Maggie MacDonnell
{{short description|Canadian educator}}
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| occupation = Educator, Development petitioner{{cite web | last=Afp | first=Ap | title=Canadian teacher wins $1m global prize in Dubai | website=Arab News | date=2017-03-20 | url=https://www.arabnews.com/node/1071306/offbeat | access-date=2020-02-27}}
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Global Teacher Prize (2017){{cite web | last=Telegram | first=The | title=Global educational award winner to address teachers in St. John's | website=The Telegram | date=2019-04-22 | url=http://www.thetelegram.com/news/local/global-educational-award-winner-to-address-teachers-in-st-johns-304280/ | access-date=2020-02-27}}
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Maggie MacDonnell is a Canadian educator and development practitioner who became the third recipient of the teaching prize award Global Teacher Prize, a $1 million award from Varkey Foundation.{{cite web | title=Canadian school teacher wins $1M global teacher prize beating out thousands of applicants | website=CBS News | date=2017-03-20 | url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/maggie-macdonnell-global-teacher-prize-salluit-community/ | access-date=2020-02-27}} The prize was presented by the prime minister and vice president of the UAE, and the ruler of Emirate of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Maggie is teaching students at Salluit village, where temperature often drops as low as −13 °C to −25 °C in winter.{{cite web | title=Maggie MacDonnell | website=Varkey Foundation | date=2015-03-15 | url=https://www.globalteacherprize.org/winners/maggie-macdonnell/ | access-date=2020-02-27 | archive-date=2018-08-18 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180818084139/https://www.globalteacherprize.org/winners/maggie-macdonnell/ | url-status=dead }}{{cite web | last=Wang | first=Amy X. | title=How to be a better teacher, according to Global Teacher Prize winner Maggie MacDonnell | website=Quartz | date=2017-07-20 | url=https://qz.com/1020830/how-to-be-a-better-teacher-according-to-global-teacher-prize-winner-maggie-macdonnell/ | access-date=2020-02-27}}
Biography
Maggie was born and raised in Nova Scotia of eastern Canada,{{cite web | last=John | first=Merlin | title=Top teacher stands up for indigenous people | website=BBC News | date=2017-07-26 | url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-40597541 | access-date=2020-02-27}} and has completed master's degree from a Canadian university. She works with Congolese refugees for their rehabilitation and Tanzanian HIV/AIDS activists to counsel socially affected patients. In an isolated area of Arctic Canada, Maggie teaches student "especially girls" at higher secondary level and boys aged between 13 and 18.{{cite web | last=Clarke | first=Kelly | title=Maggie MacDonnell: The teacher who made kids do-gooders | website=Khaleej Times | date=2017-03-20 | url=https://www.khaleejtimes.com/news/education/maggie-macdonnell-the-teacher-who-made-kids-do-gooders | access-date=2020-02-27}} Before serving as a teacher, the country's isolated area was claimed to had been suffered with social inequality. She according to the News media restored the "act of kindness" to some extent which brought improvements in Canadian students where she teaches.{{cite web | title=Maggie MacDonnell feels 'disbelief' after Global Teacher Prize win | website=BBC News | date=2017-03-24 | url=http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39371693 | access-date=2020-02-27}}{{cite web | agency=Agence France-Presse | title=Canadian wins $1m Global Teacher Prize for work with Inuit students | website=the Guardian | date=2017-03-19 | url=http://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/mar/19/maggie-macdonnell-global-teacher-prize-canadian-inuit-school | access-date=2020-02-27}}
Social events
Maggie was initially working in Sub-Saharan Africa before traveling to Salluit where she teaches students for over six years. She conducted several social awareness programs aimed to educate young people who were the victims of depression, alcoholism and drug addiction. Before her arrival to the Inuit village, there was a drop recorded in its education system. She ran programs for young women at school level that prompted up to 500% of raise in enrollment of girls at Inuit schools.{{cite web | last=Crowcroft | first=Orlando | title=Canadian teacher Maggie MacDonnell wins $1m prize for work in remote Arctic communities | website=International Business Times UK | date=2017-03-19 | url=https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/canadian-teacher-maggie-mcdonnell-wins-1m-prize-work-remote-artic-communities-1612470 | access-date=2020-02-27}}
Recognition
She was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2017.{{Cite journal |last=Jones |first=Hettie |date=1993 |title=How She Recognized Her Last Fling When She Found It |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3346727 |journal=Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=93 |doi=10.2307/3346727 |issn=0160-9009|url-access=subscription }}
External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXSPDcTVgGs Maggie MacDonnell - Global Teacher Prize 2017 - Winner] on YouTube
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Category:Canadian women educators
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Category:Recipients of the Global Teacher Prize
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