XSEED launches Tapp for teachers across India

Hyderabad: In a conference hall packed with school leaders, XSEED Education, India’s most innovative elementary education company, launched two exciting new ‘first ever” products for schools and teachers on Thursday. “Tapp”, a teacher’s professional development app to measure and improve teacher’s skills, and Xseed Future, India’s first bilingual program to help teachers in aspiring English medium schools.

Tapp, an easy to use mobile app, assesses the effectiveness of a class on seven principles of good teaching. Deploying XSEED’s well researched blue-scale methodology, it helps assess if the class was purposeful & experiential, children spoke, read, and understood, and proper use of workbook, notebooks, and assessments were made. Anyone can use the app and a single session takes just 8 minutes and the teacher gets her own confidential report.

Xseed Future is the first-ever bilingual teacher instruction program, complete with lesson plans, teacher training, text books, and assessment. Designed using the proven 5-Step learning method of XSEED, it is a simple and cost effective program targeted at aspiring state board schools across the country to build communication skills and problem solving confidence in children.

XSEED School of Tomorrow, India’s largest school conference was also held in Hyderabad on Thursday with the theme ‘Education Technology to Deliver Results in your School’. The focus of the conference was to establish the critical missing link between the learning process and technology in the classroom.

Speaking at the session, Amala Akkineni, founder of Blue Cross in Hyderabad said "In today's competitive and dynamic market place, the need is to prepare for an educated workforce of thinkers and problem solvers. Developing the ability to think has to be the key goal of the school curriculum. They have to focus on vocational skills and become more employability oriented."

AmalaAkkineni is an award winning actress, dancer and animal rights activist. Delivering the annual XSEED address, Ashish Rajpal, founder of XSEED, said, “Our goal is to educate unafraid children with skills and confidence to face life. For that, they need to solve real-world problems at their own pace; and not just memorize content.Technology can be real enabler.

However we need to first fix the learning process and then choose the right technology to amplify its impact.” Delivering the international keynote, Dr Wesley Fryer, a U.S based education technology specialist and Author of Mapping Media to Curriculum noted, “Children need to play with digital media on their own to become effective communicators and to make sense of a progressively complex world in which they live and work.”

Attended by over 400 school leaders from across the country, the half-day session saw some provocative points of views and pragmatic solutions to make sure that technology can actually work in improving education in India.