Barefoot Teachers Training Programme

Barefoot Teachers Training Programme

The principal concept of the Barefoot Teachers Training programme is that ‘People only need feet to walk, shoes are a luxury’. Given the millions of children who need to be educated in India, a highly theoretical two- year Teachers Training Course is an unrealistic luxury. The goal of the Barefoot Teacher’s Training course is to give the essential inputs through a very thorough practical exposure in a relatively shorter period so that the trainees are equipped to teach in circumstances that provide the bare minimum. This project aims to create a new generation of trained teachers from among the deprived communities in remote villages and rural areas. Along with the capacity building of the community teachers of rural Bengal, we are also reaching out to formal school teachers as well as NGO teachers of other states like, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Manipur, Meghalaya, Madhya Pradesh etc.

Each year we train grass root level teachers from small NGOs and communities so that they can continue to stay in their own community and help educate their children. Till date we have trained more than 16,000 teachers touching the lives of more than 500,000 children throughout India. Currently for the year 2018 we have trained 323 teachers from Jharkahand , Uttar Pradesh , Bihar and different districts of West Bengal .\

The idea of Equity in learning has been introduced in the training session for the first time in 2020-2021. Equity means that personal or social circumstances such as gender, ethnic origin or family background, are not obstacles to achieving educational potential. Equity should not be confused with educational equality, which means providing each student the equivalent resources.
The concept of Age-appropriate Baseline Test of students has been introduced. From the training, the trainee will learn how to set basic Question Paper, Language development and number development. Importantly, appropriate use of T.L.M. (Teaching Learning Material) in classroom will be taught.
Modern Classroom Management Strategies has been incorporated where the teachers will know about modern classroom strategie.
Model Idea Behavior of Teachers is to be maintained by the teachers and will learn to follow the modern strategis.

Online Intervention – The new initiative due to Pandemic

We are aware that the 2nd wave of COVID-19 has hit India very badly and as our beneficiaries were already at a variable state this have made them fall in to a more vulnerable state. The second wave has adverse effect on the lives of children, young people and the aged. The situations are becoming very serious. So, we have arranged the online Barefoot Teachers Training from the month of May 2021 to be safe of staff and Trainees.