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Video grab of award-winning teachers with Buckingham University’s David Longfield
dation, Delhi; Prof. Geeta Gandhi Kingdon, professor, partner initiatives. Thus
University College, London; and Vikas Pota, founder, T4 we discover and felicitate
Education, UK, announced TPO 2020 winners in 16 sub- outstanding teachers in
jects. India and abroad, and
Moreover Summiya Yasmeen, co-founder and man- through them, celebrate
aging editor of EducationWorld, announced the Top 10 the profession. Moreover,
schools/organisations with the largest number of winners. schools with the largest
Centa TPO 2020, which in effect awarded and celebrated number of teachers in
the country’s best teachers, was supported by the Reliance the Top 1,000 are also ac-
Foundation, EducationWorld, Oxford University Press, knowledged and awarded
University of Buckingham, Tech Mahindra, Central Square for their teacher recruit-
Foundation, T4 Education and Lenovo. ment, training and de-
“Centa was promoted seven years ago to transform velopment capabilities,”
teaching into an aspirational profession by testing and explains Ramya Venka-
certifying teachers’ competencies to support their profes- traman, founder-CEO of
sional development and career progression. Simultaneous- Centa, the country’s sole, Ramya Venkatraman
ly, Centa enables schools and organisations to distinguish independent teacher test-
themselves based on the quality of their teachers. One of ing and certification company which has acquired an inter-
our flagship initiatives is the annual Centa TPO — launched national reputation for rigorous teacher evaluation and de-
in 2015 — which rigorously tests teachers competencies in velopment within a mere seven years since it was promoted.
a competitive international Olympiad, available in 16 sub- A highly qualified alumna of IIT-Delhi and IIM-Calcutta
jects. . Teachers who score beyond the minimum threshold and formerly with the blue-chip transnational consultancy
— approximately 2,000 this year — are awarded badges firm McKinsey & Co for 15 years including five as education
and become Centa certified teachers. The Top 1,000 are practice leader, Venkatraman resigned from McKinsey in
awarded ranks and certificates with the Top 200 also re- 2014 to launch Centa to improve the quality of teachers by
ceiving cash prizes ranging from Rs.5,000-100,000 under “inspiring and incentivising this community to learn con-
the Reliance Foundation Teacher Awards among other tinuously”.
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