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themselves in creating locally contextualized training   ideas and resources and collaborate. With this easy           overall school performance. There is also a need for   community, provide accessibility to high quality
          content and learning materials, the need of the hour   to navigate platform, teachers can personalize their            more experienced teachers to share their expertise with   teaching learning materials & lesson plans and build a
          is to curate and ensure high quality resources for the   learning experience with the help of self-paced courses,      the young generation of teachers and to those who are   system for recognizing teachers while shining light on
          teachers as well as students. Besides, for teachers   workshops, webinars, trainings and get recognized for            in far flung areas with limited access to resources, while   their good work. Bharti Foundation, given its extensive
          in rural India, especially with limited resources and   their contributions and achievements.                          the young teachers can help the former ones with tips   work in the rural communities, is assessing the need
          skills, navigating through the digital landscape can be                                                                and tricks about technology. Teachers are the fulcrum of   of educators in rural areas to delve on the possible
          daunting and therefore user-friendly digital platforms   Teaching, in itself, is a self-motivating job and at times    every change that NEP is looking at, be it about quality   solutions to make TheTeacherApp effective for the
          as well as short capsule trainings for teachers are also   it requires teachers to come together, share best           in education, building life skills in children or preparing   teaching community at large. The app, being one-of-a-
          required.                                            practices and support each other to improve the overall           them for the future, TheTeacherApp can support       kind, will enable the educators in learning and growing
                                                               learning experience of students. They need resources              educators to bring in the much-required transformation   together thereby, making a significant stride in the ever-
          Bharti Foundation is working towards creating such a   that would support them in making their classroom               in schools in this digital age.                      evolving education landscape. Its success will establish
          platform with high quality, field-tested resources and   teaching effective while reducing the time spent on                                                                the power of technology in education and foster an
          an online supportive community for teachers through   administrative aspects. This app will help teachers,             More innovative players like civil societies, NGOs,   online community that is always keen to learn and
          an app called ‘TheTeacherApp’ where the educators can   school leaders and educationists with engaging                 corporate foundations should step in to bridge the   support each other in the growth process, regardless of
          learn from each other, share best practices, exchange   scholastic and co-scholastic content for improving             gaps in teaching, support educators with a supportive   location or socio-economic background.


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