School education is one of the spaces with continuing and growing opportunities, unfortunately not much known and sometimes undervalued. It is one of the most rewarding fields, in more ways than one. This set of two talks will be about careers in school education as teachers, teacher educators, researchers and policymakers.
1. What does it mean to be a teacher and what it takes. 28th October, 2021 6.30 pm
This talk will deal with the aptitudes, abilities, qualifications, opportunities and selection process of becoming a teacher. It will also include the importance, motivation and satisfaction of being a teacher.
2. The road from being a teacher to becoming a teacher educator/ educational researcher/ curriculum maker/ educational administrator and contributing to policy. 30th October, 2021
This talk too will deal with the necessary aptitudes, abilities and qualifications and the path to becoming the above.
Both the talks place the context of the present School education system, and policy and the spaces for becoming and excelling in a teacher or teacher educator/researcher career in school education.
AnjaliNoronha has a post-graduation in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics and has worked in Eklavya since 1982. Since then she has been involved in the development of Elementary School Education through the development of Curricular programs in particular in Language and the Social Sciences for Primary and Middle Schools in Madhya Pradesh, NCERT and elsewhere. Her work has entailed direct work with schools, district, state and national level bodies.
She has also undertaken a number of studies in Madhya Pradesh including on community involvement in education, state of small schools, the working conditions of teachers and on social inclusion and exclusion in schools.
She has contributed to the development of the National Curriculum Framework focus group paper on Systemic Reform, pre-service and in-service teacher education with the National Council of Teacher Education (NCTE) Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), and the Rajasthan Government. She has been and is a member of a number of State and National bodies in education, including the 10th and 12th Plan Working groups on Teacher Education and Elementary Education and the SSA and NCTE general bodies. She has written about education policy evolution in different journals.
Since 2005, she has been involved in researching and developing programs for language learning and development of reading abilities, with particular emphasis on multilingualism, through children’s literature for the age-group 3 to 14. She has also been holding workshops for language teachers and on citizenship education.
She has a keen interest in the cross-sectional marginalization of communities, their education and the factors -- both systemic and contextual, affecting their opportunities.
These talks, organised by the Collaborative Learning Cafe, are free and open to all, but registration is usually required at http://www.collaborativelearningcafe.org
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