The Global Teacher Prize is an annual US$ 1 million award by the Varkey Foundation to a teacher who has made an outstanding contribution to the profession. Nominations of teachers who meet specific criteria are open to the worldwide public, and teachers can also nominate themselves. The judging is done by the Global Teacher Prize Academy, consisting of head teachers, education experts, commentators, journalists, public officials, tech entrepreneurs, company directors, and scientists from around the world.
7-645: The annual prize was launched at the second annual Global Education and Skills Forum in March 2014 and received over 5,000 nominations from 127 countries. The Global Teacher Prize, which has been referred to by journalists as the Nobel Prize for teaching, highlights and celebrates the profession while giving greater recognition to the work of teachers all over the world The head of the Varkey Foundation has asserted that, "We want to promote teachers as stars and to support
14-645: A variety of major global organizations including UNESCO , UNICEF , and the Clinton Global Initiative . It gives out the Global Teacher Prize, a US$ 1 million award. The foundation was formed by Sunny Varkey in 2010 as the philanthropic arm of GEMS Education , and was initially called the Varkey GEMS Foundation. Its stated intention is to impact 100 impoverished children for every child enrolled at GEMS schools. Bill Clinton
21-555: The inaugural keynote address at the 2013 summit. In October 2013, the foundation published the Global Teacher Status Index, a 53-page study on the public and social status of teachers in 21 countries around the world. In order to raise the status of teaching, at the second annual Global Education and Skills Forum in March 2014, the foundation launched the Global Teacher Prize, an annual $ 1 million award to an exceptional teacher who has made an outstanding contribution to
28-542: The quality of education to highlight the enormous impact teachers have on our lives"; "Teaching needs to be the most important profession in the world and they've got to be given their due respect." Since 2018, Portugal has the 'Global Teacher Prize Portugal', which is an annual 30,000 EUR award by the Varkey Foundation as well, sponsored by Delta Cafe, partnered with Fundação Galp, Federação Portuguesa de Futebol, and audited by PWC. The first annual Global Teacher Prize
35-566: The upkeep, development, and scholarships of her school, the nonprofit Center for Teaching and Learning, which is also a demonstration school for developing and disseminating teaching methods. Global Education and Skills Forum The Varkey Foundation , initially the Varkey GEMS Foundation , is the nonprofit arm of GEMS Education , an education management company. It was formed in 2010 by Indian businessman Sunny Varkey , GEMS chairman. The Varkey Foundation has partnered with
42-489: Was awarded in March 2015 to Nancie Atwell , an innovative and pioneering English teacher and teacher trainer in rural Maine in the United States, who founded and runs a school where students read an average of 40 books a year, choose which books they read, and write prolifically. Atwell has authored nine books on teaching, including one which has sold more than half a million copies. She donated her $ 1 million prize to
49-502: Was involvement at the official launch of the foundation. Sunny Varkey is chairman of the Varkey Foundation. The foundation's trustees are Sunny Varkey, as well as his sons Dino and Jay Varkey. The foundation has a Teacher Training Programme in under-served communities. In 2013, the foundation launched the annual Global Education and Skills Forum, in partnership with UNESCO and the UAE Ministry of Education. Bill Clinton gave
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