Two Italians among finalists for $1m "Nobel" prize for teaching

Two teachers from Italy, Daniela Boscolo and Daniele Manni, are among 50 finalists from across the world for a $1m award, designed to be the Nobel Prize of education for teaching. The Varkey GEMS Foundation Global Teacher Prize is to be given to one exceptional teacher who has made an outstanding contribution to the profession. It seeks to do for education what the Nobel Prize has done for science, literature, and peace. In a news release, the Varkey GEMS Foundation said it decided to offer the prize after it commissioned a study that found teachers had low status in many nations across the globe. Even in Europe, the foundation said, it found that, in many countries, “less than a quarter of people thought that pupils respected teachers, and only a quarter of parents would encourage their child to become a teacher.” Shortlisted from more than 5,000 nominations from 127 countries, the 50 teachers will be judged on their use of innovative instructional practices, what they do to “open up their pupil’s minds”, their contribution to the community and how much they encourage others to become teachers. The eventual winner will receive financial counselling when they receive the prize, which they will get in 10 equal annual instalments on the condition that they remain a classroom teacher for at least five more years. The criteria include: innovative and effective instructional practices; accomplishments beyond the classroom that provide role models for the teaching profession; contributions to public debates on raising the bar of the teaching profession; sharing inspirational education practices with other teachers; preparing children to be global citizens; improving access to a quality education for children of all backgrounds; third party recognition of a teacher’s achievements in the classroom and beyond; encouraging others to join the teaching profession. The top 50 shortlisted teachers have now been judged by a Prize Committee with the final ten candidates to be announced in February 2015. The winner will then be chosen from these ten finalists by a Global Teacher Prize Academy. All ten finalists will be invited to Dubai for the award ceremony at the Global Education and Skills Forum (GESF) in March next year. The top 50 finalists: www.globalteacherprize.org/top-50-finalists.

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