Opportunity Details
Teach Student Virtually @Lotus Petal Foundation
The teacher volunteer connects to a digital classroom in Lotus Petal Foundation, through Skype/Zoom, and conducts a live, interactive class for 2 hours every week. A minimum commitment of 12 weeks is expected from each volunteer. The subjects to be taught are English, Mathematics, Science. Each Volunteer is assigned a grade (5th, 6th, 7th or 8th) in school class. The selected volunteers need to be fluent in Hindi, English. Powered by advanced technology and an elaborate syllabus, Teacher Volunteers virtually engage with the children on a real time basis and perform the tasks of teaching/demonstrating the pre-planned topics and concepts, appropriate to the student’s grade. They extensively use online teaching resources, including digitized textbooks that is provided to them. They are also offered constant support from an online Coordinator at the back end. Requirments: • Able to Read, Write and SpeakHindi, English. • Access to a Desktop/Laptop with high speed Internet (1 Mbps). • Comfortable with browsing websites like YouTube, Google Search, PDF documents etc. • Eager to include passion and commitment to the cause of quality education. • Use online teaching resources, including digitized textbooks and other such material that is provided by eVidyaloka. Key Responsibilities: 1. Volunteer has to teach either Math or Science. 2. Volunteer will have to give two hours for teaching. 3. Volunteer will have to visit the organisation to teach children. 4. Volunteer will have to teach children from 9th Std to 10th Std. Time Duration: Feasible as per volunteer Time Commitments: Anytime for 2 hours between 2.30 pm to 4.30 pm About the NGO: November 2011 saw the birth of Lotus Petal Foundation, a non-profit set up by a young professional, Kushal Raj Chakravorty, with the objective of helping children in the urban slums of India lead better lives and get access to quality education and healthcare. Access to quality education, basic healthcare and a secure life of dignity is still a distant dream to the underprivileged in India. Each year 5 million children are deprived of access to primary education. The inequality is stark and concerned a few young professionals who were busy living their life from one deadline to the other. What started as a modest school with 7 children in a shopping arcade is a movement that brings together individuals and organizations from all across the planet who donate towards providing free, private-school like, quality education to the children living in the slums of Gurugram, India. The school aims at grooming students who are confidently bilingual and have skill-based education that leads them directly to the job market.
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Age Minimum (with Adult): 12+, Minimum Age:18+
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