teacher leadership program
Courage to Teach, a teacher leadership program for elementary school teachers (Kindergarten to Grade 8), is an initiative of Disha India Centre for Experiential Learning to support schools in developing inspired and reflective teachers who can lead the school reform process of building an empowered and learning culture both inside and outside the classrooms.
the program objectives are
a. To redefine learning. To understand the theory of experiential learning and how do children learn.
b. To connect with the inner being and explore the true self.
c. To understand the pedagogy and structure of language development, Mathematics and Environment Studies (EVS) and what does it take to integrate the curriculum and teaching.
d. To understand the discipline of Projects (PBL) as a pedagogy of real and contextual learning
e. To learn how to observe and connect with children and how to build the culture of learning and excellence in the classroom.
f. To understand the discipline of action research and lesson study for improving the teaching-learning processes inside the classroom.
g. To redefine the role of a teacher and understand the discipline of teacher leadership.
the program structure and design
Courage to Teach is a 14-day learning program where teachers will go through integrated real-life experiences and in the process develop the required understanding and skills. The teachers will experience the power of paradigms, structures and practices that we would like them to re-think and re-invent in schools. It is a fully residential program comprising of three modules spread over six months. First module is an outbound module for four days and the second and third module are for five days each. The workshop modules will be supplemented by project work and one-on-one coaching.
action research projects
Teachers will be required to work on a action research project during the program. The project will be around practices that teachers would like to implement in their classrooms.
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Some of the schools which participated in the previous courage to teach programs are
• The Heritage School, Gurgaon and Vasant Kunj
• Mayoor School, Ajmer
• Welham Girls' School, Dehradoon
• Azim Premji Foundation, Banglore
• Army Public School, Banglore
• The Akansha Foundation, Mumbai and Pune
• Jingle Bell Academy, Faisabad
• Seth Bajaj Public School, Mirzapur
• Vijay Foundation, Andra Pradesh
• Al-Ameen Academy, Kolkatta