Why We Exist?
9 MILLION TEACHERS
*1 out of 7 teachers in India clears the Teacher Eligibility Test
There are 9 million teachers in India and we add
another 900,000 teachers every year. Year after year, we
have seen that only 1 out of 7 teachers in India clear
the Teacher Eligibility Test conducted by the Government
of India. Clearly, our teachers still need conceptual
clarity. The training infrastructure in our country has
failed our teachers who, like any other serious professionals
such as lawyers, doctors, etc., require regular and continuous professional development.
This a big problem because the 250 million children
currently enrolled in schools, completely depend
on their teachers for learning.
TheTeacherApp aspires to address this gap. We are
building interactive, digital content which can be
accessed by any teacher or anyone interested in teacher
education, for free.
Our Mission
Our Approach
Our exploration started in 2016, where we were putting
pieces together to develop a solution which is designed
for scale and which works within the existing teacher
support infrastructure. Our answer was within MOOC
technology but we knew that we had to customize MOOC
format for our target audience. We arrived at what we
call ‘Sweet spot’ format.
Following are the attributes of a good digital
learning experience for teachers:
- Audio visual
- Short and modular
- Constructive
- Interactive
- Delivered in a local language (Hindi)
- Consumes less than 100 MB to access on a smartphone
- Downloadable and offline
- Open source
TheTeacherApp aims to create digital learning experiences for teachers in India and provide access to these experiences through an android app, such that these experiences are accessible for all audiences freely.
Our Values
