Indian teacher Ranjitsinh Disale wins annual $1M Global Teacher Prize; shares half with 9 finalists

Top teacher wins $1m and gives half away (BBC News): Mr Disale, who teach­es in the Zil­la Parishad Pri­ma­ry School, in the drought-prone vil­lage of Parite­wa­di, in the west­ern Indi­an state of Maha­rash­tra, was named the world’s most excep­tion­al teacher, ahead of 12,000 oth­er nom­i­na­tions … He also pro­vides online sci­ence lessons for pupils in 83…

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Meet the Top 50 finalists for the Global Teacher Prize 2020!

__ Dear friends of the Glob­al Teacher Prize, We hope you, and your fam­i­ly, are well and keep­ing safe dur­ing these strange times. We have just announced the Glob­al Teacher Prize Top 50 Final­ists for 2020. As we live through this pan­dem­ic and glob­al edu­ca­tion sys­tems adapt to a new and unfa­mil­iar ter­rain, the one voice that should…

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Enhancing brains the tried-and-true way: 50 Finalists shortlisted for the $1M Global Teacher Prize

Con­grat­u­la­tions to the Top 50 2018 Final­ists! Now in its fourth year, the US $1 mil­lion Glob­al Teacher Prize award is the largest prize of its kind, and was set up to rec­og­nize one excep­tion­al teacher who has made an out­stand­ing con­tri­bu­tion to the pro­fes­sion as well as to shine a spot­light on the impor­tant role…

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Final 10 days to submit nominations for the Global Teacher Prize 2018

_______________ Please join us in cel­e­brat­ing teach­ers and the amaz­ing things they do to devel­op and refine our brains. Rec­og­nize the teach­ers who have changed your life, and the lives of oth­ers around you, by nom­i­nat­ing them for a Glob­al Teacher Prize HERE before Octo­ber 8th, 2017. Descrip­tion: The Glob­al Teacher Prize is a US $1 mil­lion award…

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