The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in schools shut across the world. Globally, over 1.2 billion children are out of the classroom. As a result, education has changed dramatically, with the distinctive rise of e-learning, whereby teaching is undertaken remotely and on digital platforms. Apart from many natural constraints and challenges that online learning brings, research also suggests that online learning has been shown to increase retention of information, and take less time, meaning the changes coronavirus have caused might be here to stay
Room to Read envisions leveraging the digital space to reach out and create a bridge and make quality learning opportunities available and accessible to all. In this context, Room to Read envisions designing a Life Skills Course for Educators to reach out to the educator community to support them with building conceptual understanding of essential 21st-century skills and transacting them in real-time. The course will attempt to raise discussions Life Skills education as a critical element for in-service teacher training, be it as a pedagogical tool or a subject matter discipline in itself. The online self-paced course will be developed to engage the educators, teachers, trainers on advancing their skills as Life Skills facilitators.
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About the course
An educator’s role has always been a very important and dynamic one. Educators are responding to the demands of the changing nature of children and adolescents, the growing demands of the global economy, the rapid advancements in technology, the recent boom in the digital teaching-learning space on an everyday basis. Therefore, there is an urgent need that educators be provided and enabled with resources, platforms, and space to reflect on and learn about Life Skills Education to:
- Reflect on their own set of life skills and develop their own repertoire of what life skills are,
- Understand the usefulness of embedding life skills in everyday teaching-learning and
- Build a solid understanding of knowing how to transact life skills education in their classrooms as well as out-of-classroom settings.
- Use their knowledge and skills, apply knowledge to new situations, analyze information, comprehend new ideas, communicate, collaborate, solve problems, and make informed decisions.
- Develop essential constructs of life skills which not only help them to face challenges in life confidently but also to train their students, and to utilize the skills in their personal and professional life.
Room to Read aims to develop a conceptual understanding of five sets of skills in educators – Self-awareness and empathy; communication and interpersonal skills; decision making, problem-solving, and goal setting; critical thinking and creative thinking; and coping with emotions and stress.
To apply
- Interested individuals/agencies may apply with their CV/ organization profile
- Please send in your CV with details of the experience of working on similar projects
- Samples of previously designed digital courses relevant to this application.
- Please send in the various stages of the assignment that you identify along with the time frame in the technical proposal.
- The technical proposal only should be sent at Procurement.India@roomtoread.org (without copying anyone from RTR)
- The last date of submission would be 4th July 2021 by EOD.
- Subject Line Should be: Technical proposal for Digitization Partner for Developing Online Course Life Skills Course for Educators
For detailed information, click this link to check the complete version of the RFP.
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