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A primary school teacher from Solapur district of Maharashtra – Ranjitsinh Disale – who redesigned textbooks for Kannada students, has won the Global Teacher Prize. Disale (32) works with the Zilla Parishad Primary School at Paritewadi in Madha in Solapur district. One of the major aspects of the award is that it reposes faith in education in government’s schools, he said, adding that he had been teaching for nearly a decade.
History
The first annual Global Teacher Prize was awarded in March 2015 to Nancie Atwell, an innovative and pioneering English teacher and teacher trainer in rural Maine in the United States, who founded and runs a school where students read an average of 40 books a year, choose which books they read, and write prolifically.Atwell has authored nine books on teaching, including one which has sold more than half a million copies.She donated her $1 million prize to the upkeep, development, and scholarships of her school, the nonprofit Center for Teaching and Learning, which is also a demonstration school for developing and disseminating teaching methods.
About Global Teacher Prize
- The Global Teacher Prize is an annual award given away by the Varkey Foundation, in partnership with UNESCO, to a teacher who has made an outstanding contribution to the profession.
- The award carries a purse of US $1 million (Rs 7.37 crore). Disale has decided to share half the prize money with the nine other finalists.
- This is the first time in the Global Teacher Prize’s six-year history that the overall winner has shared the prize money with other finalists.
- Disale initially wanted to be an IT engineer, but after engineering college did not work out as he anticipated, his father suggested teacher training as an alternative.
- Disale enrolled himself in a teachers’ training college after he gave up on engineering dreams. He saw that teachers are the real change-makers in the world, and decided to become one.
- Disale learned Kannada and redesigned all the textbooks of Grades 1 to 4 for better comprehension, along with unique QR codes that embedded audio poems, video lectures, stories and assignments in Kannada.
- The central government had named Disale as Innovative Researcher of the Year 2016. He also won the National Innovation Foundation’s Innovator of the Year award in 2018.
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