The 2023 Award for Teacher of the Year in a Secondary School

This category is open to all secondary phase teachers, including those in middle schools teaching children aged 11-18 who hold QTS. We welcome entries from state and independent schools in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

To maximise your nominee’s chances of success. we recommend you address the points below in your entry.

• Learning environment: The ways in which your colleague creates a learning environment which inspires a love of learning and fosters a student’s enthusiasm to strive to achieve their full potential both educationally and holistically – developing a range of skills and qualities to help them be ambitious and optimistic about life.
• Teaching and learning: The skills, characteristics and methods your colleague utilises, making them an exceptional classroom practitioner, who uses excellent pedagogy and inspires and motivates every child s/he teaches so they make impressive progress and achieve well. How do they engage other colleagues and parents on their children’s learning journey?
• Assessment:  The monitoring and assessment methods used to evaluate each pupil’s experience and progress, allowing approaches to be adjusted to take account of the needs of individual pupils and the class as a whole; ensuring continuing assessment has a significant and positive impact on a student’s outcome and self-esteem.
• Impact beyond the classroom: The ways in which your colleague ensures children in their class are learning to be good citizens and can show how their actions make a difference. On a wider level how they enrich the life of the school community. Why do teachers, staff in school and parents think your nominee is an excellent teacher?