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The first half of year two is when Fellows begin to strengthen their practices as teachers and leaders towards a vision that is co-created with students and their families.
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Outcomes for Commitment to Self:
:: Fellows strengthen their teaching practices within the classroom.
:: Fellows articulate a personal theory of change that describes their strengths, values and barriers within the system that they would like to work on.
Outcomes for Commitment to Others:
:: Fellows compellingly articulate a vision of transformation for their classroom.
:: Fellows use data-driven instruction and an understanding of how children learn to reach set outcomes for every child in class.
Outcomes for Commitment to India:
:: Fellows successfully plan and execute their BTCP project.
:: Fellows develop an understanding of the policies impacting education.
:: Fellows develop an understanding of the collective vision for the region and the barriers in the way of the same.
Stage Two - The second half of Year One
Mid-Year LDJC and Post-Fellowship Conversation
The Mid Year LDJC Conversation is for you to step back and reflect on your growth towards your commitments to self, other and India. It will help you make connections between how you have evolved as a teacher- leader and your outcomes. This will also be an opportunity for you to start solidifying/concretizing the role you wish to play in the movement towards ed-equity post your Fellowship. You will leverage the reflection you have made in the last few months about your evolving Personal Theory of Change, explore the need of the ed landscape around and bring those two together to identify the pathways and domains you envision yourself working in. This conversation will be anchored in fostering that clarity and deciding next steps to build conviction in the same!
Consciousness, Critical Thinking
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Using data to cater to all my students
The mid-year assessments will give you a significant amount of data on your students' growth and learning. You will learn how to read and analyze this data, which will nuance your understanding of where each of your students is and what you will need to prioritize, shift and continue to really take outcomes to the next level. With this enhanced understanding of where your students are and what they may need, you will also be exposed to new teaching methods that you will learn and contextualize to suit the diverse needs of groups of students in your classroom.
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Critical Thinking, Creativity
1. Using data to cater to all my students
6. End of Year Summit and LDJC
2. Strengthening my teaching Practices
5.Initiating my BTCP
3. Beginning to explore my Personal Theory of Change
7. EOY Assessments
End of Year Summit and LDJC
And year 1 is a wrap! The End of Year Summit is a space that will help you consolidate your experiences and learnings from the past year, and leave you with sparks and support towards preparation for next year. It is also space for you to zoom out and deepen your understanding of the system we work in, whilst making connections to your own journey and classroom. Finally, this is a space where you come together with all the people you started your journey at Institute with, and close out the year learning from and connecting with each other. You also have a Leadership Development Journey Conversation with your Manager where you celebrate your outcomes and growth as a teacher and leader, explore how you can strengthen your classroom practices and areas of development, and begin to identify the role you would like to play post the Fellowship.
Curiosity, Collaboration
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Strengthening my teaching practices
A continuous priority in the Fellowship is for us to keep deepening our expertise as teachers, to ensure we are serving our students in the most effective way possible. In the second half of your first year, there are a number of new and exciting teaching practices that you will be introduced to - and consistently taking it back to your lesson plans and classroom is the best part! You will learn how to create assessments and strengthen the guided practice time your students engage in. You will also learn how to make connections between aspects of what you have learned so far by learning how to plan for a unit of learning. Each of these will accelerate your growth as a teacher and in turn, the growth of your students in the classroom.
Courage, Curiosity, Critical Thinking
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Beginning to explore my Personal Theory of Change
At Teach For India, we commit to constantly developing as teachers and leaders whilst supporting our students to do so. A crucial process in your Fellowship journey is exploring and creating your 'Personal Theory of Change' - A process that starts with looking within and strengthening your understanding of your values and strengths and moves into deepening your understanding of the system we work within and identifying the puzzle piece, or the problem that you want to work towards solving. What is especially enriching about this process is constantly making connections to your classroom; whether it be observing and leveraging your strengths to maximise outcomes, or enhancing your understanding of a part of the system by exploring how it plays out in your classroom or community.
