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 Avanti Fellows, 1st Floor, 8/21A, Mithila Vilas 4th Cross Street, Shenoy Nagar West, Chennai -­‐ 30 Job Description: Curriculum Associate (Teacher for Mathematics and Science) – Chennai
About Avanti Fellows
Avanti is an award winning non-profit organization established by IIT alumni in 2010 to provide an affordable, highquality education to disadvantaged students aspiring to study at India’s top colleges. At present, we have 20 full-time
employees &100 volunteers, and support over 800 students in 8 locations across across 4 school systems – Corporation of
Chennai, NavodayaVidyalayas, Tibetan Administration and Haryana Government Schools.
At Avanti, we implement a unique pedagogy called Peer Instruction®that reduces teacher dependence and enables
collaborative learning. Students consume lecture content in the form of recorded videos and reading material before
attending class. In place of conventional lectures, classroom time is used to get students to work collaboratively on
problem sets and clarify doubts by interacting with subject experts. Over the past 2 years, we have shown that our
students outperform the most expensive after-school programs in the country at less than one-fourth the cost.
Avanti is a PanIIT Alumni initiative, winner of Stanford BASES 2010 and recipient of the Echoing Green, Ashoka and
Draper Richards Kaplan Fellowships. Our academic board is chaired by Prof. Eric Mazur, Dean of Applied Physics at
Harvard.
In Chennai, since 2012, Avanti worked with about 800 class XI and XII students from Chennai Schools, in partnership
with Corporation of Chennai and Rotary Club of Madras East, helping them develop strong fundamentals in Mathematics
and Sciences. In 2015, Avanti would be spreading its work to 1000 more students of Grade IX to XII from 16 Chennai
Corporation Schools.
Overview of the Role The Curriculum Associate is fully responsible for preparing academic content for the specific subject either Maths
or Science for Grade IX to run unique Avanti pedagogy and conduct doubt solving sessions in different partnering
schools. The requirements & responsibilities are described below.
Requirements
Education: MSc, specialized in either of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or Biology
Experience: Minimum 2-3 years of experience in teaching highs school students in both Tamil and English Medium
Skills: Good grasp of high-school Mathematics/Science; high attention to detail; self-driven; empathic;
Interests: Passionate about education; enjoys mentoring and teaching teenagers
Roles and Responsibilities
1. Curriculum Design
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Create detailed lesson plans for teaching, recording concept video lectures
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Create problem sets to support content delivery through Avanti Pedagogy
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Own overall responsibility for the creation of curriculum for individual topic areas
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Create assessments and analyze students’ progression in their learning outcomes.
2. Revision and Doubt Solving
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Conducting Revision and Doubt Solving Sessions in different schools regularly
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Help students transition from the traditional lecture-based classroom model to our peer-to-peer learning model
Joining Date: April 1st week
Location: Chennai
No.of Openings: 2 for Maths and 2 for Sciences
Compensation: Rs 18,000 per month (negotiable based on experience and fit)
How to Apply: Fill the online application form on our website: http://avantifellows.org/work-with-us/ and
send your resume to jyothsna@avantifellows.org