacher status

Qualified Teacher Status through the Teacher Eligibility Test & portfolio review by a locally organised panel of teacher educators, SCTL members & school principals

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The Reach of Executive Teachers

NCTL, SCTL – public-private partnerships with a clear charter of objectives

5000 – 10,000 Executive Teachers per State

Their brief - each MUST improve teaching-learning against set goals in 10 schools within 3 years

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Learning Standards for students

Clear and appropriate educational goals that help teachers to assess and monitor student progress.

They are a set of guidelines for instruction, shaping and influencing the learning that takes place in the classroom.

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Teaching Standards

Learner Development

Learning Differences

Learning Environments

Content Knowledge

Application of Content

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Teaching Standards

Assessment

Planning for Instruction

Instructional Strategies

Professional Learning and Ethical Practice

Leadership and Collaboration

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Good Teaching Happens when...

Rigorous Teacher Preparation and selection

Defined Career Pathways for Teachers

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Won't this result in creating a cadre of teacher bureaucrats (ITS) ?!

Not if....

The professional brief is exacting and demands accountability, action & outcomes

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The World becomes.....

What we teach...... (Zoe Weill)

The world will NOT become what we don't teach

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Change needs a hefty push !

To know about change is to know about inertia, which is to say that sometimes the status quo needs a wakeup call. You can’t wait for success, you have to kick start it. (Fullan, 2009)

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Every teacher more enabled, more inspired!

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