Mrs Bovill is one of six Tasmanian teachers and school leaders who were named as finalists in the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership awards on the eve of World Teachers' Day today.

The winners will be announced in December.

Another prize-winning teacher is Sally Fowler, who was recognised with an Australian Council for Educational Leaders Tasmanian award for excellence in educational leadership on Wednesday night.

The kinder to grade 10 literacy leader with the East Tamar Federation of schools first stepped into a classroom in 1984 as an early childhood teacher.

Twenty-eight years later she has progressed to teaching teachers.

Mrs Fowler still goes into the classroom, but works more with the teachers to get the best out of them.

"You take up teaching thinking you can make a difference and it's that belief that you can do things that could make a difference that makes you do it, if you didn't have that you would probably think it would be too hard," Mrs Fowler said.

"My role is still to make that difference, but it's now to help other teachers make that difference."

Mrs Fowler said one of the most important aspects of teaching was collaboration with other teachers and her role now allowed that to occur across the five federation schools.