Toppr
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:
● Link
● Script
