National Technology Education Awards

The TENZ Council with the support of IPENZ Engineers New Zealand has instituted a set of national awards to provide professional recognition for excellence in Technology. The first in this series of awards was made at the TENZ 2003 conference in Hamilton.

A fourth set of awards will be presented at TENZ 2009 in Napier and the Council invites you to nominate outstanding educators.

Awards will be made in four categories:

Outstanding Teacher in Technology Award

This award is made to teachers who have displayed outstanding capability in teaching technology over a period of time.  They may be a coordinator or Head of Department or those not holding such positions but consistently displaying excellence in their teaching practice.

Nominations will be considered by a selection committee established by the TENZ National Council and the decisions made referred back to the full Council for ratification.  Each individual award will be accompanied by a short citation.

Teacher Educator in Technology Award

This award is made to lecturers, advisors, facilitators, consultants or teachers for their service to teacher development work in Technology.  The category is for high quality work that has developed teacher understanding and confidence over a significant period of time in pre-service and/or in-service training. 

Subject Leadership in Technology Award

This award recognises excellence in subject leadership.  It is made for a significant contribution over a period of time in developing Technology programmes in a school or organisation and achieving consistently high standards of performance from students.

Outstanding Contribution to Technology Award

This is the highest professional award made by Technology Education New Zealand.  Those nominated may come from a school management, advisory, lecturing, teaching, research, curriculum development, administration or ‘industry’ background.  Recipients will have given service to Technology over a long period of time and made an outstanding contribution, showing commitment and leadership.

The closing date for receipt of nominations is Friday 12 September 2009.

For a copy of the nomination form click here. (.pdf file, 79Kb)