Purpose: To recognize teachers who are providing outstanding vocational-technical education programs for youth in their respective fields and communities. Recipients of this award must have made significant contributions toward innovative, unique and novel programs that are serving to improve and promote vocational - technical education.

Eligibility:

• Full time classroom/laboratory teachers in a vocational-technical education program in a high school setting.
• Nominees must be teachers at the time of selection as a regional winner.
• Contributions and achievements on which the nomination is based should have been made within the past ten years.
• Nominee should have been involved in some capacity of ACTE at the regional and/or national level.
• Must have been a member of ACTE and THOA for at least the past five consecutive years.
• Persons who have made contributions to education outside their field on state and national levels will be highly considered.

Each area will nominate one Outstanding Teacher. The nominee will be interviewed by the THOA, Inc. Executive Board at the summer Professional Improvement Conference.

The THOA President-Elect will be the contact person for obtaining the current application.

All materials required by the application will be due at the ACTE headquarters by mid September.