The winning teacher is chosen by a selection committee from all the state schools around the country.
They are then introduced to the American public in a ceremony, before being given a year away from classroom work in order to travel the country as a spokesperson for the profession.
Located on the Emporia State University campus, the Hall of Fame includes a gallery of honored teachers, a Wall of Fame, and a miniatures display of classrooms through the centuries.
The Deutscher Lehrerpreis[1] has been given to teachers and educational projects in Germany since 2009.
It was created and is organized by the Vodafone foundation [2] and the German philological association [3] and is supported by German education researchers like Prof. Dr. Jürgen Baumert who is the vice-president of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and who conducted the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) study [4] and German politicians like chancellor Angela Merkel.