News Desk, News Nation 360 : The philanthropic arm of Bharti Enterprises, the Bharti Airtel Foundation, unveiled TheTeacherApp, a cutting-edge digital platform that aims to transform Indian education by giving teachers the skills they need to meet the needs of classrooms in the twenty-first century. At a premiere event at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi, Union Minister of Education, Government of India, Dharmendra Pradhan, unveiled the platform. Along with school principals, teachers, B.Ed. students, and other education-related luminaries, Rakesh Bharti Mittal, Vice Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, and Mamta Saikia, CEO of the Bharti Airtel Foundation, were also in attendance. Bharti Airtel Foundation has launched TheTeacherApp, a digital platform free to use, designed to empower teachers with innovative resources and skills. The user-centric app is available on the web, iOS, and Android and offers over 260 hours of high-quality content, including courses, learning bytes, videos, podcasts, and interactive sessions. The platform also includes Teaching Kits with 900+ hours of resources like teaching videos, project-based learning activities, worksheets, lesson plans, and question banks. The app will help transform schools into safe and happy learning spaces with practical classroom strategies and a community of teachers. It is, in fact, very much in line with the National Education Policy that engages teachers in becoming future-ready educators as needs for education change. It was addressed by Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, "using technology in the process of continuous capacity building for teachers and aligning it with the vision of NEP 2020". According to Dharmendra Pradhan, this app will significantly increase our teachers' capacity through ongoing capacity building using cutting-edge technology, community-building elements, and course content. He claimed that in the spirit of NEP 2020, the government is placing an unprecedented emphasis on teachers' ongoing capacity building because they are the true Karmayogis forming the next generation. He went on to say that they are using innovation and technology to empower our instructors. Kids who have enlightened teachers are also enlightened. Teachers will be crucial in identifying prospects and making sure their young people drive the growth narrative as India advances in the knowledge-driven twenty-first century.
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