5 teachers from Northeast conferred national honours on the occasion of Teachers' Day

UNIQUE TEACHING METHODOLOGIES

GUWAHATI: On the occasion of Teachers' Day, five teachers from the north-eastern region of the country were conferred the 'National Teachers Awards' for developing innovative teaching techniques among students to accelerate their learning experience.

The awardees are Goutam Dev Sarma from Assam; Rahul Sankar Chatterjee from Meghalaya; Archana Gurung and Lomas Dhungel — both from Sikkim; and Sanjay Das from Tripura. President of India Ram Nath Kovind virtually presented the awards to the teachers on Saturday.

The National Teachers Awards celebrate and honour the contribution of the finest teachers of the country. A total of 47 teachers were named as the recipients for this year's awards.

Goutam Dev Sarma teaches at the Government HS And MP School in Kokrajhar district of Assam. He teaches Mathematics and Science subjects; and he has been credited for making these subjects easier to learn. His work is seen as an inspiration. Beating all the challenges, including physical danger due to a challenging socio-political context in the area, he has set up a science laboratory and developed low-cost tools with the aid of a grant from a Central government scientific department for the students. Sarma has also innovated multilingual teaching methods as his students are from at least three different language backgrounds. His personal rapport with the local community has ensured a higher enrolment and participation in the school. It has further helped in making science popular through fairs and projects.

Rahul Sankar Chatterjee is a Lecturer from Meghalaya. He teaches at the Shillong Jail Road Boys Higher Secondary School. He is known as an extremely creative Physics teacher. Chatterjee has also introduced a set of innovative methodologies to teach Physics that have helped students hone their Physics knowledge. These methodologies have also been disseminated elsewhere through various teacher-training modules. Apart from re-equipping the school laboratory, developing new experiments and quizzes, he has also designed concept-based videos for the students pursuing Physics.

Lomas Dhungel has introduced poetry, storytelling and art to teach geometry, algebra and mathematical concepts. He teaches at the Government Senior Secondary School Makha in East Sikkim. Apart from his novel methods, he also has an understanding of nature in the teaching of Maths through stability and symmetry. His activities are considered extremely child-friendly, due to which, his students have also shown improvement in their acquiring skills.

Archana Gurung, Principal of Government Senior Secondary School Jorethang, Daragaon, Sikkim, has been making efforts to turn her school into a safe and joyful place for students. She has brought in innumerable confidence-building exercises for the students and has worked hard with the community to upgrade the school's infrastructure. She also introduced Zumba dance and a school band to engage the children while at the same time introducing a system of attendance five times a day to bring down truancy in the school.

Sanjay Das, Assistant Headmaster of Tilabazar HS School in Tripura is an active and enthusiastic teacher of Science and Mathematics. He has innovated interesting hands-on and ICT-based pedagogies for the teaching of Science and Mathematics to his students and has successfully enhanced their interest as well as learning outcomes in these subjects. His good rapport with the local community and para—military organisations deployed in the area, aided in mobilising resource support for the school in terms of a midday meal dining hall, joint benches/furniture and computers for the school. (PIB) 

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