Global Assosciation 🤝

1] Outstanding Young Educator Award Winner 2009
2] Part of PAC ( Position Advisory Committee) which reports of Board of Directors and prepares Agenda of educational related topics which needs to be discussed and policy makers need to be informed about.
3] Was invited to write a column ‘ In classroom with Bijal Damani’for one year in ASCD Education Update which is circulated in more than 198 countries around the world.
4] Presented at two of its Annual conferences – sharing classroom practices with the teachers around the globe.
5] Am part of their Book Review Committee.

1] Only Asian teacher to have received theOutstanding Teacher Award 2011for innovative and effective use of technology in classroom.
2] Have been invited toJudge the ‘Outstanding Teacher Award’ from 2011 onward. Bijal brings an international

outlook to Judging Committed.
3] Was featured on the front page of ISTE’s Magazine ‘Leading and Learning with Technology’ http://bit.ly/2eEbPHE

1] Is part of Microsoft Expert Educator Community
2] Winner of Global competition amongst Microsoft Expert Educators 2014 at Barcelona.
3] Microsoft Expert Educator 2015 – eligible to attend Global Forum at Redmond Washington in April 2014.

1] Judge for Wharton Stars Reimagine Award 2018

1] Bijal is the First Indian Educator to have been certified as GOOGLE CERTIFIED TEACHER at Google’s Head Quarter at Mountain View 2012.

2] She has also been invited to present at GAFE taking place in India.

1] Bijal has been invited to be on Advisory Board of this dynamic Community which spreads awareness on Educational Technology in the globe.

1] UNESCO MGIEP 360 Degree Kindness Award Winner 2018

2] Bijal was invited by UNESCO to share her classroom practices and innovative ways in which technology can be integrated in classroom for teachers of Thailand.

She also presented at 5th Teachers Conference, Singapore on invitation from Ministry of Education, Singapore.

3rd International Conference on Intercultural Communication Competence having them of ‘Learning, Teaching and Research in a Borderless World’ was held at Indian Institute of Management ( IIM-Ahmedabad). A paper on ‘ ‘If World Were A Village…’ based on Online Collaborative project with students of Japan and Russia was presented.

Bijal has been features on Forbes India 9th January 2015 – featuring her as Good Samaritan Award Winner 2015 – first educator to have received an honour of this kind.

http://forbesindia.com/article/philanthropy-awards-2014/bijal- damani-rajkots-good-samaritan/39271/1

1] Inspirational Teacher Award 2013
2] Bijal was invited to be part of present and attend the ‘Education That Pays For Itself’ International Conference at Kampala in October 2014. She shared her classroom practices with teachers from around the world to drive home the point how can we have self sustained schools and how can the social and opportunity gap in the world be bridged.

1. 1)  Teaching the curriculum since 1999

2. 2)  Received Training for Commerce from ISC/ICSE board

3. 3)  Paper Setter for Subject 307

4. 4)  Bijal has represented ICSE and was nominated for

   National Awards for Teaching in ICSE Category.

5. 5)  Bijal is also the recipient Derozio Award for Education and

   Human Enrichment instituted by ICSE.

1. 1)  PBLU Certified Teacher

2. 2)  PBL 101 workshop

3. 3)  Was instrumental in bringing BIE PBL workshop to TGES

o Mentor at various Google TechStar StartUp Weekends

1] Invited Speaker at EdmodoCon 2013 at San Mateo, California. The only International Teacher to have been invited for the same.
https://youtu.be/HGhzCsgzwkc

2] Edmodo Support Ambassador

3] Represented Edmodo at Future of Learning Conference in New Delhi.

IB Level 2 Certified Teacher for Business and Management

March 2010