AP State Best Teachers Awards 2026 Selection List

School Education – Celebration of Teachers’ Day (GURUPUJOTHSAVAM) on 5^th September 2026 – Selection of Best Teachers for State Awards – Guidelines, Eligibility, Schedule – Instructions – Issued – Regarding Procs.Rc.No3310670/TRNG-CSE/2026, dt:02-07-2026

Ref:

1. G.O.Rt. No.434, Education (Ser. IV) Dept., dt: 23.08.2000.

2. G.O.Rt. No.500, Education (Trg.I) Dept., dt: 02.09.2002

The attention of all the Regional Joint Directors of School Education, District Educational Officers and Additional Project Coordinators, Samagra Shiksha in the State is invited to the references cited above. The Government of Andhra Pradesh has been celebrating Teacher’s Day (GURUPUJOTSAVAM) every year on 5th September, the Birth Anniversary of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, former President of India, to honour the Best Teachers/Meritorious Teachers with State Awards. Further, the guidelines, timeline, and procedure for the selection of teachers for the State Awards–2026 are provided below for information and necessary action.

This scheme is applicable to regular teachers working in government schools across all managements, such as Government, Zilla Parishad, Mandal Parishad, Municipal, Aided Schools, APMS, APSWREIS, APTWREIS, ITDA, APREIS, KGBV, and DIETs under the Department of School Education.

The District Educational Officers in the State are informed that, in order to ensure a transparent, merit-based and evidence-driven selection process, applications shall be considered in Offline (District level) and online (Through LEAP App at the State level). The selection will be based on objective data and digital portfolios, thereby eliminating subjectivity and ensuring that all teachers, irrespective of their geographical location, have equitable access to recognition.

Further, they are requested to scrutinise the proposals by the District Selection Committee, duly following the procedural guidelines, timelines, and submit the same with specific recommendations to the Director of School Education, Andhra Pradesh, Amaravati.

Eligibility criteria of Teachers for considering the State Awards:

Main Considerations for Selection of Teachers / Head Masters / Teacher Educators:

1. Special Work done for raising the Standard of Education.
2. Inculcating Interest in extracurricular activities among the students.
3. Educational innovative writings and development of learning materials useful to the students.

• Teachers / Head Masters / Teacher Educators who have completed 10 years of minimum Service.
• Normally, retired teachers are not eligible for the awards, but those who have served for part of the academic year may be considered if they otherwise fulfil the conditions.
• Teachers / Head Masters / Teacher Educators who have been selected for State Awards earlier are not eligible.
• Teachers / Head Masters / Teacher Educators who have charges/disciplinary proceedings/criminal cases are not eligible.
• The District Selection Committee should form the verification teams to verify the facts/information provided by the applicant.
• In addition to the above categories, the Government have decided to felicitate certain outstandingly performing teachers.
• Criteria based on performance: Under this, teachers will be awarded marks on criteria based on performance e.g. initiatives to improve learning outcomes, innovative experiments undertaken, organization of extra and co-curricular activities, use of Teaching

The Nominations for the selection of teachers to the State Awards-2026 have been invited for the following criteria.

1. Self-Nomination.
2. Recommended by five fellow Teachers.
3. Performance-based selection of teachers through the LEAP App at the State

• Self-Nomination: The applications are invited from all teacher categories working in Government, Zilla Parishad, Mandal Parishad, Municipal, Aided Schools, APMS, APSWREIS, APTWREIS, ITDA, APREIS, KGBV, and DIETs (Lecturers/Senior Lecturers) under the Department of School Education
• Recommended by Five Fellow Teachers: Any teacher who is eligible for the State award but has not applied himself/herself, in that case, five Fellow teachers can nominate that teacher (he/she) for the State Award. Keeping in view of his / her performance, achievements, and the evaluation parameters shown for state awards in the proforma (Annexure-III).
• Performance-based selection of Teachers through LEAP APP at the state level: Shortlisting the best-performing teachers based on Attendance, results, and Enrollment through LEAP App. The list will be communicated to the Districts for the District Selection Committee to select the shortlisted teachers.

Note: The District Selection Committee should recommend the teacher in any one of the above said three award criteria only.

