Awards

Description of the TEAI/ITEEA Awards

TEAI/ITEEA Teacher of the Year, (both Middle School and High School levels awarded)

Purpose: This award is an acknowledgment of an outstanding technology teacher who keeps abreast of developments in technology education and uses this knowledge to constantly upgrade classroom curriculum or activities. This individual is also active in professional organizations, and maintains a positive rapport with students, faculty, administration, and the industrial community.  Eligible teachers must have completed at least 5 years of teaching experience.

TEAI/ITEEA Program of the Year, (both Middle School and High School levels awarded)

Purpose: This award is an acknowledgment of a superior technology education program which provides fundamental knowledge about the development of technology, its effect on people, the environment and culture, and draws its instructional contents from one or more of the following systems: communication, energy utilization, production/manufacturing, and transportation.

TEAI Administrator of the Year

Purpose: This award is an acknowledgment of an outstanding administrator of technology education who has given years of service to his/her profession by contributing publications, presentations, and leadership at the local, state, and national levels.

TEAI Technology Education New Teacher of the Year Award

Purpose: This award is an acknowledgment of an outstanding “new” teacher who is providing his/her students the most current curriculum available and staying professionally active so personal growth continues.  Eligible teachers must have no more than 5 years of teaching experience to be considered for this award.

IDEA R. Tim Phillips Award

Purpose: Every fall the Illinois Design Educators Association solicits nominations for selection of one of the best Illinois drafting educators. The tradition and award began in 1989 after the IDEA’s sudden loss of fellow drafting educator R. Tim Phillip to cancer. Tim would be proud to know that he received this award posthumously (*) in 1989 from the IDEA membership, just as those who have received it have been proud to follow his lead. Thank you Tim, and thank you to all the IDEA members who take the time to nominate one of their own!

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