Global Teacher Prize 2027 ($1,000,000 prize) – YOA

Deadline: October 12, 2026

Applications are invited for the Global Teacher Prize 2027 – a US $1 million award introduced to an distinctive instructor who has made an excellent contribution to their occupation. The Global Teacher Prize serves to underline the significance of educators and the truth that, all through the world, their efforts should be recognised and celebrated. It seeks to acknowledge the impacts of the perfect lecturers – not solely on their college students however on the communities round them.

This 12 months, extra educators than ever earlier than are eligible to enter. As part of the Prize’s subsequent chapter, eligibility has been broadened to incorporate digital educators reaching college students on-line, leaders of training programmes, and lecturers working in refugee and different non-formal settings — alongside classroom lecturers around the globe.

Prize

• The Prize shall be paid to the winner (or, within the occasion of demise, his private representatives or beneficiary(ies), as relevant) by VF in equal annual instalments of US$100,000 over a interval of ten (10) years, topic to any tax or different withholding required beneath relevant regulation.

Eligibility

• Open to educators of any nationality and in any nation, topic to native legal guidelines, who’ve been working within the training of scholars aged 4 to eighteen for no less than 5 years.
• Eligible candidates embrace classroom lecturers in state and impartial faculties; Early Years lecturers working to a recognised curriculum; lecturers in non-formal training settings, for instance lecturers in refugee training; and digital educators whose instructing reaches college students via video, or different revealed codecs with ongoing cohorts.
• Also eligible are founders or leaders of training programmes whose personal work is the design, route, and scaling of structured studying that reaches college students aged 4 to eighteen — together with non-formal and neighborhood-primarily based programmes delivered via a community of centres, facilitators, or volunteers. Part-time, contract, and self-employed educators are eligible on the identical foundation as full-time workers.
• What each eligible candidate shares, regardless of the setting, is direct duty for the educational of youngsters and younger individuals — in a classroom, via a digital platform, or by designing and main an training programme.
• Candidates whose position is solely administrative or managerial, and not using a persevering with private hand within the design and apply of instructing, aren’t eligible. Teachers in additional or increased training (18+) are NOT eligible.

Selection Criteria

• Effective educational apply: Employing efficient practices which might be replicable and scalable, and that affect the standard of training domestically, nationally, or globally.
• Innovative educational apply: Employing modern practices that tackle the actual challenges of the college, neighborhood, nation, platform, or learner inhabitants, with adequate proof to recommend they may very well be efficient in addressing such challenges in new methods.
• Demonstrable studying outcomes: Achieving evidenced pupil studying outcomes — measured via evaluation, longitudinal progress, structured platform knowledge, or impartial testimony — that may be attributed to the candidate’s work, or, the place relevant, to the mixture outcomes of the training programme they designed and direct.
• Impact past the instant instructing setting: Impact in the neighborhood, occupation, or wider discipline past the candidate’s instant classroom, platform, or cohort, offering distinguished fashions of excellence for others.
• Education for world citizenship and peace: Helping college students change into world residents via a values-primarily based training that equips them to stay, work, and have interaction with individuals from many alternative nationalities, cultures, faiths, and worldviews — and to constructively navigate, resolve, and the place acceptable forestall disagreements and promote peace.
• Strengthening the instructing occupation: Helping to boost the usual of instructing — via mentorship of colleagues, public sharing of apply, contribution to instructor training, or any work that helps different educators overcome the challenges they face.
• Recognition: Recognition of the candidate’s work by governments, nationwide instructing organisations, faculty leaders, friends, mother and father, pupils, regulatory or skilled our bodies, and— for digital educators — by the platforms, establishments, or studying communities inside which they educate.

Application

For extra data, go to Global Teacher Prize.