ACTE

Eligibility
Individuals 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 for this award. Nominees must have taught for a minimum of three but not more than five years and must be new to the teaching profession, not just new to career and technical education. Applicants may be in their sixth year of teaching at the time of application.

A nominee should have been involved in Association for Career and Technical Education activities at the state, regional and/or national levels and must have been a member of ACTE and a state association for at least the past three consecutive years.

Application Procedures
Procedure to apply for 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. Pages B and C of the nomination form (pages 1-2).
2. A description of the applicant’s position and significant accomplishments for career and technical education of no more than two pages should be pages 3-4 of the nomination dossier.
3. Support information becomes pages 5-8. This should be no more than one page each in four sections, as follows:
   • (page 5) Section A—Professional Memberships and Activities (must include dates of service).
   • (page 6) Section B—Professional Contributions (may include presentations and publications).
   • (page 7) Section C—Education and Experience Background (to include educational preparation and work experience; should include dates of service for work experience).
   • (page 8) Section D—Civic and Community Involvement (to include civic, fraternal and/or honorary memberships and community activities or contributions).
4. Letters of support, limited to a maximum of six, should be pages 9-14 of the nomination dossier. Letters should be one page in length. These letters should come from the following individuals:
   • (page 9) the nominee’s immediate supervisor
   • (page 10) an administrator
   • (page 11) a colleague or former student
   • (page 12) a community lay person
   • (pages 13-14) two additional letters of choice
5. 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” 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 on the state/Regional page. The completed materials should be submitted to the Regional Awards Committee Chairperson no later than the dates indicated by the Region.

Candidate Questions
Each region’s nominee for the national award is required to submit a short paper answering these three questions:

1. What is your philosophy of career and technical education in relation to your present position, and how do you implement that philosophy?
2. Identify and discuss critical issues facing career and technical education and your plan of action for addressing them.
3. How do you motivate and help others to become involved in our professional organization?
   

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.