Consciousness, Curiosity
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Creating a Collective, Contextual Vision
Now that you have spent 8 months in your classrooms with your students and your 1st year comes to an end, it is time to begin preparation for the next year. One of the most crucial pieces of preparation for Year 2 is creating your 'Collective, Contextual Vision' for your classroom and community for Year 2. This is where you engage in heavy research towards gaining clarity on the needs and the vision each of the stakeholders in your context have for your students, along with enhancing your vision of excellence by exploring what enablers have looked like for student success across the globe and contexts. You then put all of this research and information together to create your collective, contextual vision...or where you aim to see your classroom at the end of Year 2. In many ways, this becomes your 'North Star' through the next year - where every unit, structure and lesson you plan aligns back to your vision...so remember to give it enough research, thought and time!
Critical Thinking, Courage, Collaboration
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Initiating my Be the Change Project
Through your experience in the Fellowship so far, you may have identified a few problems in your classroom, school and/ or community that impact your students and their learning. The 'BTCP' is a platform where you are enabled to narrow down on a problem a design a solution that brings alive your vision for your classroom, school and/ or community. You will make project plans, create and deliver pitches, establish a system for monitoring and evaluation and ensure that all stakeholders are involved and meaningfully engaged. As the first step of this Project, you are introduced to a design thinking process that will enhance your research skills. This will not only help you identify a problem that is extremely relevant and aligned to your classroom vision, but push you to explore the root causes and factors of this problem before even beginning to explore solutions.
Curiosity, Courage
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EOY Assessments
As the year comes to an end, an extremely exciting and important milestone that takes place is the End of Year Assessments for students. This is the place where all of their learnings from the year is showcased. This helps us, as teachers, identify and celebrate the growth that our students have made through the year as well as what they need to work on towards improvement. This data plays a crucial role in your design and preparation for Year 2 of your Fellowship as you identify what to prioritise, shift and continue to keep strengthening student outcomes.
Courage, Critical Thinking
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4. Creating a Collective, Contextual Vision
Stage Two Milestones
Mid-Year LDJC and Post Fellowship Conversation
The Mid Year LDJC Conversation is for you to step back and reflect on your growth towards your commitments to self, other and India. It will help you make connections between how you have evolved as a teacher- leader and your outcomes. This will also be an opportunity for you to start solidifying/concretizing the role you wish to play in the movement towards ed-equity post your Fellowship. You will leverage the reflection you have made in the last few months about your evolving Personal Theory of Change, explore the need of the ed landscape around and bring those two together to identify the pathways and domains you envision yourself working in. This conversation will be anchored in fostering that clarity and deciding next steps to build conviction in the same!
Critical Thinking, Courage, Creativity
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Strengthening Teaching Practice
The first few months of the 2nd year are all about gaining depth and mastery in the competencies you have built in Year 1 to deliver the strongest outcomes with your students in the classroom. Together, your students and you work towards bringing alive your classroom vision and culture plan. You will engage with multiple resources, opportunities, and experiences that will consistently push your vision of excellence of what transformational outcomes can look like. Here is where you step out of your comfort zone further, experiment, and customize your teaching practices to empower every single child in your classroom.
Critical Thinking, Courage, Creativity
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Fellow Curriculum for Stage Two
Commitment to Self
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1. Exploring my Identity within the SystemThis module has been adapted from a section of Elena Aguilar's The Onward Book. Through this module, you will notice and reflect on your sociopoitical identities, how the intersectionalities of these muliple identities play out in your interactions with people, and what this means for the relationships that you will build with your people. LIT Focus: Proficient on Connect 3: I reflect on my biases and their impact on my relationships.
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2. Becoming conscious of my biasesAs you begin to step into communities and interact with multiple different people, you will reflect on the biases you hold, begin to explore where they stem from, and the impact that they have on your relationships. You will begin to engage in experiences that help you deconstruct these biases and explore different ways of thinking. Through their beginning interactions with a variety of individuals, you will begin to encounter ideas and perspectives that are different from your own. You will learn that the opposite of your stories can be as true as your own, and you will learn to respect diversity and difference. LIT Focus: Proficient on Connect 3: I reflect on my biases and their impact on my relationships.
