Prime Minister’s Awards for Teaching Excellence and Teaching Excellence in STEM 2025 – YOA

Deadline: January 15, 2025

Applications are open for the Prime Minister’s Awards for Teaching Excellence and Teaching Excellence in STEM 2025. The Prime Minister’s Awards for Teaching Excellence have acknowledged distinctive elementary and secondary faculty lecturers in all disciplines since 1994, with over 1,800 lecturers honoured to this point.

The Prime Minister’s Awards for Teaching Excellence: These awards honour excellent and modern elementary and secondary faculty lecturers in all disciplines for their exceptional instructional achievements and for their dedication to getting ready youth for a digital and innovation‑based mostly financial system.

The Prime Minister’s Awards for Teaching Excellence in STEM: These awards acknowledge inspirational Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) lecturers on the elementary or secondary faculty stage who preserve college students engaged in STEM studying and who assist develop the tradition of innovation that Canada wants as we speak, and in the longer term.

Award

Teachers are eligible for two awards:

• The nationwide Certificate of Excellence
  • Recipients are historically invited to Ottawa to obtain their award from the Prime Minister or his designate.
  • Recipients obtain a certificates and letter of congratulations from the Prime Minister.
  • Each recipient’s faculty additionally receives a certificates.
• The regional Certificate of Achievement
  • Recipients are historically honoured domestically in school occasions and obtain their award from their Member of Parliament or native chief.
  • Recipients obtain a certificates and letter of congratulations from the Prime Minister.
  • Each recipient’s faculty additionally receives a certificates.

Eligibility

• Open to Canadian residents or everlasting residents of Canada;
• Certified lecturers at an elementary or secondary faculty in Canada;
• Candidates who’ve taught the equal of two.5 days per week in a classroom setting for not less than three years.
• Nominees should not be previous Certificate of Excellence recipients.

Nomination

Nominators have to submit an in depth nomination package deal that features:

• A accomplished and signed nomination form.
• An in depth nomination textual content that demonstrates how the instructor meets every of the 5 choice standards.
• Three letters of assist from people who’re conversant in the nominee and the work they do as a profitable instructor.
• Supporting documentation that confirms the instructor’s eligibility:
  • A replica of the nominee’s educating certificates.
  • A press release of employment signed by the nominee’s principal confirming that the nominee has labored not less than 2.5 days per week in a classroom setting for a minimal of three years, and that their educating certification stays in good standing.

For extra data, go to Prime Minister’s Awards.