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PROFILE
Jharna Dey has 37 years of experience as
a teacher. She has been teaching Mathematics
in Dev Samaj Modern School, New Delhi, for
the last 20 years.
Ms Dey, having completed school education
in 1968 from Kolkata, obtained her BSc and
Bed degrees from the University of Calcutta
in 1971 and 1974 respectively with distinction
in each. In 1976, she did her MEd from the
Central Institute of Education, University
of Delhi. In the year 2000, she completed
the Educational Leadership Programme (ELP)
from the Centre for Educational Management
and Development (CEMD).
Apart from authoring books for prestigious
private publishing houses, she has authored
several text books, manuals and activity books
on Mathematics for NCERT. She has co-authored
Lab Manuals for the Central Board of Secondary
Education as well. As consultant for Micro
Computer Services (e-learning), she was involved
in developing a CD to present interactive
and illustrative methods of understanding
the fundamentals of Mathematics.
A consultant with egurucool.com, an online
educational web portal, Ms Dey has conducted
online tutorials chat for Class IX as subject
expert during which she interacted with students
from across the world. She is also a resource
person for the foundation course of ‘Sarva
Shiksha Abhiyaan’ conducted by the Centre
for Educational Management (CEMD) on behalf
of the Directorate of Education.
As Master Training Instructor for the DAV
group of schools, she has conducted sessions
on ‘Pedagogy of Mathematics’ for
DAV schools in Haryana, Rajasthan and Delhi.
Ms Dey has several awards to her credit.
Among these are the Best Teacher Award
from the Lion’s Club in 2007, Millennium
National Teacher Award from the Institute
for Environment, Yoga and Social Security
in 2006, Sukriti Kala Samman
from the same institute in 2005. She was awarded
the first prize for making the most powerful
telescope at the State level competition held
in 1989 on ‘Making lens for telescope
and fabrication of telescope’.
Other than Mathematics, Ms Dey has varied
interests ranging from theatre to cricket.
She performs in street plays for underprivileged
children.
She is a keen sport enthusiast having represented
both Calcutta University and Delhi University
in Women’s Cricket Tournaments; is a
three star holder in track events including
long jump and high jump; and has participated
in badminton, table tennis, carom playing
competitions while in college.
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