The International Teachers’ Olympiad 2022 has been announced as a multinational Olympiad for teachers. The Olympiad’s purpose is to assess the efficacy of teaching approaches across global teaching standards and to prepare teachers for hybrid classrooms, shifting modalities, evolved pedagogies, and new practices.
The Olympiad registration will open on September 1, 2022. Top teachers from the Olympiad will also get monetary prizes, according to the event’s organisers, Suraasa (Les Transformations). The Olympiad is planned to attract 100,000 teachers from diverse ethnicities from around the world.
Teachers competing in the Olympiad would be able to analyse their state and national standings using their percentile scores. They will also receive a personalised assessment of their pedagogical skills as well as a six-month activity plan with expert advice from worldwide teacher educators.
This will ensure that all children at all levels of education are taught by qualified, professionally trained, and well-equipped teachers in accordance with the National Professional Standards for Teachers (NPST), NEP 2020 recommendations, and global teaching standards.
During the Olympiad, schools will receive a separate report that includes the aggregated, overall scores of all their teachers, as well as an action plan for improving student accomplishment and engagement in their classrooms. According to the event organisers, this will enable them and their professors to approach professional development and progress in a more data-aware manner.
Rishabh Khanna, a leading Cognitive Scientist and the CEO of Suraasa, shared his thoughts about the Olympiad, “Teachers are highly underappreciated and underrated. We believe that the International Teachers’ Olympiad will go a long way in getting them the much-deserved recognition by highlighting their expertise in the world.
It will act as a tool for teachers to discover their true teaching potential by identifying their individual strengths and giving them a concrete plan of action to achieve their goals.”
“This might be one of the many new initiatives that would propel the country to the global forefront of education by diagnosing the problem as well as delivering remedies to direct stakeholders. At the same time, it also puts deserving teachers under the limelight catapulting the teaching profession at the heart of education transformation,” added the release.