Three pathbreakers in training in Kerala bag National Teacher’s award

Express News Service

KOCHI: Despite enormous potential, training in India has been averse to vary. Though large funding was made in exploring digital know-how to rework instructional practices, not a lot effort has been made to carry qualitative change in training.

Three academics from Kerala, who tread the street not taken, tried to carry innovation to reinforce the training expertise and turned change brokers have been chosen for the National Teacher’s award.

SL Faisal, a librarian at Kendriya Vidyalaya at Pattom in Thiruvananthapuram was chosen for the coveted award for redesigning the idea of the varsity library to help modern studying and assist college students purchase expertise. Prasad M Bhaskaran, a trainer on the authorities LP college at Varavoor in Thrissur district used his college students as brokers of change to encourage the village group to return to agrarian life. 

Mathew Okay Thomas, a social science trainer on the Sainik School at Kazhakoottam in Thiruvananthapuram, took his college students on a cycle expedition throughout the state for cultural integration and assist them socialise with their friends.

Faisal S LA first rank holder in MLISc, Faisal SL joined the Kendriya Vidyalaya at Baramulla in Jammu and Kashmir as a librarian in 2003. With a imaginative and prescient to assist college students purchase information by partaking with library assets. He remodeled the varsity library right into a studying house making studying extra versatile and produce a constructive affect on pupil achievement. He was transferred to Pattom Kendriya Vidyalaya in 2007.

Faisal was the primary one within the nation to launch a college library weblog in 2007. He developed a web-based educational social community, ‘Library Junction’ in 2010 to help collaborative studying and information sharing in a moderated and secure setting  An ‘E-Reading Hub’ with 10 e-readers was established within the library in 2014 to advertise e-reading. Faisal additionally developed a web-based library junction in 2010 and opened a digital library and an audio library in 2020.

The newest innovation was a library on smartphones launched in 2021. Faisal had launched the ‘Gift a Book’ and ‘Get a Friend’ programme in 2013 as an try and create social accountability among the many college students, As a part of the programme, college students of KV Pattom visited authorities faculties in Thiruvananthapuram district, socialised with college students hailing from marginalised sections of society and gifted books to them. The motion has coated 7 faculties until 2021 and has gifted 4000 books.

Faisal was chosen for the National ICT Award for Teachers in 2017. The ICT interventions carried out by him made the varsity win the KVS-Intel Integration of Technology in Schools Award. The ICT venture, ‘Library Junction’ gained two National Awards by NCERT and KVS for Innovative Practices and Experiments in 2011. He was honoured with the IASL International Excellence Award for School Librarianship in2012.

Prasad M Bhaskaran

As headmaster of Government LP School at Varavoor panchayat in Thrissur district, Prasad M Bhaskaran created consciousness among the many youngsters to return to nature which impressed the village group to modify to natural farming. His social intervention earned the belief of the native residents and the coed power within the college rose steeply from 385 in 2017-18 to 895 in 2020-21.

Under his steering academics and college students cultivated paddy, banana, and greens on the varsity compound which was later prolonged to barren land leased by PTA members. Many college students, with the assistance of their mother and father, began rising greens on the sidewalk of their properties. seeds for cultivation had been offered by the varsity.

He established a biodiversity park, a fish pond, zoo, and medicinal plant backyard by availing a Rs 7 lakh mortgage from the financial institution. This impressed the villagers to reside in concord with nature.

Prasad shaped 25 golf equipment within the college together with the English membership, science membership, hygiene membership, seed membership, anti-drug membership, biodiversity membership, and palliative care membership. A crew from Russia had visited the varsity to check the extracurricular actions and modern studying strategies. The college with the contribution of fogeys and academics constructed properties for the poor and an establishment for the blind. The college supplies coaching in martial arts, yoga, and conventional artwork kinds.

Mathew Okay Thomas

A local of Payyannur in Kannur district, Mathew Okay Thomas joined the Sainik School in 1995. An academician and a sportsperson, 1,150 cadets educated by him have joined officer cader of Armed forces. As many as 8 cadets educated by him had been chosen underneath the youth alternate programme to go to international international locations. He led a 630 km cycle expedition from Thiruvananthapuram to Kasaragod to socialize the cadets in 2000 Under his teaching the varsity basketball crew gained the south zone championship twice. He established a steady and equestrian space the place 200 cadets realized horse using in 3 years. He had led a crew of 150 cadets and 4 academics for the show of a cultural pageant as a part of the Republic Day parade in 1997. Mathew organises motivation lessons at native faculties to encourage children to affix the armed forces.