National Teacher Awards

‘Teaching gives me a sense of completeness’

‘Words cannot describe the emotions experienced by both learner and educator when a basic skill has been mastered’

‘To recognise a dedicated educational activist who led by example’

‘My learners’ achievements become my achievements’

‘I believe in talking with children in order to bring and find lasting behavioural change’

‘My learners have hijacked my heart’

‘Start small but keep moving’

‘There’s nothing as fulfilling as helping learners attain the academic goals that they’d never even thought of attempting’

‘My classroom is my valued space where I plant seeds and I treasure seeing them grow and blossom’

‘You must be the change that you want to see in your school and in your community’

Winner of the lifetime achievement award says he could not have done it without the teachers, learners and parents at his school.

Gauteng province scooped the most awards in the 2010 National Teaching Awards held last night at the Presidential Guesthouse House in Pretoria.