Teaching Excellence Awards 2012

 Teaching Excellence Award- 

 Recognizing and Rewarding the Dedicated 

The TE Award was initiated by Dr. Mustafa Lutfy, acting Minister of Education in 2010. The process allows for anyone in the Maldives to nominate outstanding teachers, heads of schools and staff members who are making exceptional contributions to the schools in Maldives. The awards are catagorised in such a way that all key players within a school community are acknowledged. 

The Ministry of Education is greatful to the various partners who continue to support the award categories and those who assist in the process of event planning, management and selection. Quality Schools Blog hopes our readers start looking for that special dedicated school member in their school. Categories and the nomination details are given below.

Award Categories:

10 different award categories recognizing different ranges of people and skills

1.    Four Seasons Resorts Award for Teacher of the Year in a Pre-school

     All certified teachers (including head teachers) working with pre-school children are eligible

2.    ADK Group Award for Leading Teacher of the Year in a Primary School

3.    Media Net Digital Award for Teacher of the Year in a Primary School

     All certified teachers teaching primary students (including leading teachers, in-charge of primary students/teachers)

4.    Villa College Award for Teacher of the Year in a Secondary School

5.    Alia Investments Award for Leading Teacher of the Year in a Secondary School

      All certified teachers teaching secondary students (includes higher secondary within the eligibility category)

6.    Global Links Award for New Teacher of the Year

      Certified teacher in a school who have up to three years of teaching experience

7.    Air Taxi Award for the Principal of the Year

      All heads, principals and deputy principals are included in this category

8.    Ensis Award for Life-time Achievement

      All certified educators with at least 25 years of experience (working or retired)

9.    Island Aviation Award for Support Staff of the Year (1 award)

     All working in the support staff category; it includes, counselors, health assistants, librarians, lab technicians, sports supervisors, secretarial staff etc.

10. Orchid Holdings Pvt Ltd Award for Special Educational Needs Teacher of the Year     

      All teachers teaching SEN classes/students are eligible

 NOMINATION

Anyone except family members can submit a nomination for Awards for Teaching Excellence in the Maldives.

For nomination, the person will have;

1. To choose the appropriate award category

2. To get consent from the nominee (a written consent from the nominee need to be submitted)

3. To submit additional endorsements from 2 other people. The people who write these endorsements should

    know the nominee and should write in their letters why the candidate should receive an award. Two

    different perspectives should be included; example, a parent and a principal, a student and a teacher, etc

     (members of the family cannot write endorsement letters supporting the nominee). Each letter should not

     be more than 3 pages long, typeset in Times New Roman, font size 12, single line spacing.

4.  To complete the nomination form ( downloadable from the Ministry of Education website: www.moe.gov.mv/downloads -)

5. To send it in before the nomination deadline.

Deadline: 12th August 2012