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CAMWS TEACHING AWARDS 2010

Kraft Award for Excellence in Secondary School Teaching: Named for CAMWS benefactor Eunice E. Kraft, this award recognizes outstanding teachers of Latin in public or private schools (middle schools included) within CAMWS territory. The honoree will receive $500, airfare to the Annual Meeting, and two nights' accommodation at the convention hotel. Nominees will be eligible for consideration for three consecutive years.
 
CAMWS Award for Excellence in College Teaching: The winner of this award will receive $500. The nominee must be a member in good standing of CAMWS, teaching classical subjects full-time at a college or university.

To Apply: The application deadline is January 29, 2010. Winners will be informed by February 23. We encourage electronic submission of as many materials as possible. Nominees who have not already been recognized through a national teaching award will be given preference. No sitting member of the CAMWS Executive Committee or of the CAMWS Subcommittee on Teaching Awards is eligible for this award.

Candidates should submit:

1.  A current CV, typed, no more than three pages and no smaller than 12-point.

2.  A maximum of three letters total from administrators and/or peer colleagues, typed or hand-written. If typed, no smaller than 12-point. Each letter should not exceed two pages.

3.  A maximum of three letters from students (preferably past students) or parents, typed or hand-written. If typed, no smaller than 12-point. Each letter should not exceed two pages.

4.  A teaching statement, typed, no more than two pages and no smaller than 12-point.

5.  For college candidates: applicants may send up to two pages summarizing their student evaluations (ideally including comparative statistics on others at their institution, if such materials are available), and a complete set of all student evaluations from one class taught in the last three years. The complete set of evaluations should not exceed 20 pages.

6.  For college candidates: syllabi of courses taught in the last one to two years, the total altogether not to exceed ten pages.

Send Applications and Supporting Documents to:

Eleni Manolaraki

University of South Florida

World Languages, Classics

CPR 107

4202 E. Fowler Avenue

Tampa, Florida 33620

Phone: (813) 846-0433

E-mail: emanolar@cas.usf.edu

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Previous Winners of the Kraft Award for Excellence in Secondary School Teaching were:

• 2009: Donald B. Holt, Jr. (St. John’s Episcopal Parish Day School, Tampa, FL)
• 2008: Amy Elifrits (Lakota East High School, Liberty Township, OH)
• 2007: Michelle Breuer Vitt (Minnehaha Academy, Eagan, MN)
• 2006: Elizabeth Z. Hall (Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts, Natchitoches, LA)
• 2005: Patsy R. Ricks (St. Andrew's Episcopal School, Ridgeland, MS)
• 2004: Betsy Dawson (East Chapel Hill High School, Chapel Hill, NC)
• 2003: Mark A. Haynes (Creighton Preparatory High School, Omaha, NE)
• 2002: Randall S. Nichols (Westminster Schools, Augusta, GA)
• 2001: Michaela Samson (Martin Luther King High School, Detroit, MI)

Previous Winners of the CAMWS Award for Excellence in College Teaching were:

• 2009: Nita Krevans (University of Minnesota)
• 2008: Liane Houghtalin (University of Mary Washington)
• 2007: Timothy F. Winters (Austin Peay State University)
• 2006: Geoffrey W. Bakewell (Creighton University)
• 2005: J. Rufus Fears (University of Oklahoma)
• 2004: John T. Kirby (Purdue University)
• 2003: Louise A. Pratt (Emory University)
• 2002: Susan O. Shapiro (Utah State University)
• 2001: George A. Sheets (University of Minnesota)