No violence stance bags teacher top prize

Hanan Al-Hroub, a Palestinian teacher who won the $1 million Global Teacher award for her innovative approach of using play to counter violent behaviour flashes the sign for victory as she arrives in the West Bank city of Jericho from Jordan on March 16, 2016. - AFP

PALESTINIAN teacher Hanan Al Hroub is the winner of the Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize 2016, an award that carries a USD1mil (RM4.1mil) prize.

Hanan has beaten over 8,000 teachers from 148 countries who were nominated or applied for the competition dubbed the “Nobel prize of teaching”.