Primary Teacher

**Door Step School** is a registered voluntary non-governmental organization working to promote education and impart literacy skill among the socially and economically disadvantaged children in slum communities in Mumbai and also in Pune. To cater to the scattered group of children on street, Door Step School runs "School on Wheels". Through direct intervention in communities and corporation schools in both cities the organization reaches out to more than 1,20,000 children. The Door Step School has many more developmental programs in slum communities and government school for underprivileged children’s overall development.

DSS teachers will create close relationships with students and their families to provide the students with a high caliber education that enables them to easily transition to formal schools. Teachers will be responsible for recognizing gaps in a child’s education and developing and implementing curriculum to develop a child’s intellectual and social skills.

**Key Areas of Responsibilities**:
**Assist team leader/coordinator in developing community relations and encouraging families to enroll their children in school.**

**Create and maintain an inviting learning environment.**

**Create lesson plans that engage students and develop their intellectual and social skills.**

**Administrative responsibilities.**

**Specific Responsibilities**:
1**. Assist Team Leader/Coordinator in developing community relations and encouraging families to enroll their children in school**
- Assist team leader / coordinator with conducting a door to door community survey
- Identify new children to enroll
- Build rapport with parents through home visits and parents meetings
- Following up on irregular children in the class, ensuring high percentage of attendance in class
- Collect community contributions.

**2. Create and maintain an inviting learning environment**
- Make optimum use of the classroom space
- Ensure that materials needed for class are requisitioned and received on time
- Ensure class is clean and materials needed for the day are prepared before class begins
- Record attendance daily and employ methods by which to encourage high levels of attendance
- Build a rapport with and amongst the children and create an environment where children are encouraged to learn, share and express themselves
- Use democratic techniques of disciplining
- Write monthly reports that includes statistical data on student attendance and performance, information on special events, interesting observations of children, case studies and success stories

**3. Create lesson plans that engage students and develop their intellectual and social skills**
- Use a variety of methods to ensure cooperative, effective and active learning that builds rational, reflective and analytical thinking
- Develop curriculum and activities that:

- Builds vocabulary and develop language skills
- Builds social skills
- Encourages questioning and critical thinking
- Encourages student participation in the class
- Encourages observation of the physical and social environment
- Builds confidence and self esteem of the student
- Prepare tests and question papers to accurately measure student progress
- Conduct parent meetings wherein information on a student’s academic and non-academic performance is shared
- Conduct ongoing assessments of the students and tailor curriculum to fill gaps when needed

**4. Administrative Responsibilities**
- Conduct basic accounting duties for community contributions, petty cash, conveyance reimbursements
- Keep stock registers

**Experience and requirements**:

- Graduate with at least 1 to 3 years experience in the education sector, community level experience would be an added advantage
- Able to use limited resources optimally
- Willing to employ a variety of teaching methods that make learning active, fun and effective
- Able to accurately gauge areas in which students need improvement and develop lessons to meet those needs including assigning work appropriately
- Comfortable working with diverse students who often come from difficult backgrounds
- Able to serve as a role model for children in the class.

Schedule:

- Day shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Andheri, Mumbai, Maharashtra: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

**Education**:

- Bachelor's (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Teaching: 1 year (preferred)
- total work: 1 year (preferred)

**Language**:

- English (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Application Deadline: 01/08/2024