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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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