{"id":90960,"date":"2026-09-19T14:40:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newswireindia.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:\/\/newswireindia.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 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 Best Teachers\u2019 Awards 2026, jointly presented by the Shiv Nadar Foundation and Sa\u00efd Business School, University of Oxford. The awards recognise educators of Grades 9\u201312 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-90960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}