To
celebrate five years of American Language
Review and the launch of Language
Magazine, we are proud to inaugurate the
annual Language Magazine Teacher of
the Year Award.
The
Language Magazine Teacher
of the Year Honoree will be announced in June 2002
and featured on the cover of that issue. The Honoree
will be chosen by a panel (to be announced) of respected
language educators.
The Language Magazine
Teacher of the Year will be flown to London, England
for a week’s holiday! Based in a superb Georgian
period Bed & Breakfast mansion in central London,
the Honoree will visit many historic and language-related
sites including:
Shakespeare's
home in Stratford-upon-Avon
The
English-Speaking Union in London's historic Mayfair
district
Hampstead,
hilltop home for many of Londo'ns literati including
Keats, Kingsley Amis and D. H. Lawrence
Oxford,
featured in novels from Jude the Obscure;
to "Inspector Morse"
How
to Nominate a Teacher for the Language Magazine
Teacher of the Year Award
If
you would like to nominate a teacher for the Language
Magazine
Teacher
of the Year Award, please follow these instructions:
1.
Write out your nomination (500-1000 words) explaining
why your nominee should be considered as the Language
Magazine Teacher of the Year. Be sure to include evidence
of the contribution he/she has made to language learning
with examples of how the teacher nominee has affected
learners’ lives. Also, make sure that you include
the nominee’s full name and the institution he/she
is associated with. Remember that nominees can be teachers
of any language, not just English.
2.
Nominations should be sent to the Editor of Language
Magazine via email (preferred) at editor@languagemagazine.com.
Nominations can be attached as Word Documents or pasted
into the body of a message. Please include a photograph.
Nominations can also be faxed to (310)
657-7760.
Nominations can be mailed to: The Editor, Language
Magazine, The Magazine of Communication
& Education, 8533 Sunset Blvd., Suite 202, Los Angeles,
CA, 90069
3.
Each month, Language Magazine will feature a
roundup of some of the nominations we have received.
Just because your nomination has not been featured does
not mean they are not under consideration.
4.
Nominations must be received at Language Magazine
offices on or before March 31, 2002. Nominations received
after this date cannot be considered.
RULES
AND CONDITIONS: The Language Magazine Teacher
of the Year Award is open to all schools in the USA
and Puerto Rico teaching English and / or other languages
to students in grades K-12 and / or to adult learners
of English and / or other languages.
Employees and family members of Language Media, LLC
and persons involved in this promotion and their families
shall not be eligible to be nominated in the competition.
The ten finalists will be those language teachers nominated
who have shown through their entries that they have
made the greatest difference to the linguistic abilities
of their students. The judges’ decision will be
final.
Entries must be received by the closing date for entries
– March 31, 2002.
An “entry” is a completed, signed entry form.
Competition website can be used to download entry forms.
Entries cannot be returned.
Nominated language teachers and their entries may be
used by Language Magazine in pre and post-publicity
relating to the competition. They and their entries
could be featured in Language Magazine, the competition
website, in interviews and photographs or other media.
Prizes are non-exchangeable and non-transferable. No
cash alternative will be given.
This full set of the rules can be sent on written request.
Copyright in any original work will remain with the
owner.
Language will notify the 10 finalists of their selection
by phone and email immediately following the judging.
The overall winner will subsequently be notified by
Language prior to the public announcement which will
be published in Language Magazine in the June 2002 issue.
The Language Magazine Teacher of the Year will be invited
to a prize-giving ceremony in London following the announcement
of the overall winner. The competition organizers will
pay for round trip coach air transportation between
major (“gateway”) U.S. airport nearest the
winner’s residence and London and for 7-consecutive-night
bed-and-breakfast accommodation.
Following the announcement of the overall winner, all
teachers that were finalists will be sent a certificate
of merit.
The Award is open only to teachers employed in the USA
and Puerto Rico between September 1 2001 and May 31,
2002.
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