Credentials of Suresh C Joshi, Delhi, India

Major Achievements, Honors, Academic awards, Scholarships:

1.      Have been featured in ‘Teacher of the Day archive’ of Education World (e – magazine) published from San Diego, CA, United States. (http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/teacher-of-the-day/Suresh-Joshi.shtml)

2.      Chief – Editor of the “How Digital” e – journal of EUMIND (Europe Meets India) 2013 – 14. 

3.     Developed ‘Game Based Teaching Model’
    (http://gamebasedteachingmodel.com/)

4.      Recipient of Fulbright Alumni Grant – 2013 from Institute of International Education, Department of State, US for “Inclusion, Implementation and Popularization of ‘Game Based Teaching Model’ in India.”

5.      Invited as one of the panellists and to give a talk on ‘Physics & Indian Traditional Games’ to “First International Traditional Games Conference” June 26 – 28, 2013, at Salish Kootenai College in Montana by The International Traditional Games Society, East Glacier Park, MT, USA.

6.      Got Scholarship from ‘NIIT University’ to pursue M. Tech. in Educational Technology (2013-14).

7.      Awarded “Distinguished Fulbright Awards in Teaching – 2012” sponsored by Institute of International Education, US Department of State and J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to conduct research in US on a self proposed action based research project “Learning Physics Through Traditional Games: A Game Based Teaching Model (GBTM) Builds an Inquiry Classroom Environment” at College of Education, College Park, University of Maryland, United States (14^th August – 14^th December 2012).

8.      Won ‘First prize’ a laptop and ‘Citation’ for creating a lesson plan using software provided by ‘SMART Technologies’ on ‘best use of technology in classroom teaching’ during a Leadership workshop 'THE SMART SUMMIT, A Conclave of School Leaders' on 2^nd March 2012, at 'The Lalit', Barakhamba Avenue, Connaught Place, Delhi, India, organized by SMART Technologies.

9.      Model ‘SAWCAST’ is accepted for competition in Ignite – 11 and 8^th National Biennial Competition by ‘National Innovation Foundation’ Ahmedabad, Gujrat, India.

10.  Recommended as 'Principal Nominee' by National Selection Committee (India) for Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program – 2012and Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Program – 2011in U. S.

11.  Awarded ‘4^thIndira Gandhi Teachers Award: 2007 – 08’ for producing 100% results (of classes X and XII) in Physics, by Shri Sandeep Dixit, Member of Parliament, Govt. of India.     

12.   Selected to participate in “Introductory School on string theory” held at International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy (3 – 14 June 2002).

13. Research Scholar, High Energy Physics (DSA/COSIST program of UGC, New Delhi) Department of Physics, Kumaon University, Nainital, Uttaranchal, India from June 1997 – March 2002.