You are shaping America's future by grooming tomorrow's leaders and helping students develop their academic talents today. To honor and celebrate innovative educators like you, PBS has launched a new annual PBS Teachers Innovation Awards program to showcase best practices in support of the growth and advancement of the teaching profession. PBS and its local stations are calling all preK-12 educators who inspire and engage students through innovative classroom techniques to enter the PBS Teachers Innovation Awards program by March 12 for a chance to win:
- behind-the-scenes trip to the Annual PBS Showcase to see sneak previews of PBS programs, meet producers, and attend premiere events
- bag full of PBS gifts including award-winning PBS programs in digital formats and much more
- free enrollment in an online facilitated professional development course from PBS TeacherLine
Whether teaching students physics with rocket launchers, social studies through historical re-enactments, or literature by inviting students to create digital stories, you are innovating and making a difference in the lives of students every day, and you deserve recognition. PreK-12 educators of all levels, including classroom teachers, library media specialists, and homeschooling parents, are invited to enter the PBS Teachers Innovation Awards program.
To enter, submit a 200-word essay demonstrating why you are an innovative educator, and include a video or photograph showing how you inspire students. A panel of PBS TeacherLine® course facilitators, expert teachers with years of classroom teaching experience and who've earned master's degrees in education, will evaluate the entries. Fifty winners will be selected based on their level of innovation and effectiveness, among other criteria.
All of the winners will have the opportunity to partner with PBS and local stations as leaders in classroom innovation, and have the opportunity to contribute their ideas and provide feedback on PBS programming and educational services. The winning entries will be featured on PBS Teachers (pbsteachers.org), the Web portal to PBS' preK-12 educational services and a searchable library of more than 9,000 free local and national standards-based instructional resources, including on-demand video and interactive games.
For more information on content rules and criteria, or to enter, go to http://www.pbs.org/teachers/innovators/. Entries will be accepted until March 12. Winners will be announced on April 5.
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