Teacher Training

Door Step School (DSS) was established in Mumbai, India in 1989 with the

aim of addressing literacy amongst the marginalized sections of society. The

school provides education and support to the often-forgotten children of

pavement dwellers, slum dwellers and construction site families. The school

has since expanded to cover both Mumbai and Pune and has successfully

reaches out to over 50,000 children annually. Many of these children are not

enrolled in school and have limited access to books and a place to study.

Additionally, many children (particularly girls) drop out of school to work or

care for younger children. With neither support nor resources at home some

children also suffer from very low learning levels.

Since inception Door Step School has been striving to provide multiple

educational services, as per the needs of the children through Balwadis

(kindergarten), School Enrolment services, Study classes for children,

literacy classes for out of school children, computer literacy classes and

libraries for all. Door Step School provides a school bus service for younger

children and also runs a mobile school for street children and for those who

work and live in congested areas where there is no space to run a class on a

regular basis. While conducting all these programmes, Door Step School is

flexible in terms of timings, location of classes and there is no limit on

minimum number of children to start a new class.

In 1999, Door Step School (Door Step School) decided to intervene and

collaborate with MCGM to support them in imparting quality education to the

children. Such intervention was considered essential in view of the problems

of non-enrolment, wastage and stagnation observed over the years of

working in the urban slum communities. It was aimed at facilitating the

learning process as well as making the school a place conducive for learning.

Door Step School achieves its goal by running various educational

programmes like Reading Promotion activities, Libraries, Remedial

Class(Study Class), Mental health project, Pre-School(Balwadi) amongst

others in the Municipal schools.

Background

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The Trainer will be primarily based in Door Step School’s Mumbai office and

has the responsibility of training and development of staff of Door Step

School.
- Assist the Associate Director - Training to develop strategy, program

plans and budgets
- Develop curriculum and create modules/content for trainings to be

taken in-house
- Conduct the need analysis, design and conduct trainings for teachers

and coordinators
- Observe the teachers’ and coordinators’ performance of all the

programmes of DSS
- Conduct workshops and sessions for children
- Monitor impact and follow up on training activities, field visits
- Represent the organization at different platforms and other

1. Assist the Associate Director - Training to develop strategy, program

plans and budgets
- Assist the Associate Director - Training to develop strategy for

program and to develop program plans and budgets on an annual

basis
- Assist the Associate Director - Training where necessary to implement

and manage all activities of the Unit
- Provide advice and suggestions for implementation and improvement

of programmes
- Assist the Associate Director in designing new programmes for the

organization
- Help in networking and collaboration with different experts for

developing training programs, resource material etc

2. Develop curriculum and create modules/content for trainings to be taken

in-house
- Collect and collate basic background documents for training

Key Areas of Responsibilities

Specific Duties

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- Under the guidance of the Associate Director - Training, develop

training curriculum
- Create resource material like modules, handouts, learning materials

for training, session plans, worksheets and any templates as required
- Conduct a pilot with children and then make a final version of the

resource material
- Develop teaching /learning aids particularly for teachers

3. Conduct the need analysis, design and conduct trainings for teachers and

coordinators
- Plan and implement training for teachers and coordinators based on

needs assessment
- Make all logístical arrangements for scheduled trainings as per plans
- Undertake correspondence with teachers/others for participation in

training
- Contact all resource persons and make necessary arrangements for

their sessions and travel etc.
- Provide information or materials to participants as per request
- Undertake all financial management for the training which means

taking responsibility for disbursing funds, obtaining receipts for all

expenses and for preparing financial statement to submit to the

Accounts Officer
- Prepare or ensure activity report after each training

4. Observe the teachers’ and coordinators’ performance of all the

programmes of DSS
- Observe the teachers’ classroom activities and record observati