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3. Managing my energy and my timeIn your first few months of the Fellowship, you will learn how to manage your energy and your time. With all the multiple things you will have to do, you will learn how to plan to complete tasks, prioritize and maximize your time. You will also begin to notice what gives you energy, what drains energy and find ways to ensure that you are adopting habits that will help you sustain yourself. LIT Focus: Proficient on Reflect 1: I am conscious of my emotions and how my states of being are impacting my work.
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4. Reflecting on my leadershipAs an ongoing component of this module, you will reflect on your growth as leaders as you navigate through challenging situations to pursue transformational growth with your students. You will examine the connection between your growth and the impact you are able to create. LIT Focus: Proficient on Reflect 3: I am conscious of the connection between outcomes and my leadership.
Commitment to Other
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1. Exploring my Identity within the SystemThis module has been adapted from a section of Elena Aguilar's The Onward Book. Through this module, you will notice and reflect on your sociopoitical identities, how the intersectionalities of these muliple identities play out in your interactions with people, and what this means for the relationships that you will build with your people. LIT Focus: Proficient on Connect 3: I reflect on my biases and their impact on my relationships.
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2. Becoming conscious of my biasesAs you begin to step into communities and interact with multiple different people, you will reflect on the biases you hold, begin to explore where they stem from, and the impact that they have on your relationships. You will begin to engage in experiences that help you deconstruct these biases and explore different ways of thinking. Through their beginning interactions with a variety of individuals, you will begin to encounter ideas and perspectives that are different from your own. You will learn that the opposite of your stories can be as true as your own, and you will learn to respect diversity and difference. LIT Focus: Proficient on Connect 3: I reflect on my biases and their impact on my relationships.
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3. Managing my energy and my timeIn your first few months of the Fellowship, you will learn how to manage your energy and your time. With all the multiple things you will have to do, you will learn how to plan to complete tasks, prioritize and maximize your time. You will also begin to notice what gives you energy, what drains energy and find ways to ensure that you are adopting habits that will help you sustain yourself. LIT Focus: Proficient on Reflect 1: I am conscious of my emotions and how my states of being are impacting my work.
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4. Reflecting on my leadershipAs an ongoing component of this module, you will reflect on your growth as leaders as you navigate through challenging situations to pursue transformational growth with your students. You will examine the connection between your growth and the impact you are able to create. LIT Focus: Proficient on Reflect 3: I am conscious of the connection between outcomes and my leadership.
Commitment to India
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1. Exploring my Identity within the SystemThis module has been adapted from a section of Elena Aguilar's The Onward Book. Through this module, you will notice and reflect on your sociopoitical identities, how the intersectionalities of these muliple identities play out in your interactions with people, and what this means for the relationships that you will build with your people. LIT Focus: Proficient on Connect 3: I reflect on my biases and their impact on my relationships.
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2. Becoming conscious of my biasesAs you begin to step into communities and interact with multiple different people, you will reflect on the biases you hold, begin to explore where they stem from, and the impact that they have on your relationships. You will begin to engage in experiences that help you deconstruct these biases and explore different ways of thinking. Through their beginning interactions with a variety of individuals, you will begin to encounter ideas and perspectives that are different from your own. You will learn that the opposite of your stories can be as true as your own, and you will learn to respect diversity and difference. LIT Focus: Proficient on Connect 3: I reflect on my biases and their impact on my relationships.
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3. Managing my energy and my timeIn your first few months of the Fellowship, you will learn how to manage your energy and your time. With all the multiple things you will have to do, you will learn how to plan to complete tasks, prioritize and maximize your time. You will also begin to notice what gives you energy, what drains energy and find ways to ensure that you are adopting habits that will help you sustain yourself. LIT Focus: Proficient on Reflect 1: I am conscious of my emotions and how my states of being are impacting my work.
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4. Reflecting on my leadershipAs an ongoing component of this module, you will reflect on your growth as leaders as you navigate through challenging situations to pursue transformational growth with your students. You will examine the connection between your growth and the impact you are able to create. LIT Focus: Proficient on Reflect 3: I am conscious of the connection between outcomes and my leadership.
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