Lifetime Achievement
This award is for teachers who have dedicated their life to the teaching profession and are approaching the end of their career. These people will have had a significant and positive impact on the people they have worked with over the course of their teaching career; from pupils and colleagues to educational stakeholders and within their local community, and not only in their current schools but throughout their teaching career. Their commitment to, and passion for, education is exemplary to all.
We’d love to read about your colleague’s long-term efforts, dedication, and sustained commitment to education, how they have had an impact on those they have taught, worked with and inspired during their careers.
Please tell us in around 1000 words, referring to the guide prompts below. You can add further details in the additional information section at the end of this form, should you wish to.
Who can enter?
This category is for teachers and headteachers in schools or FE colleges approaching the end of their career, who hold QTS. We welcome entries from state and independent schools.
Points to cover
The following prompts might help to focus your thinking as you prepare your entry :
- Achievement: The ways in which your colleague has worked to help raise the educational standard achieved by the students in their care, and how others have viewed these outcomes.
- Life-long learning and Development: The ways in which your colleague has maintained a commitment to their own professional development throughout their long career, ensuring they are always abreast of and use new, as well as tried and tested teaching methods in order to give their students the best education possible.
- Inspiring others: The ways in which your colleague is a source of inspiration to other team members. How have they helped develop the expertise of others, and used their experience to engage with parents, other schools and the local community?
- Lifetime Achievement: What you consider to be the major achievements of your colleague throughout their career with both peers and students they have taught, how they have enriched the lives of those in the school community? What is likely to be their legacy for education?
2023 Pearson National Teaching Awards Entry Form
Note: Please read the 'Points to cover' prior to making your entry.
