Andria Zafirakou, who teaches at Alperton Community School, has won the prestigious Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize.



The award, which recognises a teacher who has made an outstanding contribution to the profession, has a prize of $1 million . And the 39-year has guided youngsters from one of the poorest areas of the country and helped pupils from a variety of backgrounds.

Andria Zafirakou, who teaches at Alperton Community School, has won the prestigious Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize.

The award, which recognises a teacher who has made an outstanding contribution to the profession, has a prize of $1 million . And the 39-year has guided youngsters from one of the poorest areas of the country and helped pupils from a variety of backgrounds.

This included learning basic greetings in many of the 35 languages spoken at the school, including Gujarati, Hindi, Tamil and Portuguese, to help parents feel welcome and included.


Ms Zafirakou, the first British teacher to be awarded the prize, paid tribute to the power of the arts after being named the winner.

She said: ‘I was shocked. I was completely overwhelmed. I didn’t realise it was me.’

Asked what she will do with the prize money, she said:

‘I’m going to be patient, I’m going to reflect, but as you know I think it would be really fantastic if I could think about how the arts could be celebrated even further within our school community.’

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"world's best teacher"? World? I'm sure my grandma was a better teacher sef

how do they arrive at her been the best? What criteria and parameter were used?

Good motivation. I bet a teacher from Kaduna will grasp this price next year.

Wow! ....$1million ...she deserves it _c'mon winning such an amount @39years is well deserved! Imagine all the work, love n effort engaged in her daily interactions with those kids

Sometimes a good heart with time woud get crushed if not rewarded accordingly! ... Our education bank should also get deposits of awards like this to encourage those out there who are striving to do their Job well without letting the half-payment of salary deter them!

That is some whooping 360m.

But how did they arrive at the conclusion that he is the world's best teacher? Did they take samples from Nigeria?

I know mental slaves will scream at the top of their voices asking why I mentioned Nigerian teachers, there are Nigerians teaching in most advanced obodo oyibo and are doing better than their oyibo counterparts.

God bless my mom

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Is naija there ¿

The only world best I know is Cristiano Ronaldo.

Mothers are the best teachers?
Yay or Nay?

If na Naija now u for deh hear things like No be woman she used what she had to get it..... She had slept with the judges etc. But ThankGod its not naija. Congratulations madam

sammy4life1:
If na Naija now u for deh hear things like No be woman she used what she has to get it..... She has slept with the judges etc. But ThankGod its not naija. Congratulations madam

Nigerians hate to see themselves succeed. They prefer the "poor and humble" rather than "comfortable to wealthy".

Wey teacher plenty for kaduna ask El rural...

it is obvious you will not find our youths here to make sensible comments. if it was about ffk,reno,bbn,buhari you will be seeing comments here and there . the thing is we need to wake up as youths lets use the power of social media to our advantage not just grab your keypads and type rubbish .

sammy4life1:
If na Naija now u for deh hear things like No be woman she used what she has to get it..... She has slept with the judges etc. But ThankGod its not naija. Congratulations madam

Sadly in Nigeria, many are yet to be comfortable with the idea that a female can achieve without having to sleep around.

lenghtinny:
These are the kind of rewards I love to see....


Not the one that you get 45m for doing nonsense and ingredients

Only $1m



Make I waka pass.

sammy4life1:
If na Naija now u for deh hear things like No be woman she used what she has to get it..... She has slept with the judges etc. But ThankGod its not naija. Congratulations madam

Must u always paint ur country in bad light?

RexTramadol1:
Only $1m



Make I waka pass.

Abeg convert am to ur Nigeria money and see how much

World best teacher kwa? How dey take vote am and when? My primary school teacher nko wey all of us give best teacher that year?

lenghtinny:
These are the kind of rewards I love to see....


Not the one that you get 45m for doing nonsense and ingredients

Please can you remind me..... Just hope its not our BBNaija u are referring to

Congratulations to her but calling her "world's best teacher" is just absurd. On what basis was she chosen as the world best? What parameters were used? What kind of survey was carried out? There are more and even better devoted teachers all over the world so calling someone world's best out of the blues is just a fallacy.

Uyi168:
Must u always paint ur country in bad light?

Not always .... Nigeria has its good side but truth be said u might just be the one to have said she used woman power if it happened in Nigeria

What about those teaching the almajeris in Kano, Katsina etc? White is meant for the white. Congrats madam!

DeKen:
Good motivation. I bet a teacher from Kaduna will grap this price next year.

e be like say na Kaduna teacher teach you English language as you no fit GRAP ordinary spelling

How did they know she is the world's best teacher?

Read:
The Photo Of This Dog With The Face of a Human Being Will Freak You Out

http://borednigerian.com/photo-dog-human-like-face-will-freak/

O ga O.. So as Chemist my chemistry teacher try reach all those years, even going beyond his duties as a teacher, Dem still no recognise am..

SHS Akure..