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India born teacher gets US
honour
WSN Network
PATIALA:
Twentynine-year-old Samina Khan, a science teacher at
Michele
Clarke Academy Preparatory Magnet School, Chicago, has been awarded
the Golden Apple Foundation Award for excellence in teaching. Samina
hails from Malerkotla, near Patiala, and teaches African-American
students of Classes VI to VIII. Daughter of Malerkotla-based
educationist Prof MH Khan, who retired as a professor of education
at PPS Nabha, Samina is glad that she has done her parents and the
country proud. The award, one of the highest
US
honours in education, is given to educators of various schools
across America.
It is for the first time in 22 years -ever since its
inception- that the honour has been bestowed upon an Indian. Samina
is in India to visit her parents. She is planning to visit a few
schools here to learn a bit more about the Indian system of
education.
On being
questioned about her reaction on receiving this award, she said it
was like a dream come true. It was an exhilarating moment for Samina
Khan when a group of 100 persons, including her ex-principals,
students and colleagues, entered her classroom in Chicago and
announced that she had won the coveted Golden Apple Foundation Award
for excellence in teaching. “I could not believe it at all.
Though I
have been confident of my teaching methods and the way it involved
kids but getting Golden Apple was far from mind. I don’t have words
for the feelings I had when I received the award. I wore a
traditional lehnga for the award function that caught everyone’s
fancy.”
18 February 2009
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