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| Time Warner Cable 15th Annual Teacher Awards |
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Time Warner Cable honors 20 classroom projects and the teachers who develop them with the "Time Warner Cable National Teacher Awards." Winners receive a $1,000 cash award and a crystal apple award and a trip to the awards banquet in Washington, D.C. The awards:
- Recognize outstanding teachers who develop creative learning experiences using cable television programming or technology;
- Encourage the development and effective use of Cable in the Classroom educational programs;
- Stimulate a national exchange of innovative ideas and programs among educators.
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Official entry form and project summary form (PDF, requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
- Participating schools must be located within a Time Warner Cable service area.
- Eligible teachers (grades K-12) must work at a state accredited public or private U.S. school.
- Projects must involve cable television or technology, either with national cable program networks or local government, educational or public access television.
- Projects should focus on areas such as curriculum development, cross-curricular studies, classroom-to-community activities, study-related materials, audiovisual productions and/or multimedia applications.
- Projects need to take place between Sept. 1, 2003, and April 16, 2004.
- A teacher, or team of teachers, must create and conduct a project based on the above criteria and submit the official entry form and project summary by the due date, April 16, 2004.
- Lesson plans, student examples and other printed materials to support your entry should be submitted in an 8 1/2" by 11" binder or folder.
- Audiovisual entries must be on 3/4" or 1/2" VHS format tapes, no more than four minutes in length. Indicate start/stop cues on tape label or provide a cue sheet if more than one clip is on the tape.
- Label all materials completely with project title, teacher name(s), school name, address and phone number.
- Materials submitted will not be returned. Make a copy of your entry before mailing.
- All materials must be shipped pre-paid.
Send entries to
Time Warner Cable
Attn: National Teacher Awards
290 Harbor Drive
Stamford, CT 06902
Phone: 203-328-0620
All entries will be judged by an impartial panel of knowledgeable professionals in education and television. Judging will be based on:
- Overall program content
- Relevance to the curriculum
- Learning benefits to students
- Innovative approach
- Quality of materials and activities
- Frequency and effective use of cable programming or technology
- Duration of project
- Number of students affected
List of 2003 award winners
| TIPS FOR CREATING AN AWARD-WINNING ENTRY |
- Be neat. Make sure the judges can read your handwriting, and if your penmanship is at all questionable, type your application and recompose it on a computer.
- Boast a little. Don't be afraid to let the judges know how great your project really is. If you don't think it was innovative, neither will they.
- Include all the technology resources you used, including the Internet, computer software, or specific websites.
- Be complete. Make sure you answer all the appropriate questions completely.
- Be creative. Include photos from your classroom, examples of students' work, lesson plans, or a short video.
- Don't miss the deadline!
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