Ranjitsinh Disale appointed as an education adviser by World Bank

A Maharashtra village teacher, Ranjitsinh Disale, who won the Global Teacher Prize 2020, has now been appointed as an education adviser with the World Bank.

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As one of his first projects with the international organisation, Disale is devising a strategy to make schools across the world safer for kids.

The World Bank has launched a new Coach initiative that aims to accelerate student learning by improving in-service teacher professional development (TPD).

The World Bank has appointed 12 advisors from world over and Mr. Disale is one of them representing India. He will be an advisor to the World Bank till December 2024.

World Bank has recently launched the Global Coach Program, a new initiative focused on accelerating learning by helping countries improve in-service teacher professional development (TPD) programs and systems.

This program forms part of the World Bank’s broader agenda to tackle the global learning crisis (WDR, 2018).

Coach focuses on supporting countries improve in-service TPD through a two-pronged approach.

The Coach program focuses on helping countries transform their TPD programs and policies to ones that adhere to a set of four key principles that have been shown to be linked to improved teaching quality.

Disale’s work through the Advisory Board will impact the work World Bank on the ground, currently supporting over 18 million teachers around the world.