Stephen Fry Announces Ranjitsinh Disale As A Top 10 Finalist | Global Teacher Prize 2020

Watch Stephen Fry announce Indian teacher Ranjitsinh Disale as a top ten finalist for The Global Teacher Prize 2020. Ten teachers in ten weeks. They each deserve their moment in the spotlight. Who’s next?

Now, more than ever, we must shine a light on the world’s teachers.

Primary school teacher Ranjitsinh Disale from Zilla Parishad Primary School, Paritewadi, Solapur, Maharashtra, was shortlisted for the Global Teacher Prize 2020, after being selected from over 12,000 nominations and applications from over 140 countries around the world.

When Ranjitsinh arrived at the Zilla Parishad Primary School in 2009 it was a dilapidated building, sandwiched between a cattle shed and a storeroom. Most of the girls were from tribal communities where school attendance could sometimes be as low as 2% and teenage marriage was common.

Ranjitsinh was determined to turn this around, moving to the village and going to great efforts to learn the local language. Ranjitsinh then not only translated the class textbooks into his pupils’ mother tongue but also embedded them with unique QR codes to give students access to audio poems, video lectures, stories and assignments.

The impact of Ranjitsinh’s interventions has been extraordinary: there are now no teenage marriages in the village and 100 per cent attendance by girls at the school. The school was also recently awarded the best school in the district with 85% of his students achieving A grades in annual exams. One girl from the village has now graduated from University, something seen as an impossible dream before Ranjitsinh arrived.

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