Commonwealth Awards tally of Jaipur based educator Dr Kishore rises to four since 2018

Jaipur based educator-researcher Dr Lalit Kishore who has been associated with projects related to alternative and special education, has won Commonwealth Awards for the years 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. The inset headline clipping from https://lalitkishore5.rssing.com/chan-62580514/all_p145.html talks about two awards since 2018, however , by 2021, the tally has risen to four consecutive awards.

The organizers say, “The award scheme is run by the Commonwealth Association of Science, Technology and Mathematics Educators, an organisation established in 1974 with an aim of sharing best practice across the STEM disciplines and to demonstrate the importance of STEM to local environments, schools and communities. Awards are offered for educational projects, which address the social or human context of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Any group or individual involved in any form of education in the widest senses, formal or informal, within societies can enter including pre-school, Primary or Secondary. Additionally, Tertiary education projects can be entered from school, college, university or from communities.”

The descriptive award winning titles for the innovative STEM education projects of Dr Inshore are as follows.

2021: Designing and developing teacher handbook for science experiences at remote small rural primary schools through use of mini-tools kit: essentiality of contextualisation and teacher empowerment (Dr Lalit Kishore, Senior Fellow, CULP, Jaipur)

2020: Middle School Science to Spin, Swirl and Sway for Self-Development of Science Educator as Action Researcher and Learner-Teacher (Dr Lalit Inshore; Disha Foundation, Nirman Nagar, Jaipur, India)

2019: Adjusting science instruction to needs of children with specific learning disabilities: designing and clinical trialling of select lessons for standardisation of visual support material (Dr Lalit Kishore, Research Fellow, Disha- A Resource Centre for Multiple Disabilities)

2018: Training Primary Teachers to Become Math Language Literates: Development and Tryout of Training Material to Connect Exact Science of Math to Soft Science of Linguistics(Dr Lalit Kishore, Research Fellow, Disha- A Resource Centre for Multiple Disabilities, Jaipur, Rajasthan- 302019)