{"id":60027,"date":"2026-09-19T14:40:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialtelegraph.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/19\/am-ns-international-schools-geography-teacher-among-top-5-national-finalists-in-indias-best-teachers-awards-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T14:40:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:10:30","slug":"am-ns-international-schools-geography-teacher-among-top-5-national-finalists-in-indias-best-teachers-awards-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialtelegraph.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/19\/am-ns-international-schools-geography-teacher-among-top-5-national-finalists-in-indias-best-teachers-awards-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"AM\/NS International School\u2019s Geography Teacher Among Top 5 National Finalists in India\u2019s Best Teachers\u2019 Awards 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/financialtelegraph.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PNN-2026-09-19T140613119.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"AM\/NS - PNN\" decoding=\"async\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hazira\/Surat (Gujarat) [India], September 19:  Somnath Mukherjee, PGT \u2013 Geography from AM\/NS<\/strong> <strong>International School<\/strong> was selected among the <strong>Top 5 national finalists in the Geography category<\/strong> at the inaugural <strong>India\u2019s Best Teachers\u2019 Awards 2026<\/strong>, jointly presented by the <strong>Shiv Nadar Foundation and Sa\u00efd Business School, University of Oxford<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The awards recognise educators of <strong>Grades 9\u201312<\/strong> for innovative pedagogy and impactful classroom practice. From over <strong>10,000 registrations across 32 States and Union Territories<\/strong>, 79 educators progressed to the national finalist stage. Somnath Mukherjee was the <strong>only teacher from Surat city among the five Geography finalists.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His pedagogical portfolio included <strong>field-based learning through the Tapi Estuary, Hazira industrial corridor, and mobile GIS cartography<\/strong>, which led to an invitation to publish a research paper with the <strong>Royal Geographical Society, London<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the Grand Finale held at <strong>Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR<\/strong>, recently, Somnath Mukherjee received institutional memorabilia and an <strong>Oxford\u2013Sa\u00efd fellowship kit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This distinction highlights the school\u2019s commitment to academic excellence and reflects <strong>AM\/NS<\/strong> <strong>International School\u2019s environment that promotes innovative and field-based approaches to learning<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sunita Matoo, Principal, AM\/NS<\/strong> <strong>International School, Surat<\/strong>, stated: <em>\u201cThis recognition reflects the dedication and excellence of our faculty and reinforces our commitment to delivering the highest standards of education.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hazira\/Surat (Gujarat) [India], September 19: Somnath Mukherjee, PGT \u2013 Geography from AM\/NS International School was selected among the Top 5 national finalists in the Geography category at the inaugural India\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/financialtelegraph.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/19\/am-ns-international-schools-geography-teacher-among-top-5-national-finalists-in-indias-best-teachers-awards-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[477],"class_list":["post-60027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-education","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialtelegraph.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialtelegraph.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialtelegraph.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialtelegraph.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialtelegraph.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialtelegraph.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialtelegraph.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialtelegraph.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialtelegraph.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialtelegraph.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}