Terracotta artistes of Aurangabad village in Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh may have earned themselves a name across the globe, but lack of resources is weakening the love for the craft. The reason for this is more toil and less remuneration

For a teacher at a rural school in Gorakhpur, the performance tracker where she records the progress of each of her students, is an invaluable teaching aid that brings out the best in her students and in herself.

Jagriti Mishra is a teacher at a primary school in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, who uses an array of teaching methods to break the fear of public speaking in her students who come from rural hinterlands.

In a rural school in Gorakhpur, a teacher has dedicated Saturdays for conversations with her students on anything under the sun. This has got even the shyest of students to open up, and has made both teaching and learning a joy, the teacher said.

Primary teacher Shazia Bano of Bhandaro village in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh is ensuring that every child in her class is equipped with literacy and numeracy skills. And to do the same, she arms herself with colourful story books, maths kit, flash cards, and posters.

Sadhna Pandey has been teaching at Urdichak Primary School in Bharohiya block of Gorakhpur for the past one decade. It hasn’t been an easy journey, with a daily commute of three hours, high absenteeism and lack of infrastructure. But something keeps her going. What is it that keeps her going, she often asks herself.