The Jury has during their annual meeting selected the winners of the Teacher Award 2022 based on their excelling efforts in driving the digital transformation at their schools to increase quality and equality in learning and assessment. They are inspiring other teachers to improve learning outcomes through digital assessment. The winners represent different regions of the world, where each teacher hero has made an impact locally with their teaching and assessment of pupils and students.

CRITERIA: Teacher heroes who are:

• Driving the digital transformation to increase quality and equality in assessment
• Making their school a digital pioneer in assessment to improve learning outcomes
• Inspiring and motivating other teachers to reach pedagogical excellence with the help of digital assessment

Winners of the Dugga Teacher Award 2022: Keagan Bosch, Wembley College, South Africa; Margarida Fran�a, Escolaglobal, Portugal; and Pelle Sj�holm, Rosendalsgymnasiet, Sweden.

Read the interviews with this year�s winners below.

In your opinion, what is the best thing about being a teacher?

Providing a safe space for students, creating an environment where they can be themselves and ask questions without the fear of being shut down. Teenagers already feel highly self-conscious on a daily basis, and I enjoy creating an environment where they can leave that at the door. I love being able to teach them to question norms and do their own extra research on topics they may be a little more interested in. - Keagan Bosch, Wembley College, South Africa

Knowing that sometimes we can make a difference in a student's life or influence them positively. Every day I learn from my students and whenever they thank me or appreciate my work it is extremely rewarding. - Margarida Fran�a, Escolaglobal, Portugal

Undoubtedly, the students. There is nothing better than feeling that you are contributing to society and their future. - Pelle Sj�holm, Rosendalsgymnasiet, Sweden

What/who inspired you to become a teacher?

I had two phenomenal teachers in high school, Mrs Davidson and Mrs Maneli, my geography and history teachers. They inspired my love of learning, the environment and history. They both have a huge heart for children and a passion for driving education. They helped me realize that I wanted to be a teacher too. I have learnt so much from them. - Keagan Bosch, Wembley College, South Africa

What always inspired me was not teaching, but experimentation and laboratory activity. That led me to microbiology and later to food safety. That was the reason that brought me to escolaglobal�, where I was challenged to reconcile food safety and education. I embraced the challenge 14 years ago and today I can't imagine myself as a science teacher. - Margarida Fran�a, Escolaglobal, Portugal

I started as a sub right after high school and the job kind of seemed to agree with me. If I couldn�t be a professional musician, teaching was the only other career I could imagine for myself. It�s very much like a performance, after all. - Pelle Sj�holm, Rosendalsgymnasiet, Sweden

When you were a child, who were your idols and why?

I never had idols, but I always admired my father. It was from him that I inherited my taste for science and from him that I learned so much, even though he was not a teacher by profession. There was always something about animals or nature to teach us. He always spoke passionately and seemed to be an inexhaustible source of wisdom. Undoubtedly, these moments were decisive for me to become the teacher I am today. - Margarida Fran�a, Escolaglobal, Portugal

David Bowie. His motto was �do what you want, wear what you like and be who you want to be.� - Pelle Sj�holm, Rosendalsgymnasiet, Sweden