The degree to which science teachers who won the Queen Rania of Jordan Award for Distinguished Teacher achieve the standards of educational excellence and creativity

The study aimed to reveal the degree to which the teachers who won the Queen Rania of Jordan Award for Distinguished Teacher achieved the standards of excellence in light of the standards approved by the award. The study adopted an analytical descriptive approach, and the sample consisted of all the teachers who won the Queen Rania of Jordan Award for Distinguished Teacher from 2013 to 2021, numbered 180 male and female teachers. To achieve the objectives, the performance evaluation tool adopted in the award was used, including specific criteria, and each criterion had several indicators, as its validity and reliability were verified before being officially approved by the Association of Queen Rania Award for Excellence in Education. The results of the analysis of the excellence standards among the sample members showed that the degree of their achievement to the standards in general was moderate, and the results also showed that there were statistically significant differences at the level α = 0.05 between the arithmetic means of the achievement degrees of standards of excellence among science teachers who won the Queen Rania of Jordan Award for Distinguished Teacher due to specialization and in favour of science teachers who won the award, while the results showed that there were no statistically significant differences due to gender.