Education4India is an educational consultancy company aimed at providing quality training for Indian teachers and appropriate resources for those schools that invite the team to help.   We try to go in twice a year for one month at a time – with an unwelcome break during Covid.  The team eagerly look forward to these trips - they are always exhilarating, exhausting, inspiring and a massive privilege.  If the school is large, the whole team works together.  With small schools, we divide in two smaller teams.  Either way, we usually arrive at a school on Monday, work flat out with training staff, mentoring, having meetings with the leaders and preparing targeted presentations.  We generally leave Friday evening or Saturday morning, depending on our next destination and spend the weekend recovering and regathering our energy for the following week. 

How this will work out in our new post-Covid world is unknown, but we are looking forward to picking up from where we left off.   

We keep in close touch with our schools when back in the UK / Australia through monthly requests for updates.  The team meet regularly on Zoom and we invite school leaders to join us on occasion.

In 2009, the Government of India passed the Right To Education Act, stating that learning must become interactive and child-centred; that classrooms should be busy, purposeful places; that praise and encouragement become the norm. This is our benchmark.  We try to encourage the teachers, give them opportunities to work through and discuss different ways of doing things, to offer praise and encouragement, to make suggestions where appropriate.  The whole process is exhilarating and rewarding for all concerned.