Winners of Mohamed Bin Zayed Award for Best GCC Teacher announced

The higher committee of the Mohamed Bin Zayed Award for Best GCC Teacher has announced the winners of the first edition of the award, which was launched under the directives and kind patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, to cover a number of GCC countries.

This came during a press conference held yesterday at the headquarters of the award in Abu Dhabi in the presence of HE Hussain Bin Ibrahim Al Hammadi, Minister of Education, who is the general supervisor of the award, and higher committee members.

The winners were Rashid Ali Hashem, a physical education teacher from the UAE, and Fawzia Dhuwaiher Al Maghamsi, a mathematics teacher from Saudi Arabia. Each received AED1 million in recognition of their excellent efforts in applying all the criteria of the award on the way to educational leadership and also their initiatives, which helped develop the educational environment and were considered one of the value-added practices.

The top 20 male and female teachers participating in the award were also offered training courses as part of a trip to the world's most prestigious foundations and think tanks.

In addition, two teachers, Heba Abdul Aziz Salmeen from Kuwait and Amina Nabeel Al Rumaihi from Bahrain, were honoured for their excellence and received AED100,000 each.

During the conference, the committee announced the launch of the second edition of the award, which started from November 6 and would continue till March 3, 2019.

HH Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed congratulated both winners Rashid Ali Hashem from the UAE and Fawzia Dhuwaiher Al Maghamsi from Saudi Arabia for winning the Mohamed Bin Zayed Award for Best GCC Teacher.