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Nilu Anandappa: Asia’s Outstanding Teacher of The Year 2020/2021

07 Feb 2021

[caption id="attachment_118456" align="alignright" width="297"] Nilu Anandappa with her students at NICE International School[/caption] Nilu Anandappa is a subject and class teacher at NICE International School, Negombo. Passionate about educating young minds, Anandappa has engaged in her lifelong passion of teaching with the utmost dedication and her efforts have now been recognised globally. In honour of her commitment towards her chosen profession, Anandappa has garnered a double achievement as “Asia’s Outstanding Teacher of The Year 2020/2021” and she is also the recipient of the Global Excellence Award – Asia Awards, powered by RULA International Awards. It is the original token of appreciation and recognition towards the act of excellency in various disciplines and representing Sri Lanka, Anandappa has been honoured with the highest of accolades.  About the process of applying for an international award and facing the many challenges that come with it, Anandappa shared with us that even though she had applied before to the Asia Awards, she missed out on the opportunity by the smallest of chances and this time around, competing with some of the most experience educators form 52 other countries, she said that she felt she was facing an enormous challenge, but she felt she was up for it regardless. “Most of those who were in the running for the award were experienced educators; some aged 60 and above with PhDs and varying other qualifications,” she said, and while this made her nervous, she said she wasn’t deterred. [caption id="attachment_118455" align="alignleft" width="305"] Nilu Anandappa with her awards[/caption] Anandappa said that this time around, the awards had to make a lot of new, more stringent adjustments to their selection process due to Covid-19 limitations, which resulted in the process being far more demanding than it would have otherwise been. However, she said that while things were a little more difficult, her victory feels that much better because of it. We asked the 32-year-old teacher about what this type of recognition and appreciation of her work means to her and how she hopes to carry that forward in her career. In response, she said that more than the pride she feels and the opportunities it may bring her, the most important thing is what she learned in the process of achieving these accolades. Anandappa said that one of the primary reasons she chose to apply for the awards was because she is keen on putting herself through challenges where she would come out of it more knowledgeable, and she said that in competing with people who brought with them different experiences, it proved to be a wealth of knowledge for her and she hopes to incorporate all that she has learned in her work moving forward. She said that teaching is her passion, and that there is an unfortunate misconception about teaching, particularly about those who teach primary grades, many assuming it to be easy. Anandappa is a class teacher for Year 2, and is a subject teacher for the upper primary, teaching maths, geography, and history to kids from Years 3 to 5 and she conducts an after-school activity in mental maths for those from Years 1to 5. She said that teaching young children is a grave responsibility as that is the foundation to all the other learning they will do in their lives. Anandappa shared that when a child is molded properly at this crucial age, they can go on to do great things, but we must help them get on track. Considering her achievements, Anandappa shared with us that she is not done yet and shared that her hope for the future is to open a school to help children with learning difficulties, adding that in Sri Lanka there is a need to address such children as they often tend to get cornered in society and we must allow them the opportunity to reach their true potential.  

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