Top Schools Awards

Now Reading

The Top Schools Award for UAE Secondary School Teacher of the Year. Top Schools Awards 2023 Nomination and Entry Forms.

Good for Sport

The Top Schools Award for UAE Secondary School Teacher of the Year. Top Schools Awards 2023 Nomination and Entry Forms.

Top Schools Awards 2023. Secondary School Teacher of the Year 2023.

by Jon WestleyDecember 13, 2022

Below is the official entry form for the Top Schools Award for UAE Secondary School Teacher of the Year, the final of our Awards for the UAE’s most outstanding teachers.

Outstanding teachers ensure that every child has a happy education that meets their needs, ambitions and potential in full – and helps every child discover their individual gifts. They give children the foundations for a life of achievement, impact and meaning. Teachers are beyond important and these Awards for Teachers are arguably the most important of any in the Top Schools Awards. We need to celebrate our teachers much more for all they do each day for our children.

For this Award, we are looking for the most extraordinary Secondary phase school teachers, including those who teach post-16 education/Sixth Form – those for whom teaching is a vocation and whose impact goes above and beyond in creating opportunities for children and young men and women. We want to celebrate teachers that make the most profound contribution to the lives of older children, preparing them for their journey in education and the life before them – and setting each day ablaze with inspiration, wonder, happiness and the confidence to learn, care for others and be themselves.

For Schools

The Top Schools Award for Secondary School Teacher of the Year 2023-24 – teachers/schools download application here.

For Parents and Students

Best schools in the emirates for post 16 education and Sixth Form including those in Dubai and Abu Dhabi

Pictured: mapping the best qualification pathways with the many options older students face when graduating school, and then inspiring passion and a love of learning in those choices, is one of the many challenges facing Secondary phase educators.

Secondary school parents and students – we want to hear from you! If you believe that your child(ren) are being taught by an absolutely, extraordinary and outstanding teacher who has made a profoundly positive and inspirational impact on you and your child(ren), please contact us with your answer to the following. “I would like to nominate [name of teacher], in class [name of class] at X school [name of school] because …. ” Please email us at [email protected]. You can write as little or as much as you wish, and please include photographs if possible. If you can, please give us an example of something that has impressed or inspired you or your child.

Top Schools Awards 2023. UAE Secondary School Teacher of the Year. Image shows the many stages of learning covered at this specialised phase of teaching

Pictured: Secondary school teachers have arguably the most complex of all challenges in mapping different teaching strategies to the phases of child learning and development.

Any teacher nominated must only, or predominantly, teach, and be a specialist in, Secondary phase education, including post-16 education/Sixth Form.

The Top Schools Awards 2023-24

Top Schools Awards 2023 The STEAM Years

This year, the Top Schools Awards are celebrating outstanding achievement in our schools with a particular focus on how schools inspire children by linking all subject areas to bring the extraordinary wonders of the Arts, creativity, imagination – and freedom to experiment and innovate, into all areas of the curriculum including, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.[/caption]

We believe, passionately, that the Arts are absolutely fundamental to delivering an outstanding education for every child, one focused on the whole child and the gifts all children have to change the world for the better and make the difference – every day, and in the future. They bring STEM to life.

Rocket Girl – the Arts and Sciences, together, brought to life

Photograph of a young rocket fuel expert testing out the TSA Jet pack as part of first phase flight testing in Dubai. Top Schools Awards 2023 - Secondary School Teacher of the Year

In November 2023, members of the TSA Space and Rocket programme completed first phase testing of the Imagination^TMpowered Jet Pack specially manufactured for this year’s Awards. We visited a number of the region’s most outstanding schools. We are particularly grateful for the assistance of the extraordinary and accredited Rocket Pilot and Space Girl Ava from Victory Heights Primary School(pictured) for her considerable, and quite, totally, awesome, bravery and kindness in completing Year 6 rocket pack inaugural flight testing.