Children Activity Centre Teacher

Role & responsibilities

The role is responsible for identifying, enrolling, and supporting children who require academic assistance through Children Activity Centres (CACs), including preparation of child profiles and individual learning plans. It focuses on improving childrens learning outcomes through structured teaching-learning activities, regular assessments, creative learning methods, and continuous tracking of attendance and progress. The role also supports child protection, life skills, psychosocial support, awareness activities, and community engagement involving children, parents, and community groups. It involves strengthening linkages with various stakeholders to prevent dropouts, and bring never-enrolled children into formal education. The position ensures the effective functioning of CAC activities through field-level monitoring, documentation, reporting, stakeholder coordination, and identification and sharing of best practices.

• Identification of eligible children who requires academic support and link them in Children Activity Centre (CAC).
• Prepare Child Profile and Individual child plan of all the children enrolled in the CAC.
• Enhance children learning at CAC by conducting teaching-learning activities
• Prepare monthly Plan for conducting teaching-learning process
• Conduct Baseline & year-end assessments (in written, oral format) of childrens learning levels in language and mathematics and collate the data and share it with the programme manager
• Conduct quarterly need assessment for children at CACs and presenting the inferences to the stakeholders
• Conduct meetings with the parents of the children on monthly basis and share the progress of the children regularly.
• Conduct home visits of the children who are absent from the CAC to ensure regularity of the children in the CAC.
• Enrolling children in the schools, ICDS centers and linking the children with NIOS.
• Develop new, creative activities as appropriate for the children to enhance their learning abilities.
• Consistently collect data on activities implemented at CAC level and attendance, recording attendance of children. submit weekly reports that are on time and of high quality
• Ensure adherence to the Code of Conduct and reporting procedure.
• Responsible for supporting child group, Adolescent group and Community Group activities, including life skills sessions, psychosocial support and awareness.
• Run awareness sessions for children and parents, and support other project staffs to facilitate awareness sessions, as required.
• Flag protection issues which need to be addressed through awareness raising activities and support the development of key message and materials
• Build and manage relationships with Government school management
• Ensure smooth functioning and implementation of programme activities at CARCs along with the expected outputs
• Attend and share the experience in regular weekly/monthly/quarterly meetings.
• Organise and Participate in Community and SMC meetings.
• Document the Best Practices being used in CACs, Prepare monthly report of the work.
• Regular tracking of children in community.
• To identify dropout and Never to School children and make efforts to enroll them in government schools.
• To support organising enrolment drive campaign in slums with the support of Government teachers, SMC members and Education government authorities.

Kind of experience: Training, Mobilization,