Maharashtra teacher helping 'jungle batches' learn with loudspeakers, projectors and puppet shows to get national award

Maharashtra teacher Khurshid Sheikh who is helping 'jungle batches' from remote areas learn with loudspeakers, projectors and puppet shows is one of the recipients of the National Teachers Award 2021.

Forty-four teachers have been selected from across India for the National Teachers Award 2021 due to their unique contributions to the field of education and their drive to help students learn. Maharashtra teacher Khurshid Sheikh is one of them for doing his best to make learning fun and easy. Khurshid Sheikh,45,believes that a teacher's connection with his students should never be broken. When #COVID19 & the lack of connectivity in Gadchiroli's remotest hamlets threatened that, he took education to their homes by devising what he calls 'Jungle' batches. #SuperGuru pic.twitter.com/naQp2YbTJ7 Sheikh has given storytelling in education a new lease of life, especially in the Covid-19 lockdown which made schools shift to online education.