announces CALL FOR ENTRIES Everybody knows at least one great teacher. We'd like to recognize two. The Awards’ Purpose In 2012-2013, two prizes of $25,000 each will be available from the McGlothlin Foundation to award a Kindergarten – Grade 5 public school teacher and a Middle/High School public school teacher who each excel in their fields. This award is intended to recognize innovative full-time classroom teachers with at least five years of experience from core curriculum areas, and foreign language, art and music, who have not previously won major awards in education. A requirement of the awards is: $10,000.00 is to be used, within a year, for international travel to broaden the think- ing and experience of the winning teachers, further enhancing their excellence as professional educators. Who is Eligible To be eligible, teachers must be under continuing contract to one of the following public school divisions: Virginia: Alleghany Co. Amherst Co. Appomattox Co. Bath Co. Bedford Co. Bland Co. Botetourt Co. Bristol City Buchanan Co. Campbell Co. Carroll Co. Covington City Craig Co. Danville City Dickenson Co. Floyd Co. Franklin Co. Galax City Giles Co. Grayson Co. Halifax Co. Henry Co. Lee Co. Lynchburg City Martinsville City Montgomery Co. Norton City Patrick Co. Pittsylvania Co. Pulaski Co. Radford City Roanoke City Roanoke Co. Russell Co. Salem City Scott Co. Smyth Co. Tazewell Co. Washington Co. Wise Co. Wythe Co. West Virginia: McDowell Co. Mercer Co. Kentucky: Letcher Co. Floyd Co. Pike Co. Pikeville Independent Tennessee: Bristol City Johnson City Kingsport Sullivan Co. Washington Co. Staff and relatives of Blue Ridge PBS, the McGlothlin Foundation, and award judges are not eligible.
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announcesCALL FOR ENTRIES
Everybody knows at least one great teacher.
We'd like to recognize two.
The Awards’ Purpose In 2012-2013, two prizes of $25,000 each will be available from the McGlothlin Foundation to award a Kindergarten – Grade 5 public school teacher and a Middle/High School public school teacher who each excel in their fields. This award is intended to recognize innovative full-time classroom teachers with at least five years of experience from core curriculum areas, and foreign language, art and music, who have not previously won major awards in education.
A requirement of the awards is: $10,000.00 is to be used, within a year, for international travel to broaden the think-ing and experience of the winning teachers, further enhancing their excellence as professional educators.
Who is EligibleTo be eligible, teachers must be under continuing contract to one of the following public school divisions:
Scott Co.Smyth Co.Tazewell Co.Washington Co.Wise Co.Wythe Co.West Virginia:McDowell Co.Mercer Co.
Kentucky:Letcher Co.Floyd Co.Pike Co.PikevilleIndependentTennessee:Bristol CityJohnson City Kingsport Sullivan Co.Washington Co.
Staff and relatives of Blue Ridge PBS, the McGlothlin Foundation, and award judges are not eligible.
The 2013
The 2013 McGlothlin Awards for Teaching Excellence
“The McGlothlin Foundation’s goal is for the awards to inspire recipients, their students, their peers, and
indeed, their entire school. It is our intent to find the best teachers in today’s classrooms around our region. We want to recognize their fine work, reward them
for it, and by so doing inspire others to the high qualities they exemplify. Certainly, this award
will recognize, in a rather significant way, what we consider one of the most important professions -- and
one with so many unsung heroes.”
Thomas D. McGlothlin,President, McGlothlin Foundation
2012: • Thomas Foster: earth and physical science, Paul L.
Dunbar Middle School for Innovation, Lynchburg, VA. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef
• Katherine Lear: first grade, Penn Forest Elementary School, Roanoke County, VA. Ancient sites in Egypt, Italy, Greece
Montgomery County, VA. India and Nepal • David Carroll: science, Pulaski County High,
Pulaski County, VA. Northern Cascades Mountains
HistoryBeginning in a farmhouse nestled in the mountains of Buchanan County, Virginia, the McGlothlin family was sustained in their early years through farming and coal mining. As their success grew, the family business became involved in oil, gas, real estate, and financial services. The McGlothlin Foundation was created in 1998 to support worthy causes in higher education, health care, and the arts in southwest Virginia, West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and northeast Tennessee.
Since 1999, Blue Ridge PBS has directed The McGlothlin Awards for Teaching Excellence for the McGlothlin Foundation. For 46 years this community-licensed broadcast system has served education needs, from preschool through formal education to adulthood learning, via programs on-air, online and on-site. Bringing the world to our region are Blue Ridge PBS stations WBRA/Roanoke, WMSY/Marion and WSBN/ Norton, Virginia.
Former McGlothlin Award Winners
How to ApplyRound One. Classroom teachers may be nominated or may nominate themselves by submitting an electronic entry form found at blueridgepbs.org/educate/mcglothlin-awards-for-teaching-excellence and the elements listed below. All entry materials must be in PDF format and sent electronically to [email protected]. Candidates must agree to a background check.The following elements should be electronically submitted no later than 5:00 p.m. October 19, 2012:Resume or curriculum vitae that lists the nominee’s
• education history• employment history• continuing professional development• awards/honors• regional, state, national, international presentations• volunteer service to the community
Three letters of recommendation, forwarded from the reference.(Suggested sources: principals, supervisors, parents, colleagues, current or former students.)
Nominees must provide a personal statement about their teaching (limit is two (2) typewritten pages, 12 point font, 1 inch margins) that demonstrates how they fulfill the criteria of the McGlothlin Awards. Please address these important points:
How do you bring the world to your classroom?Where would you choose to spend $10,000 of your award for international travel? How would this enhance learning for your students?
Round Two. Each semifinalist must electronically submit a standards-based lesson plan (limit is 4 pages) and send us a video of themselves teaching that lesson to their students. Semi-finalists are asked to grant rights to publish their lessons and/or use their videos on websites, in print or on the air. DO NOT SEND A VIDEO AND LESSON until you are notified you are a semifinalist.Round Three. As the final step in this process, the judges will observe the six finalists’ classrooms and conduct interviews with the finalists and their spokespersons.
What the Judges will be EvaluatingThe following dispositions are observed throughout the judging process:• Teaching for at least 5 years, with plans to
continue in the teaching profession• How the travel portion of the award will help
“bring the world” to the classroom• Commitment to the teaching profession and to
continuing professional development (for oneself, mentoring other educators, and/or encouraging young people to become teachers)
• Inspiring students, other educators, and the community to value and enjoy learning
• Meeting the diverse needs of learners• Promoting a high level of student engagement and
achievement• Personal intellectual, ethical, moral, and social
standards that inspire the nominees’ students to lives of service and social responsibility
The JudgesThe McGlothlin Foundation and Blue Ridge PBS are grateful to these institutions for loaning us the expertise of their professional education leaders for the judging of awards beginning in 1999:
Emory & Henry CollegeFerrum College
Hollins UniversityKing College
Radford University Roanoke College
Virginia Intermont College
VA TechBristol City Schools
Craig County SchoolsLynchburg City SchoolsRoanoke City Schools
Roanoke County SchoolsVirginia Department of Education
Timeline Summary 10/19/12 Due by 5 p.m. Round One deadline to electronically submit entry