Another NUT member who slipped on a grape in a corridor and fractured her hip was given £20,000 because the school did not have a system in place ensuring the corridors were cleaned after lunch breaks.
The largest reported payout was £459,000 to a female teacher in London who was left wheelchair-bound and unable to work after suffering an injury while attempting to restrain a nine-year-old pupil.
Other substantial compensation awards included £426,000 to a teacher sprayed in the face with an aerosol and £407,000 to a primary head who developed psychiatric problems after suffering at the hands of abusive and aggressive governors.
Figures released by the NASUWT, another teaching union, showed that a member earned £35,417 after they were sacked shortly after informing their school they planned to undergo gender reassignment.
The school "raised issues such as the potential impact on the image of the school and changes to the member's appearance" and later sacked the member for alleged problems with their performance at work, the union said.
In total NASUWT teachers were handed more than £10.5 million for compensation cases completed in 2010, while NUT members earned about £2.5 million for cases about which it has published details, the Times Educational Supplement reported.
The Association of Teachers and Lecturers said it had won its members £5 million in compromise agreements and injuries claims, while Association of School and College Leaders members were awarded up to £4 million.
Chris Keates, NASUWT general secretary, said: "The level of compensation is no cause for celebration.
"Compensation is important but it is cold comfort if your health is irreparably damaged or your professional career has ended."
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