MIT Teacher Award
MIT Inspirational Teacher Award 
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The MIT Inspirational Teacher Award recognizes outstanding secondary school teachers who inspire in their students a love of learning, encourage them to pursue excellence, and give them the skills and enthusiasm they need to make a positive difference in the world.

Attention: MIT Students
The nomination period for the MIT Inspirational Teacher Award for 2012 ended on Friday, December 16, 2011. If you have a teacher you wish to nominate for the MIT Inspirational Teacher Award, please wait until the next round in the fall of 2012. In the meantime, you might want to let the teacher know of your gratitude.

"We can build better bridges between K-12 education and college, and at MIT we want to do all we can to help."

Susan Hockfield
President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Excerpt from President Hockfield's testimony to The Secretary of Education's
Commission on the Future of Higher Education


20 March 2006

Sam Koski (center) receives his 2011 MIT Inspirational Teacher Award from Angela Chang '97, his former student who nominated him for the award.

Sam Koski (center) receives his 2011 MIT Inspirational Teacher Award from Angela Chang '97, the former student who nominated him for the award.



33 Educators Named MIT Inspirational Teachers for 2011