Global Awards for Virtual Learning & Planning 2021

COAE ‘Global Awards’ is our way of empowering teachers to realize their potential in creating meaningful and enjoyable learning experiences for their students.

The recent global calamity tested the ability of our educators to adapt, transform, learn to unlearn and relearn. They sailed through these times smoothly without any prior exposure to the technological challenges that they faced.

In recognition of their invaluable contribution in keeping the wheels of our educational system running and serving the needs of the students in their care, COAE announces these awards for the nation builders, OUR EDUCATORS. They are the ones who without any hesitation and without any formal prior exposure accepted, adapted and implemented all that was required of them to ensure that their learners kept abreast, moved ahead, benefitted and grew academically, socially, emotionally, intellectually and digitally.

Virtual Teaching- Challenges faced by teachers

• Huge amount of planning
• Several tech hiccups at each end
• Large variety of tools
• Lack of preparation
• Stress of being watched

Teachers around the globe faced these challenges and developed a new self-confidence, enhanced creativity, innovative mind-set, comfort with technology and the pleasure of being updated with 21st century skills to a large extent. Lesson plans prepared by our teachers during the virtual teaching and learning period have proved this.

With our teachers ongoing contribution in mind, COAE International has always been dedicated and committed to encourage them to continue their beautiful journey and keep creating value for the learners.

“Creativity and innovation, at both the individual and group levels, have become the true wealth of nations in the 21st century”

The United Nations designated 21st April as World Creativity and Innovation Day to raise the awareness of the role of creativity and innovation in all aspects of human development.

In 2021, we at COAE would celebrate this day with the teachers from across the world by

• Giving them an opportunity to showcase their creative and innovative teaching plans that they have developed to offer the best to their students.
• Giving them a platform to get their teaching plans evaluated by experts and get feedback too.
• Recognizing the efforts of our teachers on this special occasion.
• Welcoming the teachers to celebrate, congratulate and co share some best practices that surfaced during the online teaching over the last academic year.
• Enhancing the teaching learning process through healthy and enriching interactions and exchange of ideas

At COAE we are conscious of the fact that the new academic session will be one of its kind, never ever heard of , hence it is pertinent to bring on board the new, valuable ideas, strategies, practices that may serve as valuable reference for all educators across the diaspora. The sole purpose is to harness excellence.

Participants from across the world can share their best teaching practice delivered online in any one of the core subjects English, Hindi/Sanskrit/French (Or Any Other Language), Mathematics, Science, Social Science (EVS).

• Fundamental Years – Kindergarten
• Primary Grades - I to V
• Middle Grades - VI to VIII

• After registration, the candidates will receive an email with the link to submit their lesson plans as per the given format.
• Duly completed lesson plans will be uploaded on the link by each registered candidate before 27/03/2021.
• COAE experts will review & evaluate each lesson plan.
• Candidates will be shortlisted as per the evaluation criteria.
• Shortlisted candidates will be informed by COAE before 08/04/2021.
• The shortlisted candidates will have an interaction with expert from COAE. This will be held between 09/04/2021 to 14/04/2021.
• The awardees will be informed of the result by - 17/04/2021.
• The awardees will be given an opportunity for a virtual walkthrough of their shared learning practice on 21/04/2021 - the day of the award distribution (duration 3-4 mins each) and a collective feedback will be provided by the panel.
• Each participant will be awarded a certificate of participation and an opportunity to avail future training programs conducted by COAE at a discounted fee.
• Winner from each category will be awarded special prizes.

NOTE:

• Decisions taken by the COAE panel members will be final.
• Applicable registration fee: INR 218 (INR 185 + 18% GST) for participant residing in Indian and USD 5 for participant residing out side India.

• Demonstration of learner-centred learning
• Effectiveness of learning outcomes
• Innovative use of resources/ tools
• Adequacy of teaching pedagogies
• Appropriateness of assessment methods
• Understanding of differentiated learners
• Effectiveness of assessment strategies/ learning experience
• Teachers self-reflection of lesson

• Last date for lesson plan submission- 27/03/2021
• Shortlisted candidates will be informed by - 08/04/2021
• Interaction with shortlisted candidates- 09/04/2021 to 14/04/2021
• The awardees will be informed of the result by 17/04/2021
• Award distribution (online event)- 21/04/2021