ACTE

Recipients of this award must have made significant contributions toward training, motivating, and inspiring their peers and students to become involved in programs and projects that benefit their communities.

Eligibility
Individual members who are currently employed as full-time classroom/laboratory teachers in a career and technical education program are eligible recipients for this award. Nominees must be classroom/laboratory teachers at the time of nomination and winner must be a classroom/laboratory teacher at the time of award presentation. Contributions and achievements on which the nomination is based should have been made within the past five years. The nominee also should have been involved in some capacity in Association for Career and Technical Education activities at the state, regional and/or national level and must have been a member of ACTE and a state association for at least the past three consecutive years.

Application Procedures
Procedures for applying to this award have changed. Please check the 2010 Awards Booklet for more information.

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

1. Forms B and C of the nomination form (pages 1-2)
2. Support information becomes pages 3-7.
   • Section A—A description of no more than two pages of the applicant’s community service work and/or significant accomplishments in the area of training, motivating and inspiring peers and/or students to become involved in projects benefiting their community.
   • Section B—Community Service Awards or Acknowledgements (should include dates of presentation and organization names).
   • Section C—Community Service and Civic Organization Memberships.
   • Section D—Professional Memberships and Professional Association Activities (must include dates of service).
3. Letters of support, limited to a maximum of six, should be pages 8-13 of the nomination dossier. Letters should be one page in length. These letters should come from the following individuals:
   • the nominee’s immediate supervisor
   • an administrator
   • a colleague or former student
   • a community lay person
   • two additional letters of choice
4. One photograph of the nominee. The photograph is used for publicity purposes only.

Applicants should submit information written in the third-person context, rather than the first. 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-inch 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.

Candidate Questions
All regional nominees are required to submit a short paper answering these three questions:

1. What is your philosophy of teaching career and technical education?
2. Identify and discuss two challenges you faced in implementing community service projects and how you met the challenges.
3. What do you see as the connection/benefit of community service to career and technical education?

Deadline
Materials for each regional winner must be received at ACTE headquarters by September 15, 2010. Deadlines for submission of state winners to regional competitions are listed on the state/Regional page.