Teach for India Fellowship 2009 - Apply now

Teach For India Fellows

The Teach For India Fellowship will probably be the most challenging experience of a Fellow's life and likely the most transformational. As a teacher, every day will give Fellows multiple opportunities to confront and tackle challenges, motivate diverse stakeholders to work hard toward a shared vision, create and adjust plans to move further towards goals and gain the confidence they need to succeed.

Role of TFI Fellows

Every Teach For India Fellow will have two main responsibilities, through which he/she will learn leadership skills in a hands-on, results-driven environment.

• Classroom Instructional Leadership

  Fellows will be full-time teachers in English-medium government or low-income private schools for two consecutive academic years (June through April). Fellows are expected to lead students in their classrooms toward academic achievement that defies traditional expectations. Fellows will foster this achievement by getting to know their students in and out of the classroom; creating instructional plans to match the whole class's and individual student's needs; delivering instruction in an engaging manner; working with other teachers, administrators and community members to build skills and obtain resources for the classroom; and administering and analyzing assessments to ensure that students are progressing towards their academic goals.
  

• Classroom/Community Transformation Project

  In the second year of the Fellowship, in addition to teaching, Fellows will implement a project in the school and/or students' community. The project will seek to tackle a principal challenge to students' achievement. To carry out this project effectively, Fellows will research and plan the project; amass resources necessary to implement the project; invest students, families, teachers, administrators and/or community members to help implement the project; and troubleshoot the project in its execution phase.

For more details: http://www.teachforindia.org/applynow.html

 

"Right to Education" Bill finally passed by Indian Govt.

The Union Cabinet in India has cleared the long-pending Right to Education Bill, which promises free and compulsory education to every child. The move should provide a much needed boost to the country's education sector.

Key provisions of the Bill include:
1) 25% reservation in private schools for disadvantaged children from the neighbourhood, at the entry level. The government will reimburse expenditure incurred by schools.
2) No donation or capitation fee on admission.
3) No interviewing the child or parents as part of the screening process.

http://infochangeindia.org/200811047453/Education/News/Right-to-Education-Bill-cleared.html

http://educationforallinindia.com/RighttoEducationBill2005.pdf

Pankhudi Bangalore features in Wall Street Journal (Live Mint)

Pankhudi has no employees and every individual associated with it works only as a volunteer

Pankhudi was founded in April 2005 by Shahzad Wakeel, who had then just passed out of IIT Mumbai. The foundation started as an Orkut community comprising young professionals with day jobs who were keen to contribute to society’s well-being. Pankhudi has no employees and every individual associated with it works only as a volunteer. Volunteers with the foundation in other cities work towards the education and health of street children and children living in slums.

Most volunteers with the foundation learnt of its existence through friends already working with it, or have chanced upon its website (www.pankhudifoundation.org). Volunteers in a particular city are encouraged to keep in touch via group mail or email. If a volunteer shifts to another city where Pankhudi is present, she just has to send an email to pr @ pankhudifoundation.org and she will be put in touch with local workers.

If you want to volunteer
Volunteers can teach, organize activities for the children, contribute towards the Pankhudi newsletter, or just choose to help during collection drives such as the recent Bihar flood relief drive. Pankhudi invites volunteers in seven different cities (Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Pune, Kolkotta and Chennai) to teach and work on health care drives in slums. For those who want to make contributions in kind to SRMAB, the school needs computers, headphones, sports equipment and tape recorders. They can teach or organize activities for the children.

Full article at Live Mint - Wall Street Journal.

Your Last Chance to win $10000 and expand your Social Venture

Only few days left to apply for the Best Buy @15 Challenge to win $10,000! The Application Deadline is Monday, October 27th.

For more details, check out http://www.genv.net/bestbuy or contact 1-866-788-1628 / bestbuy15@youthventure.org

 

 

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TED Prize » 37 Photographs. 3 Minutes. Millions of Lives to Save.

For the past 18 months James Nachtwey has documented the resurgence of tuberculosis in seven countries around the world. He has captured the lives of both patients and health care workers in the struggle against this ancient disease which still remains very much a part of the present. Not only does TB remain a killer disease in its most recognizable form but it is mutating into even more deadly forms: multi-drug resistant (MDR) and extremely drug resistant (XDR) TB. While still a small subset of the TB cases, these new strains pose a grave global health threat.

In the words of James Nachtwey:

Normal tuberculosis, if treated diligently, is very inexpensive and doesn’t take very long to cure. But if normal TB is not treated, it mutates and becomes 100 times more expensive, requires a two-year cure and a long stay in the hospital, which many of those infected cannot afford.

The thought of XDR getting out of control is truly frightening.

Today the TED Prize and James Nachtwey, along with our visionary partners, launched a world-wide series of events and an internet movement to build awareness of this forgotten plague.

Check out another slide show of his photos on WIRED.com

Share the story. Stop the disease.

Welcome To Ashoka (India)

Welcome To Ashoka Video screened at the new Fellow Orientation in India - Sept 08.

Pankhudi Foundation "Theme Song" launched

Want to help underpriviledged children, visit us at www.pankhudifoundation.org
or email us - join @ pankhudifoundation.org