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Mumbai: Global Teacher Price-2020 winner Ranjitsinh Disale has been appointed as an Advisor to the World Bank.
Talking to reporter, Disale said he had been working with the World Bank and had given speeches on the topics such as “Future of the Government” and “Supporting Teachers in the Age of Pandemic”.
The World Bank has appointed 12 advisors from the world over and Disale is one of them representing India.
World Bank has recently launched the Global Coach Program, a new initiative focused on accelerating learning by helping countries improve in-service Teacher Professional Development (TPD) programs and systems. This program forms part of the World Bank’s broader agenda to tackle the global learning crisis (WDR, 2018).
The coach focuses on supporting countries to improve in-service TPD through a two-pronged approach.
The Coach program focuses on helping countries transform their TPD programs and policies to ones that adhere to a set of four key principles that are linked to improved teaching quality.
Disale’s work through the Advisory Board will impact the work World Bank do on the ground, currently supporting over 18 million teachers around the world.
He will be an advisor to the World Bank till December 2024.
