Air-India in collaboration with Sikkim Express, has instituted awards to recognise excellence and to promote the concept of, ‘towards responsible and active citizenship’. These awards are for students and teachers of Sikkim.
The Race for Awareness and Knowledge (Rank) award is for students, while the Broad Outlook Learner Teacher (Bolt) award is for teachers.
Two persons, a teacher and a student from each state, will be selected for the awards, which is a part of the reaching-out project of Air-India.Seeking to recognise excellence outside the field of academics, the selectors are looking for the following among teachers:
The teaching tools used on a day-to-day basis to excite their students to look beyond the covers of their textbooks, their pursuit of excellence at the personal and professional levels, their most fulfilling experience as a teacher, how they make teaching fun, whether they live by example, etc.
The award will also consider how the teachers invest in first impressions, how they increase the depth of their specialised knowledge, how they work to continuously broaden the breadth of their knowledge.
In students the selectors are looking for:
An insight into the teachers’ value systems, their ability to step outside the routine and look for what is unique and different in the world.
The officers of AIR INDIA and the judges for Sikkim has started selection process from about 100 and above students who have taken part in the award competition for this year in Gangtok. Those who wins the awards will be given free trip to them to Singapore or any country of the choice of AIR INDIA.
