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.

Scarcity of resources can lead to innovative ideas, as Roshan Jahan, a primary school teacher in rural Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh has demonstrated, as she successfully manages a multi-grade, multi-level classroom and keeps all her 55 students engaged.

A school teacher has walked free after the High Court of Bombay at Goa quashed all charges levied by the Goa Children's Court. The 2014 case received the judgement by the single judge bench of Bharat Deshpande, in favour of Rekha Faldessai, a teacher at a South Goa school, who was convicted of causing ‘physical and psychological abuse’ to her minor girl students. Gaon Connection spoke with some teachers, teachers' association and sector experts and this is what they said…