Looking to 2020
2018 Maine State Teacher of the Year, Kaitlin Young, Music Educator
Every outstanding teacher knows someone who would make a great representative for education. The person who teaches down the hall or at another grade level or perhaps someone you’ve watched from a distance at district workshops. Whoever it is, do they inspire students, plant seeds for their colleagues, and/or take on leadership roles with a clear voice? Here is your chance to honor them and communicate how important they are to the profession. Consider nominating them for the 2019 County Teacher of the Year. If they are selected they will be considered for the honor of 2020 Maine Teacher of the Year.
NOMINATION
Teachers may be nominated by students, parents, teaching colleagues, principals, superintendents or anyone from the community who wants to honor an outstanding educator.
Publicly recognizing outstanding teachers encourages students to think about teaching as a career, and provides the community a sense of pride and investment in their teachers who are making a positive impact on student’s lives every day.
To nominate an outstanding teacher as a 2019 County Teacher of the Year CLICK HERE!
Deadline: MONDAY, 4 FEBRUARY 2019, 5:00 p.m.
About the Teacher of the Year Program
The Maine Teacher of the Year program starts with your nomination!
To be considered, the teacher must:
- Hold the appropriate professional certification for their teaching position;
- Be employed by a Maine public school, including a Career and Technical Education center, public charter school; or be employed by a publicly supported secondary school (a private school that enrolls 60 percent or more publicly funded students, sometimes referred to as “town academies” and
- Have been teaching for a minimum of 5 years – 3 of which are in Maine.
- Be actively teaching students at least fifty percent of full-time employment at the time of nomination and during the year of recognition.
- Not have been a County Teacher of the Year within the past 5 years.
From those nominees, one exemplary teacher from each of the 16 Maine counties will be selected as a 2019 Maine County Teacher of the Year. From the 16 County Teachers of the Year, 8 semi-finalists are selected. The field is narrowed to 3 state finalists, one of whom will be announced as the 2020 Maine State Teacherof the Year at a surprise school assembly in the fall of 2019.
The Maine Teacher of the Year program is administered by Educate Maine in partnership with the Maine Department of Education. The Maine State Teacher of the Year represents Maine at the national level and becomes eligible for the National Teacher of the Year award.
Please contact Dolly Sullivan at Educate Maine if you have questions or want more information on the process.
Please don’t miss this opportunity to honor and recognize a great Maine Teacher!
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