The Selection Process Timeline – offline:

Selection process for State Awards: The following committees have been constituted for scrutinising/ shortlisting the applications in both Offline (District level) and Online (through LEAP app at State level) received from the teachers for selecting the best teachers to the State Awards – 2026.

DIVISIONAL SELECTION COMMITTEE:

The recommendations by the Divisional Selection Committee regarding the selected teachers should not be more than 24 (in the following Three types of selection categories (Cadre-wise)) and submit the self-nomination form, Certificate of antecedents & character, approval copy by the District Selection Committee, marks awarded by the Committee along with their recommendations, one JPJ model photo and citations not exceeding (10) lines on each selected teacher to the District Selection Committee i.e., District Educational Officers concerned. Submit the applications in the following category wise from all managements.

DISTRICT SELECTION COMMITTEE:

The recommendations by the District Selection Committee regarding the selected teachers should not be more than 8 (in the following Three types of selection categories (Cadre-wise)) and submit the self-nomination form, Certificate of antecedents & character, approval copy by the District Selection Committee, marks awarded by the Committee along with their recommendations, one JPJ model photo and citations not exceeding (10) lines on each selected teacher to the State Level Committee i.e., Director of School Education, Andhra Pradesh, Amaravati. Submit the applications in the following category wise from all managements.

The FINAL SELECTION will be made by the following State Selection Committee from among the names recommended by the District Selection Committee.

STATE SELECTION COMMITTEE:

• The State Level Committee selects the teachers for “State Awards” from the Selection lists submitted by the District Selection Committee, duly limiting the No. of awards category wise.

Celebration of District Level Best Teacher Awards:

Annexure – I (Self Nomination Form)

Annexure – II (Criteria Form For Evaluation)

Annexure – III (Recommending the teachers by the five Fellow Teachers)

Certificate of Antecedents & Character

DSE Proceedings

School Education – Request to relieve the selected Awardees to attend the Celebrations for the State Beast Teacher Awards-2025 to be held at A-Convention Center, Labbipet, Vijayawada on 05.09.2025 at 04.00 PM – instructions – issued – Reg  Memo.No.ESE02-29026/5/2025-TRNG-CSE-Part(5), dt.#ApprovedDate#

Ref:

1. G.O.Rt.No.434, Education Education (Ser.IV) Dept., dt:23.08.2000.

2. G.O.Rt.No.500, Education (Trg.I) Dept., dt:02.09.2002.

3. This office Procs.Rc.No.ESE02-29026/5/2025-TRNG-CSE, Dt.31-07- 2025

4. This office Procs.Rc.No.ESE02-29026/5/2025-TRNG-CSE-part(2), dt:12-08-2025

5. G.O.Rt.No.271, School Education (General) Dept., dt:14.08.2024.

All the District Educational Officers in the State are invited to the references read above. The Government of Andhra Pradesh will celebrate Teachers’ Day (Gurupujotsavam) on 5^th September, 2025, 04.00 PM at A-Convention Center, Labbipet, Vijayawada, honoring meritorious Teachers for State Best Teacher Awards – 2025 on the birth anniversary of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

In this connection, after scrutinizing the nominations submitted by all the DEOs in the State, the State selection Committee have been selected and finalised total 78 teachers from the School Education Department to honor the teachers for the State Teacher Awards-2025. (list attached in annexure)

In this context, the Accommodation with meals arrangements has provided for the State Best Teacher Awardees for 1 (One) day i.e., 04.09.2025 at YES-J Centre, for Excellence, besides ALIET, ITI College Road, ALC Campus, Vijayawada. (Contact to Sri Vidya Sagar Reddy, Superintendent (9505000399), Sri Prasad reddy, JA (9676996528).

Therefore, all the District Educational Officers in the state are hereby instructed to relieve the teachers on 04.09.2025 listed in the annexure, allowing each of them to be accompanied by one family member (1+1) only. They are directed to report to the accommodation center at 6 AM on 04.09.2025, before the following concerned officer (zone wise) to participate in the celebration of Dr. Sarvepalli Radha krishnan’s birth anniversary and to honor with the Sate Best Teacher Award-2025 on 05.09.2025 at A- Convention Center, Labbipet, Vijayawada.

