After getting the necessary permissions from the education board (government), schools are invited to participate in this one-day ‘Awareness Workshop’. Here, the Teachers (8th grade and 4th grade), Headmaster, School Board, Funding Agency, Project Team (coordinators, facilitators/trainers, field officer, staff) are made aware of the model concept, implementation process and the expected outcome. Input is sought from them regarding implementation feasibility.

‘C’ students and Mentor teachers are invited to participate in a training workshop. At the workshop: ‘C’ students are trained in Cognitive and Non-Cognitive skills; Mentor Teachers are trained to guide (Scheduling, Lesson Plan prep etc.) and motivate the ‘C’ students during the implementation. They are also given guidelines to maintain relevant documents (Logs for Preparation, Delivery and Feedback).

The act of, ‘C’ students teaching the ‘C minus 4’ students, is key in the implementation process. With the guidance of Mentor teacher and the training given, ‘C’ students prepare to teach the ‘C minus 4’students.

Monitoring an implementation is an important step in the process. A field officer from the project team visits the schools on a regular basis to guide the Mentor Teacher and foresee the implementation. During these visits, the field officer meets the Headmaster, ‘C minus 4’ teacher, Mentor Teacher as well as the ‘C’ students. He/she also collects feedback logs from the Mentor Teacher.

The data collected by the field officer is used to assess the effectiveness of implementation and the impact it created. The data also helps measure the progress and improvement in the ‘C’ students.

The ‘C minus 4’ implementations have been carried out in two states namely Tamilnadu and West Bengal. A total of 200, 8th grade students from rural government schools have been trained to become ‘C’ students.

The first step toward sustenance is to establish a mechanism to continue the implementation of the model over long duration. Training the Mentor Teachers to conduct students training programme is an effective way to increase the number of trained student-teachers year after year.

Success of the model in its true sense will be achieved when students from every remote corner of the country get an opportunity to develop knowledge, skills and confidence. This can be done in two ways:

• Guiding the Mentor Teachers to conduct training programmes for teachers and students from neighbouring schools - This will help spread the model and create more number of ‘Mentor Teachers and ‘C’ students.
• By sharing the model as a structured module with all elite institutions of the nation. The elite institutions acting as the champion institutes, will connect with the local schools creating a spoke and hub network all over the nation.

A virtual space (online) hosting the teaching videos of ‘C’ students will be created. In these videos, the ‘C’ students will teach academic subjects using the skills they acquired through the ‘C minus 4’ training and the experience they gained from teaching their junior students during the model implementation.