Teaching professionals’ Olympiad

Oxford University Press India has partnered with the Centre for Teacher Accreditation (CENTA) for the Teaching Professionals’ Olympiad (TPO) — a first-of-its-kind national competition to reward, recognise and celebrate teachers. TPO 2017 will be held in 14 subject tracks and four languages (English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu), across 28 cities in India and one centre in Dubai on December 9, 2017. Designed as a two-hour multiple-choice objective test, the TPO focuses on subject pedagogy, classroom practices, logical ability and communication skills of teachers. It also offers a unique challenger track which is an additional test for in-depth subject expertise aimed to identify teachers with great conceptual depth of the subject.

Oxford University Press (OUP), the world’s largest university press, will sponsor the top two winners of the English Challenger track for a two-week Oxford English Language Teachers’ Academy Masterclass at the University of Oxford, UK. The 3rd to 6th rank holders in the English Challenger track will be sponsored for the Oxford Teachers’ Academy online training programme in partnership with the University of Oxford; and rank holders 7th to 16th will receive sponsorship for OUP’s Online Teacher Training Programme.         

In addition to the training opportunities sponsored by Oxford University Press, winners of TPO 2017 can look forward to a wide range of rewards from other organisations: 17 winners will attend the Global Education and Skills Forum in Dubai. Winners will also get a unique opportunity to co-author a book to be published by Central Square Foundation. Schools and BEd colleges/teacher education institutions with the maximum number of winners will also get Dell desktop PCs. 50 winners will receive ‘social impact awards’ from Michael & Susan Dell Foundation and 800 winners will get ‘TPO Certificates’ from CENTA. Every participant will receive a detailed confidential performance report.

Registrations are ongoing and will close on October 31. Check out: http://tpo-india.org/

Executive education programme

The School of Policy and Governance  conducted the first series of executive programmes in Delhi last week. The two-day executive education programme was launched in partnership with the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney. The School of Policy and Governance aims to create and prepare leaders in the developing world to solve policy and governance challenges.

The sessions saw highly acclaimed practitioners from India and around the world share their expertise on the most effective tools to further online engagement. Experts include Matthew Ipcar, Former Design Director for Obama-Biden Presidential Team and presently Executive Creative Director at Blue State Digital, Preethi Herman, Head, Change.org Foundation, India; Richard Mills, Former Head of Corporate Communications, World Bank and presently Director of Communications and Advocacy at the George Institute for Global Health, Australia, among others.