For roughly 40 years, Nancie Atwell has thought of herself first and foremost as a teacher. But recently in Dubai, she got a major title bump. Today, many are calling her the world's best teacher ...

The "world's best teacher" says that a culture of excessive testing can damage standards and "decimate morale" among teachers. Nancie Atwell, a US teacher who won the Global Teacher Prize earlier ...

The Palestinian woman who this week won a $1 million “World’s Best Teacher” award returned home Wednesday and pledged to use part of her winnings to help students and educators. Hanan al ...

A north London teacher was announced as the first British winner of a prize for the world’s best teacher in Dubai last night. The finalists were drawn from more than 30,000 nominations in 173 ...

Two teachers in England have made the shortlist for the World's Best Teacher Award. Cat Davison, a critical thinking teacher at Sevenoaks school in Kent and David Swanston, a teacher of the ...

Nancie Atwell says shouting is not the way to get pupils' attention The "world's best teacher" says that a culture of excessive testing can damage standards and "decimate morale" among teachers.