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."Applications open for world’s first one million dollar teacher prize" (press release). EducationandSkillsForum.org. March 2014.Brain, Rondinelli. "Now There's A Davos Of Education And A $1 Million 'Nobel Prize' For Teachers". Forbes. 22 March 2014.Global Teacher Prize – About the Prize. GlobalTeacherPrize.org. Retrieved 31 July 2015. Nominations of teachers who meet specific criteria are open to the worldwide public, and teachers can also nominate themselves.Strauss, Valerie. "Can a $1 million global teacher competition (backed by Bill Clinton) boost the profession?". Washington Post. 30 August 2014. 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.Global Teacher Prize – Meet the Academy . GlobalTeacherPrize.org. Retrieved 31 July 2015.

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.Quimby, Beth and Dennis Hoey. "First 'Nobel Prize for Teaching' goes to Mainer". Portland Press Herald. March 15, 2015."The (Million-Dollar) Value Of Great Teaching". NPR. 15 March 2015.Press Trust of India."Three Indians Shortlisted for $1 Million Prize for Outstanding Teachers". NDTV. 8 December 2014.

The Global Teacher Prize, which has been referred to by journalists as the Nobel Prize for teaching,Shapiro, Jordan. "Now There's A Davos Of Education And A $1 Million 'Nobel Prize' For Teachers". Forbes. 22 March 2014.*"First 'Nobel Prize of teaching' winner gets $1 million". CNN. 17 March 2015. Toppo, Greg. "U.S. writing teacher wins $1M 'Nobel Prize of Teaching'". USA Today. 15 March 2015. Batrawy, Aya. "Beloved Literature Teacher Wins $1 Million Award, Donates It All To Improve Education Methods". Associated Press / Huffington Post. 16 March 2015. Vaughan, Richard. "$1m 'Nobel prize for teaching' goes to US English teacher". TES. 15 March 2015. highlights and celebrates the profession while giving greater recognition to the work of teachers all over the world"Teachers From India Urged to Apply for Global Teacher Prize 2016". The New Indian Express. 30 May 2015.Varkey, Sunny. "Put education at the top of global agenda" . TES. 6 March 2015. The head of the Varkey Foundation has asserted that, "We want to promote teachers as stars and to support the quality of education to highlight the enormous impact teachers have on our lives";Coughlan, Sean. "World's top teacher to win $1m prize in new competition". BBC News. 29 October 2013. "Teaching needs to be the most important profession in the world and they've got to be given their due respect."Coughlan, Sean. "The man behind the million-dollar teacher". BBC News. 5 May 2015.

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.

History

The first annual Global Teacher Prize 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."Nancie Atwell Of Maine Wins $1 Million Global Teaching Prize". NPR. 16 March 2015. Atwell has authored nine books on teaching, including one which has sold more than half a million copies.Coughlan, Sean. "Global teacher prize winner to give away $1m". BBC News. 15 March 2015. She donated her $1million prize to 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.Associated Press. "Maine Teacher Wins $1 Million Global Teacher Prize in Dubai". New York Times. 15 March 2015.Marsh, Sarah. "US teacher wins $1m for developing reading and writing skills". The Guardian. 15 March 2015."10 Incredible Facts about Prize Winner Nancie Atwell" . VarkeyFoundation.org. 19 March 2015.

Awarded {| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;" |- bgcolor="#efefef" |- ! Year !! Image !! Name !! Country !! Occupation |- | 2015 || ||Nancie Atwell|| || English teacher and teacher trainer. |- | 2016 || ||Hanan Al Hroub|| ||Palestinian teacher. |- | 2017 || || Maggie MacDonnell || ||Inuit teacher. |- | 2018 || || Andria Zafirakou || ||Arts and textiles teacher. |- | 2019 || ||Peter Tabichi|| || Science teacher.

| 2020 ||||Ranjitsinh Disale || ||Indian teacher. |- |2021 |||| Keishia Thorpe || || English teacher. |- |2023 |||| Sister Zeph || || Pakistani Christian teacher. |- |2025 || ||Mansour Al Mansour

||Saudi Teacher. |- |2026 || ||Rouble Nagi || || Indian Teacher

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