Toppr Hiring for at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India Full Time

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Toppr is looking for Creative Teachers in its Knowledge Team. As a Creative, you’ll deliver high quality lessons and self-learning materials in various formats such as video lectures, concept notes, assessments, etc. You’ll play a key role in bringing innovation and creativity in an approach to make learning and teaching simple.So, if you are student-centric and driven to change the way we look at education, then we’d love to talk to you!

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT:

Work with the best: Learn from leaders who have built Toppr from the ground up. Work with down-to-earth, highly experienced, and insanely ambitious colleagues.

High-growth industry: India’s online education industry is an ever-expanding pie and is poised to grow to $2 billion in 3 years.

High-growth startup: Over the last 3 years, Toppr has grown over 50x, and we aim to grab a big chunk of this ever-expanding pie.

As the business grows you grow: We want Toppr to be built from within. We look at you as someone with the potential to make Toppr a $10B company.

Complete ownership: Have the freedom to design and manage a process for content development. Be responsible for understanding students’ needs and create high quality content to meet their students.

Key Qualifications

PhD/Masters/Bachelors in respective subjects or Engineering / Medical / relevant degree with strong subject knowledge.

Pedagogy expert in either of one of the subjects. Ability to explain complex concepts in simple ways.

To be successful in this role, you’ll need to have the following skills:

Collaboration: Liaise with all teams to create and publish high-quality learning content.

Humility: An approachable individual who is able to form strong and long-lasting relationships.

Motivation: Ability to work under tight deadlines. Demonstrate a positive, ‘can-do’ attitude.

Data-driven: Keen interest in evaluating product/market situations, analyzing raw data, and transforming it into actionable strategies.

Traits

Ability to step outside “traditional” teaching practices is the most important trait for a creative teacher.

Organize the course material in a cognitively advantageous manner.

Possess the ability to highlight the relationships between different concepts and link them.

Use of real-life examples and imaginative stories for a better explanation of concepts in an interesting and easy way.

Ability to give several examples for a single topic.

Representation of topics in a pictorial form/incorporation of mind maps/ diagrams.

The approach in teaching should be in such a way that doubts arising in the minds of students get addressed.

Should tend to focus on fixing problems/doubts of students.

Focus on finding creative ways to integrate authentic learning into test paper preparation.

Last but not the least, the teachers should always be seeking and exploring new ideas, information and always strive to improve themselves. Task Guidelines for making a teaching video

Start the lecture with a warm welcome to students

Expectation of the session should be set in the beginning.

Be energetic throughout the lecture.

Maintain interaction with students throughout the lecture.

Engage with students by asking various questions, stories, and real life examples.

Teacher should be cheerful.

Incorporate humor at certain intervals.

Use hand gestures and appropriate body language. Guidelines for Script

Explain a concept using a real life situation/story telling

Write the script in a detailed manner so that the animation team can work on it

You can use text,image,gif,draw etc, to make the script more appealing

Be as creative as possible in storytelling

Sample Script and related video link:

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Script