Each district committee recommended six names, from which 78 teachers were selected for the awards. The selection process was divided into three categories:

1. Teachers applying directly for the awards.
2. Teachers being recommended by other educators.
3. Selection based on performance through the LEAP app.

Additionally, 15 teachers from polytechnic institutions have been selected for the State Best Teacher Awards. The awards will be presented to the selected teachers on September 5th during a ceremony in Vijayawada.

The attention of all the District Educational Officers in the State are invited to the references cited, the Government of Andhra Pradesh has been celebrating Teacher’s Day (GURUPUJOTHSAVAM) every year to honour the Best Teachers/Meritorious Teachers for (1) State Awards, (2) National Foundation for Teachers Welfare Award (NFTW), (3) Recommended by Fellow Teachers on the eve of the Birth Day on 5th September of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the former President of India as per Government orders issued vide reference 1st and 2nd cited. Further, all the District Educational Officers in the State are requested to scrutinize the proposals by the District Selection Committee duly following the procedural guidelines, Timelines and submit the same with specific recommendations to the Director of School Education, Andhra Pradesh, Amaravati.

This scheme is applicable to regular teachers working in government schools across managements such as – Zilla Parishad, Mandal Parishad, Municipal, Aided Schools, APMS, APSWREIS, APTWREIS, APREIS, KGBV, and DIETs under the Department of School Education.

Eligibility of Teachers for Awards:

1. The nominations for awards will be called from Primary Schools, Upper Primary Schools, High Schools and Government DIETs and other Managements related to School Education.
2. The teacher not apply for awards, but Recommended by Fellow
3. Main Considerations for Selection of Teachers / Head Masters / Teacher Educators:
4. Special Work done for raising the Standard of Educators.
5. Inculcating Interest in extracurricular activities among the students
6. Educational innovating writing useful to the students.
7. Teachers / Head Masters / Teacher Educators who have completed 15 years of minimum Service.
8. Teachers / Head Masters / Teacher Educators who have selected for State Awards earlier are not eligible.
9. Teachers / Head Masters / Teacher Educators who have charges/disciplinary proceedings/criminal cases are not eligible.
10. The recommendations regarding the selected teachers, which should not be more than one teacher from each category, shall be sent to the office of the Director of School Education duly filling the Certificate of antecedents and character, marks awarded to each nomination.
11. In addition to the above categories, the Government have decided to felicitate the certain outstandingly performing.
12. The District Educational Officer shall place the proposals received through proper channel i.e Mandal Educational Officer and Deputy Educational Officers and Principals of DIETS and Recommended by the Fellow teachers before the District Selection Committee for Selection of the Best Teachers.
13. Incomplete and defective proposals shall be summarily be rejected by the District Selection If any District Committee sends particulars of more than one candidate in each category in deviation of the above instructions, all the nominations from those Districts will be rejected.
14. Recommendations along with marks awarded by the Committee, which are signed by the District Selection Committee, proposals which are not having a gist of each item in proforma and the proposals without the Photographs not considered for Awards.
15. The District Selection Committee should form the verification teams for verification of the facts / information provided by the applicant.
16. Evaluation / marking of the applicants as per the Annexures.
17. Certificate by District Selection Committee: the District Selection Committee shall certify that marks have been awarded after due verification of the facts.
18. After the detailed evaluation of the applications, DSC will shortlist and forward to State Selection Committee.
19. Criteria based on performance: The teachers will be awarded marks on criteria based on his / her performance i.e increase in student enrollment, initiatives to improve learning outcomes, innovative experiments undertaken, organization of extra and co-curricular activities, use of Teaching Learning Material, Social mobility, ensuring experiential learning, unique ways to ensure physical education to students etc.
20. The District Selection Committee should recommend the teacher either State award or NFTW award.

The District Selection Committee shall recommend not more than one teacher from the following each category( Self Nomination) to the State Awards as

 The Schedule of activities shall be as follows State and NFTW Awards:

The Selection process Timeline – offline:

Selection Process Timeline – Online

Selection process for State Awards:

 The following committees have been constituted for scrutinising/ shortlisting the applications in both Offline (District level) and Online (State level) received from the teachers for the State Best Teacher Awards 2025.

DIVISIONAL SELECTION COMMITTEE

DISTRICT SELECTION COMMITTEE: