Alokito Teachers

Making teaching effortless and rewarding

Alokito Teachers is a one-stop digital platform for unsupported and underpaid teachers. To make teaching effortless, we provide teaching resources adjusted for different kinds of learners and remedies for every teaching challenge packed in bite-sized workshops and courses. Teachers as micro-entrepreneurs can earn an extra buck by selling their original resources on the platform.

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HundrED shortlisted this innovation

HundrED has shortlisted this innovation to one of its innovation collections. The information on this page has been checked by HundrED.

Web presence

2019

Established

17.3K

Children

1

Countries

Target group

Teachers

Updated

June 2022

I believe the future of education will be personalized routes to learning, nurturing the soul, and creating useful knowledge for a compassionate and united world.

About the innovation

Why did you create this innovation?

Teachers are the most important ingredient to ensuring quality education yet they are unsupported, untrained, and underpaid. Out of 1 mil teachers who lacked training only 28% were trained (ILO, 2017). Burdened with designing lesson plans, and worksheets, addressing and managing slow and unmotivated learners, while engaging fast learners; teachers struggle to find the right support.

What does your innovation look like in practice?

Our approach is based out of Alokito Hridoy School with 250 children of factory workers and 11 teachers, where we run teaching-learning experiments and gather evidence. The teaching experiments with the best outcomes are designed into professional development programs. To support teachers, we developed a one-stop web platform with courses and teaching resources such as lesson plans, worksheets, videos, and images. On our web platform, the journey of a teacher begins with earning scores and badges by completing courses and participating in workshops. These badges and scores are accumulated on a leaderboard and on their profiles serving as resumes and can be used to apply for jobs on our web platform. To empower teachers, we are enabling them as micro-entrepreneurs to earn by selling their original resources.

How has it been spreading?

Since our inception in 2019, we have trained 17,277 teachers across English medium, Bangla medium, English version, and Madrasah who in turn have impacted an estimated 516,810 students across Bangladesh. Our plans for the next 2 - 3 years are as follows:
2022 - Launch Alokito Teachers APP which will be like a teacher’s assistant app
2023 - Establish a marketplace for 21st century teachers. Onboard/Train 985 new teachers by the end of 2023.
2024 - Be recognised as a trusted platform for educator recruitment. Onboard/Train 13,150 teachers by the end of 2024.
2025 - Build the biggest repository of teaching resources. Onboard/Train 37,310 teachers by the end of 2025.

If I want to try it, what should I do?

You should visit our website www.alokitoteachers.com and sign up! You will get access to the courses, workshops, blogs, and resources. You can also visit our social media pages to see updates and information about us.

Media

Game-based Learning Workshop- Asian International School

Mentoring Session at European Standard School

Student Focused Learning Workshop at EMK Center

Game-based Learning Workshop- EMK Center

Problem-based Learning Workshop- 1

Mentoring Session at Playpen School

Implementation steps

Alokito Teachers Journey to inspire and empower

Step 1: Identify the pain-points of teachers through surveys and need-assessment. This first phase is the most important step for us. By doing this we are able to clearly assess the problems and issues that teachers are facing in their classrooms. We are also able to identify the gaps in their teaching methods which in turn helps us to design our workshops effectively.

Step 2: Our workshop designs are effective because they are based on experiential learning. This is the process of learning by doing. So when we are sketching out the plan, we make sure to include hands-on experiences for every technique/method we introduce so they are better able to connect theories and knowledge learned in the workshops to real-world situations.

Step 3: We. are constantly collecting evidence from Alokito Hridoy School - our school research lab. Basically we try and test different topics, for example, Game-based Learning or Problem-based Learning with the teachers at this school. Once we conduct a workshop, we go back to observe the classrooms to see how these techniques are being implemented and what problems our teachers face while implementing them. We collect these evidence, adapt, adjust and contextualise the design of the workshop for the greater teacher community.

Step 4: Our workshops are highly actionable. This means that our workshops are not theory-based. We make sure that every method and/or technique we teach, we teach through hands-on activities. We show them how they can implement in classrooms, give them examples of activities they can do and do these activities with them. After that, we make sure that the teachers also receive a mentoring session from us to get feedback and solutions to the problems they may face while implementing in classrooms.