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Inspirational teachers

11 October 2015

  • Mary Poppins

    'Show us that you care': a student's view on what makes a perfect teacher

    Ofsted has its own ideas about outstanding teaching, but what young people need is quite different

5 October 2015

  • David Baddiel, fiction for older children

    'I needed someone to make me believe': the teachers who inspired us

    In honour of World Teachers’ Day popular writers, comedians and a theoretical physicist recall their favourite educators

2 October 2015

  • JK Rowling

    Share memories of your favourite teachers: who do you recall and why?

    Celebrate World Teachers’ Day by telling us about the amazing people in education whose lessons you’ll always remember

24 September 2014

  • Street party in Ahmedabad, India.

    My son’s education made him feel a failure – so I founded my own school

    Designer turned teacher, Kiran Sethi, devised a curriculum focused on empowering children – and watched her project flower into a campaign for child-friendly cities in India

15 September 2014

  • Riots in Ferguson , Missouri

    When riots broke out in Ferguson, my pop-up school gave pupils a safe place to learn

    Teacher Carrie Pace tells how her impromptu classroom in a local library became a peaceful haven during protests in Missouri

11 September 2014

  • Matthew Bell

    Globetrotting teacher visits more than 55 countries to inspire his students

    There’s no substitute for the sense of wonder on first seeing the Great Wall, says teacher Matthew Bell, plans to visit every country in the world to bring geography to life for his students

3 September 2014

  • World Peace Game

    The teacher who challenged his pupils to achieve world peace with a game

    US teacher John Hunter found global recognition when he devised the World Peace Game. He discusses its lasting impact

27 August 2014

  • The Adamson Centre

    How I quadrupled the number of pupils taking German in my school

    Award-winning modern languages teacher Sara Davidson explains why the most important language in Europe still has a cloud hanging over it

20 August 2014

  • Stephen Ritz standing among vertical planters

    My edible classroom gives deprived New York kids a reason to attend school

    Teacher Stephen Ritz explains how a project to grow fresh food in his school turned into a wider movement encouraging healthy eating among US students
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