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Purpose

To recognize teachers who are providing outstanding career and technical education programs for youth and/or adults in their respective fields and communities. Recipients of this award must have made significant contributions toward innovative, unique and novel programs that are serving to improve and promote career and technical education.

Eligibility

Individual members who are currently employed as full-time classroom/laboratory teachers in a career and technical education program other than at the baccalaureate level are eligible recipients for this award. Nominees must be classroom/laboratory teachers at the time of selection as a regional winner. Contributions and achievements on which the nomination is based should have been made within the past ten years.

The nominee also should have been involved in some capacity in Association for Career and Technical Education activities at the regional and/or national level and must have been a member of ACTE and a state association for at least the past five consecutive years.

Nominees recognized by persons outside their immediate field of endeavor and persons who have made contributions to education outside their field on state and national levels will be highly considered. Contributions to civic and philanthropic causes also will be considered. This award does not exclude any classroom teacher from nomination for any other ACTE award.

Application Procedures

Each nominee shall submit a nomination dossier consisting of the following:

1. Forms B-1 and B-2 (pages 1-2) 
2. A program description of no more than two pages should be pages 4-5 of the nomination dossier. This description should address the following: the program’s innovative or unique characteristics, its impact on students and the community, and the teacher’s effectiveness.
3. Support information becomes pages 6-9. This should include no more than one page each in four sections, as follows:
4. • Section A — Professional Memberships and Activities (must include dates of service).
   • Section B — Professional Contributions (may include presentations and publications).
   • Section C — Education and Experience Background (to include educational preparation and work experience; should include dates of service for work experience).
   • Section D — Civic and Community Involvement (to include civic, fraternal and/or honorary memberships and community activities or contributions).
5. Letters of support, limited to a maximum of six, should be pages 10-15 of the nomination dossier. Letters should be one page in length. These letters should come from the following individuals:
6. • The nominee’s immediate supervisor.
   • An administrator.
   • A current or former student.
   • A parent or community lay person.
   • Two additional letters of choice.
7. One photograph of the nominee. The photograph is used for publicity purposes only.

Applicants should submit information written in the 3rd person context rather than the 1st. Events should be dated and listed with the most recent submitted first. All materials must be word processed or typewritten on 8-1/2 X 11 sheets with 3/4" margins, left, right, top and bottom.

All materials must be submitted at the same time as a complete package. No supplementary materials may be submitted; items not outlined above will be discarded before judging. All procedures must be followed for an application to be considered. Applications that do not follow these procedures will be rejected and returned.

The completed materials should be submitted to the Regional Awards Committee Chairperson no later than the dates indicated by the Region.

Interviews

The regional nominees for ACTE Teacher of the Year will be interviewed by the ACTE Awards Committee on Wednesday, December 12, 2007. Nominees will be evaluated on their knowledge and interpretation of critical issues in career and technical education, philosophy of career and technical education, ability to communicate and poise and presence. The interviews account for 65 of the possible 165 points.

Deadline

Materials for each regional winner must be received at ACTE headquarters by September 12, 2008. Deadlines for the submission of state winners to regional competitions are listed on the State/Regional pages.