What opportunities are there those who do not want to teach, but want to be associated with the cause?
Persons who are interested in
volunteering for the cause can support us by taking up the following roles:
- Country coordinators or regional
- coordinators
- Batch Coordinators.
- Class coordinators
- Teaching or technical Mentors
- Training and mentoring coordinators
- Content Creators
What is the role of Country
or regional coordinators?
Country or regional
coordinators have the following responsibilities:
- Initiate conversation with contacts in a new country or region, pooled from all volunteers either by being in the same region or elsewhere.
- Work along with willing contacts to crowdsource local teachers or candidates willing to teach after undergoing training.
- Interact with Local Hindu or Indian associations and their management to get support for setting up batches in such country or region.
- Spread WhatsApp messages to all contracts in that country for spreading information about new batches in that region.
- Manage the roll out of Google forms, create WhatsApp groups, create student batches, allot teachers and manage the commencement and smooth operation of classes.
- Have overall supervision of batches being conducted in the country or region.
- Manage a team of Batch Coordinators.
What is the role of
Batch Coordinators?
Batch Coordinators will have
the following responsibilities:
- Manage all technical and communication issues for a set of allotted batches.
- Be the point of contact for parents, participants and teachers of those set of batches for sorting any issues or requests.
- Manage substitution of teachers of those batches.
- Control sharing of learning materials with participants in those batches.
- Ensure that the quality of teaching is maintained by intermittently attending classes of all teachers and informing Country Coordinators.
- Coordinate with all class coordinators
- Update weekly attendance at each of the batches.
- Rolling out messages to teachers or participants or both.
- Conduct monthly meetings with teachers and other coordinators.
What is the role of
Class Coordinators?
Class coordinators will have
the following responsibilities:
- Operate google meet, for those teachers who cannot independently handle google meet.
- Allow participants into the class.
- Share slides
- Control the meeting to prevent any out of the line behaviour during the class.
- Help the teacher smoothly conduct the class.
- Report about class activities to the Batch coordinators.
What is the role of teaching
or technical Mentors?
Teaching Mentors are people
who have taught or are teaching the Shlokas and who are willing to guide new
teachers in learning the Shlokas.
- They will help new teachers in perfecting:
- the wordings of the shlokas
- the pronunciations
- the rule of chanting
- Tune of chanting
- Technical mentors will help new teachers to learn to operate google meet classes.
What is the role of Training
and Mentoring Coordinators?
- Training and mentor coordinators will help Senior Teachers to conduct training sessions for new teachers and for existing teachers for next stages.
- They will coordinate from the time of announcement of new teachers training till the completion of training and mentoring for such teachers and completion of allocation of batches for new teachers.
What is the role of content
creators
- Content creators will help senior teachers to create teaching and learning materials on need basis.
- It may include coordinating for audio recording or preparation of slides or translation.
Can we take multiple
roles?
- Yes
- Most of the current volunteers have taken up multiple roles and some teach as well as coordinate.
Is there any
financial benefit involved?
- No, the entire activity is being carried out as a service.
- We will not collect money from any students nor pay money to any person for volunteering or for other work.
Can we choose to volunteer
only on certain day of the week or as and when free?
- Yes
- Any support is welcome as long as there is consistency and commitment for the rule undertaken.
Will coordinator be trained
for the roles?
- Yes
- Senior coordinators will work with new coordinators till they become comfortable with their roles.