Bhubaneswar: Nearly 3,000 youths in Odisha will be trained over a period of two years to transfer the quality of the learning experience to nearly 15,000 students in their communities.
An MoU in this regard was signed Monday between ‘Mo College Abhijan Parichalana Sangathan’ and ‘Think Zone’ to implement an up-skilling training program for 3,000 college students in Odisha.
Mo College’s Chairperson Akash Dashnayak and Think Zone CEO Binayak Acharya were present during the signing of the MoU Official sources here Tuesday said during the training period the youth will be receiving certification after completing the fellowship and will continue getting paid for teaching children for a few hours a day.
The main objectives of the collaboration are to enhance the skills of youth in multiple domains which will lead to better job opportunities in the future as well as to create micro-entrepreneurial opportunities for youth in their own communities who would be implementing technology-driven education programs for children.
This will also help in improving language and arithmetic learning outcomes of children in their primary grades.
Youth in the age group of 18-26 years who are either pursuing or have completed graduation or master’s course and from rural, semi-urban and urban low-resource settings of state are eligible for the training.
Training will be imparted in offline & online sessions along with training via the ‘Think Zone’ Mobile App.
The 120 hours of training sessions are designed so that youth can develop 21st-century skills and basic skills required to teach young children.
The modules covered in the training program contain Communication, Digital skills (Social Media), Financial literacy, Micro-entrepreneurship, Classroom Management, Teaching, Mathematics, Odia, English in primary grades, Leadership as well as teaching children using a play-based methodology.
In the initial phase, Think Zone will be launching its fellowship programs across colleges in Cuttack, Kendrapara and Khordha districts. To date, Think Zone has up-skilled over 6000 youth from rural and urban areas.
UNI