Technology Leadership Excellence Award 2017
Origins
Purpose
Organizer
The annual Technology Leadership Excellence Award recognizes exceptional leaders in education who are committed to implementation of technology in instructional strategies, providing high-quality teacher professional development, and fostering students to master knowledge and key skills of the 21st century learning. We seek for visionary principals and superintendents whose exemplary work provides a model for teaching, learning and leading in the digital age.
Purpose
- Honor excellent educators and promote effective application of teaching technology.
- Honor exemplary educators in technology leadership and publicize technology leadership achievements.
- Enhance the effectiveness of technology leadership as implemented by educators.
| Schedule | |
|---|---|
| 2017.04.30 | Submission deadline |
| 2017.11.09 | 2017 Gala Night & Awards Ceremony |
Organizer
- Organizer: Taiwan Technology Leadership and Institutional Technology Development Association
- Website: http://www.ttlitda.org/
Deadline：30,Apr.,2017
Positions
Principals and vice principals of public and private elementary schools, junior high, senior high, vocational schools, junior colleges, colleges, and universities. Leaders of education administration.
Qualification- A technology leader who is exemplary of realizing the essence of technology leadership, of innovation and teamwork, and of notable contribution.
- One who is exemplary of school management and technological integration planning and lead digital natives (students) and digital immigrant (teachers) in advancing with the times.
- One who leads a teaching team in actively developing innovative Smarter Classroom teaching models that are capable of duplication, which is of notable contribution and sets an example for all educators.
- Those awarded will be invited to attend the “2017 Global Technology Leadership & Instructional Technology Summit” and will be presented with the award at that occasion.
- The achievement and contribution of the award-winning leaders will be included in the 2017 Smarter Education Yearbook as the role model for global smarter schools. They will be added into the smarter teacher exchange platform of this association and will have the opportunities to be invited and take part in smarter lecture seminars, experience sharing and smarter teacher professional development and training workshops.
Deadline：30,Apr.,2017
Process
- Submit the following documents (Appendix 3)
- Letter of recommendation (including reason for recommendation): Omit this item if applying for oneself.
- Application information
- Smarter School Operating and Development Report
- Taking Campaign Films: Please refer to the following explanations.。
- Content guidelines
- Brief introduction to the development of Smarter School in the school/school district.
- The role the leader plays in the development of Smarter School/School District and the core abilities and visions required by such endeavor.
- The most valuable experience from implementing Smarter School/School District.
- Talk about the personal journey of technology leadership.
- Recording guidelines
- Do not look straight at the camera. Limit the time for each topic to 1 minute and the time for the video to 5 minutes.
- If using a prompter, the prompter must not respond to the applicant when he/she is discussing a topic, e.g. uh-huh, yes, right, OK.
- Mind the lighting and sound recording and keep the subject and the overall image clear.
- The video must be in .mp4 format with minimal resolution of 1080p (1920x1080)