Sonali Gupta a teacher of Chinmaya Vidyalaya Bokaro was conferred with Global Teacher Accreditation Award. Talwar gets the award for her research on “Can meaningful activities help our socially challenged students to competent and enjoy their child rights in a better way”.
She gets the honour in a ceremony organised by British Council at Kempinski Ambience Hotel, New Delhi by Dr Angela Cook of Cambridge Foundation. Sonali Gupta is the second one (teacher) who got honoured from Bokaro.
The Global Teacher Accreditation (GTA) project is a unique opportunity to gain recognition for high-quality professional practice, grounded in peer development and reflection for serving teachers undertaking development activities, informed the school authority.
The British Council and Cambridge Education Foundation, work together to deliver the GTA programme, funded by the UK Aid, to promote a global dimension in the school curriculum through the development of innovative, equitable and sustainable school partnerships, he said adding “the accreditation aims to provide funded access to continuing professional development (CPD), that will enable the teachers to internalise their learning from their partnership work and improve teaching-learning experience as a result of introduction of global dimension within the curriculum”.
This year all total 102 teachers were selected for GTA award but only 62 were honoured with this award, informed the authority. The occasion was also graced by other distinguished educationist and reformers like Susan Douglas, Ruchira Ghosh, Nand Kumar including others.
Expressing their joy on account of her success the secretary of the school Mahesh Tripathi, principal Dr Ashok Singh and Swamini Sankutanand Sarshwati congratulated Sonali and felicitated with Gold Medal and Citation certificate,