Meet the teachers who make up the Final Ten shortlist (narrowed down from 8,000 nominations in 148 countries around the world) in the Varkey Foundation’s Global Teacher Prize 2016. They are Aqeela Asifi, Ayub Mohamud, Colin Hegarty, Hanan Al Hroub, Joe Fatheree, Kazuya Takahashi, Michael Soskil, Richard Johnson, Maarit Rossi and Robin Chaurasiya. The winner will be announced in an evening ceremony on March 13th at the Global Education and Skills Forum in Dubai when one teacher will take home a $1 million international prize. Kazuya Takahashi tells me that being in the final Top 10 makes him proud that he “made the right choice to become a teacher.” It also opens his eyes to his other “great and inspiring colleagues around the globe. We teachers can work together to have a huge impact on the next generation.”

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