Master Teacher Maths

**Master Teacher (PCMB), Avanti Fellows**

**Position Summary**:
We are looking for a Master Teacher who will be responsible for managing the end-to-end operations of the Alumni relation and Scholarship. The responsibilities include building a collaboration with different organizations

**The role of a Master Teacher involves the following tasks, functions and responsibilities**:
**1. Classroom Teaching and Management**
- Conduct Online/Offline classes
- Prepare for classroom sessions with Presentation Slides in advance and teach students for ~30 hours a week using Avanti’s unique pedagogy in which students discuss conceptual questions with peers and work collaboratively on problem sets/assignments
- Explain concepts with clarity in a creative & interesting way using real life examples.
- Actively monitor students’ progress, their classwork and homework to ensure that they are on track to achieve their learning goals

**2. Training of trainee teachers**
- Orient new hires about Avanti Pedagogy and introduce them to teaching process
- Conduct training sessions to new hires and help them improve in teaching skills and maintain the training notes

**3. Mentoring, Career Guidance and Academic Support**
- Build strong relationships with students through one-on-one interaction sessions, helping students overcome their problems - both academic and personal - in the process
- Regularly work with students to break down their academic workload into small achievable goals;
- Track their progress on these goals
- Debrief with students regularly on their test scores and classroom performance (both State Board and

Avanti); suggesting ideas for improvement
- Enable students to chalk out their future career paths by providing them with information about different options available to them based on their strengths and interests **4. Parent Engagement**
- Discuss student performance with their parents in person or over phone at least once a month.
- Conduct Parent Teacher Meetings(PTMs) in schools at least once every 3 months and share aggregate and individual reports on student performance with parents

**5. Data Analysis**
- Consistently collect and upload feedback about classroom and test performance on Avanti’s online learning management system
- Quarterly analyze students’ performance and track high/low performers; provide necessary support.
- Generate insights on reasons for poor student performance; devise solutions to address those problems.

**5. Additional Initiatives**
- Create a healthy learning culture by working on initiatives like (but not limited to) arranging expert guest sessions, organizing field trips/excursions, planning scientific debates in the classroom, etc.

**Requirements**:

- Basic proficiency in using computer software
- Full time degree in M.Sc./ B.E./B.Tech/M.Tech
- Passion for teaching & working in the Education Sector.
- Previous experience in teaching is a plus.
- Experience required is 4-6 years of JEE/NEET level teaching
- Ability to connect with, inspire and motivate students
- Strong interpersonal & communication skills

**Salary Details**:Commensurate with experience

**Location**:Pondicherry

**Reporting to**:Program Manager

**About Avanti Fellows**
Avanti runs the largest system-wide interventions for Math and Science learning in government schools in India. Avanti uses the power of blended-learning, technology, and peer-instruction to create programs that are able to deliver consistent outcomes in low-resource settings. Our work spans nine Indian states impacting over 8 lakh students through large system-wide interventions in Haryana and the Jawahar
Navodaya Vidyalaya Schools.
**Avanti’s JNV Program**:This program supports students at the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Schools
(JNVs) to prepare for high-stakes college entrance exams. The JNVs are a network of 635 rural
“magnet-schools” where >400,000 of India’s most gifted rural, low-income students are provided free residential education. Students going through the Avanti JNV program are twice as likely to be able to secure a position in professional colleges. 60% of students in Avanti supported schools clear the national engineering exam, compared to a national average of 34%.
**Avanti’s Sankalp Program**:Over the past 2 years, Avanti has been running a large system change project in Haryana. The project covers 219 intervention schools, where teachers are being provided with technology and content to teach Mathematics and Science in Grade 9-12.
**Avanti’s Sandbox Project**:This project consists of a carefully selected set of 40 schools spread across Delhi and Haryana which will be the base for our research and innovation initiatives. The objectives are to
- i) inform product and program development, ii) rapidly test hypotheses and iterate program components, and iii) derive learnings to enable scaling of tested programs.
**Avanti’s Ghar Pe School Program**:During COVID-19, Avanti has been coordinating a multi-s