Teaching is a unique profession – even as they teach, teachers remain students for their lives. Not surprisingly, many teachers learn from their interactions with students. Every child’s pursuit for academic excellence can be a unique learning experience for a teacher.

At this juncture where India has been showcasing its biggest asset as its young dynamic human resource, FIT is an initiative to help India in becoming an innovative and creative society and a global leader in school education.

The primary objectives of FIT are:

To help India become an innovative and creative society and a global leader in school education.

To act as a brainstorming-house for ideas and information matters relating to student learning.

To develop and/or to disseminate improved educational techniques and practices in schools to enhance student learning.

To ensure evolution and diffusion of innovative practices in education in a selective, time-bound and mission oriented basis.

To undertake, aid, promote and coordinate research in all areas related to student learning.

Mode of Operation

1. Launch of FORUM FOR TEACHERS on www.butterflyfields.com/forum/login.php

2. Visit to the Member Schools – Once every month

We at Butterfly Fields believe that the onus of taking our education system to the next level lies with teachers. To revolutionize our education system, teachers must first dare to go beyond conventional methods of teaching and try innovative methods of reaching out to students.

For teachers who are willing to join us in our endeavor, we are willing to help in every possible manner to make this dream come true

Intiatives

Here are some of our initiatives which aim at promoting hands on teaching and help teachers make their classes more exciting & meaningful:
• Training programs for teachers
• Curriculum based content development
• Training material and teaching aids
• Partnering with schools in their research activities

About the Program

We are launching a Forum for Innovative Teachers in an event on Sep 5, Teachers' Day. We envisage this to be step towards making learning easy, enriching and enjoyable for students. We are also releasing a book on Concept Maps during this event. The schedule is at the bottom of this document.

We expect participation of about 100 people, including city CBSE school teachers, principals, and others interested in this topic. We are having a panel discussion of 30 mins with members from diverse backgrounds (Mr. Sanjay Upendram (Director Deloitte, Consulting), Ms. Amala Akkineni (Actress, Social Activist), Mr. Chandrashekar (Educationist) Mr. Navin Mittal (District Collector, Hyderabad) where they present their views and perspective on learning.

Program Schedule:

Friday Sep 5, 2008 @ Katriya de Royale, Begumpet

Brief Introduction
4:30– 4:35 PM

Invocation of Goddess Saraswati
4:35 – 4:40 PM

Panel Discussion by an eminent Panel on Innovative Practices in Teaching
4:40 – 5:10 PM

Presentation on Innovative Teaching – Butterfly Fields
5:10 – 5:30 PM

Release of Concept Maps
5:30 – 5:45 PM

Keynote address
5:45 – 6:00 PM

Vote of Thanks
6:00 – 6:05 PM

Informal Interaction over High Tea
6:05 – 6:30 PM