TEACH TO LEARN

The vibrant ‘Teach to Learn' team at IIT Madras aims to promote positive youth development using the mentoring approach. Our overarching goal is to provide mentoring to rural school students using well structured programs. A unique aspect of our programs is that: Mentoring is provided by the graduate and undergraduate students of premier Higher Education Institutions (HEI) like IIT Madras. Another important aspect is that these programs provide a platform for the mentors from HEI to develop social awareness and competencies that prepares them for the global market... Faculty and Graduate Students are connected to rural schools. They provide mentoring, training and guidance at various capacities. Over time, as a result of our implementations besides the development of a culture of mentoring, we believe that the country will see an increased number of skilled employable youth from all sections of the society... We build mentoring models using the peer-teaching peer-learning-mechanism...