CBSE teacher’s awards goes online

CBSE sources here said in a significant departure from the earlier practice which was manual and conducted at a regional level, the new online application system is aimed at bringing transparency and objectivity into the entire assessment process.

The number of awards this year has increased by 14, from 34 to 48. There are five awards for principals and the rest for various subject teachers to motivate deserving primary, secondary and senior secondary teachers.

For the first time 10 awards out of the total 48 have been earmarked for performing arts, special educators, school counsellors, vocational subjects, physical education and it teachers also.

The board said that principals and teachers will be chosen through a rigorous processes based on the significant contributions, academic interest, reputation of a teacher in the community and commitment towards education.

The CBSE board has formed a National Level Screening Committee at the CBSE headquarters instead of regional committees that were formed earlier. This committee will select the principals and teachers on the basis of general criteria for all categories of awards, such as academic qualifications, scholarly contributions, functional research, curriculum, community and student development achievements, awards and honours.

Specific criteria, which will cover one’s effectiveness as a teacher, remedial teaching, contribution of the teacher thereof and Face to face interaction.

The selection will also be based on two video-graphed lessons of 30 minutes each of actual classroom teaching with lesson plans.

Top six awardees of the CBSE awards will be recommended by the National Level Screening Committee for the National Teacher Awards, presented by the MHRD. The selection criteria along with rubrics are available on the CBSE website, cbse.nic.in, for those who want to apply for the awards.