Ranjitsinh Disale of Maharashtra wins Global Teacher Prize for 2020
The Global Teacher Prize winner for 2020 was bagged by a primary school teacher from India named Ranjitsinh Disale, 32, helming from Paritewadi village in the Solapur district of Maharashtra. The winner of the coveted one million dollars annual recognition, Disale broke barriers putting in all the required efforts bolstering the education for girl child in India and triggering quick responses, which is a QR coded revolution brought for textbooks in India.
Emerging as a winner out of the 10 finalists for the Global Teacher Prize all across the world, where each standalone teacher is exceptional in their own ways having validated their contribution to the profession of teaching and being recognized for it, the Varkey Foundation started the annual awarding ceremony back in 2014 and acknowledges works of real time changemakers.
The announcement for the Global Teacher Prize for 2020 was held virtually, broadcasted live from the Natural Museum of History in London by the famous Stephen Fry, a British actor and broadcaster. The pandemic has so far pushed education system to the hilt and affecting in multitudes, but it is the sheer hard work of these very teachers of letting every student have access to good standards of education, which by all accords is a birth right no one should be deprived of, even if there are aplenty of challenges.
Disale made an announcement of sharing fifty percent of the coveted prize money with all the other finalists giving due credence to the substantial amount of work of each. Disale believes in giving and sharing and hence his contribution will be equal for the 9 other finalists who will be receiving fifty-five thousand dollars each. A gesture goes a long way especially if it can change the world and together, the better.
Disale did a turnaround for the Zilla Parishad Primary School in Paritewadi in Solapur where he first started teaching back in 2009, it was barely a school, dealing with space crunch, working somehow sandwiched in between a shed for cattles and a storage room.
Disale took it upon him of making textbooks available in the regional language and getting it translated to the student’s mother tongue for effective reach and embedded distinctive QR codes for accessing audio version of poems to videos for lectures and sessions of stories and assignments. His approach bore fruit with zero reports of teenage marriages and 100% attendance for girls of the school.
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News Source: NDTV
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