Outstanding Global Educator of the Year

Awarded by: Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE)

Nominations are sought for the bi-annual SITE Award for Outstanding Global Educator associated with information technology and teacher education. Nominations will be reviewed in odd years, from 2011 onwards.

The Award
The SITE Outstanding Global Educator Award was established in 2010 to (a) recognize and encourage outstanding leadership, scholarship and service globally; and (b) increase awareness of the variety and range of successful approaches taken through teacher education to increase equity while also improving intercultural competence with effective and equitable adoption of information technology.

Award winners are recognized as outstanding global teacher educators for their global leadership in information technology and teacher education. Award winners have gone beyond service to digital equity recognized in the SITE OSDE Award to provide leadership that is sensitive to local and global issues encompassing all facets of teacher education: service, teaching and research.

In common with the SITE Outstanding Service to Digital Equity Award, the presentation of this award is also intended to emphasize SITE’s concern for equity in information technology and teacher education.

Eligibility Criteria
The SITE Outstanding Awards committee, which reports to the SITE Consultative Council, is seeking nominations for leaders who have demonstrated such international and global leadership and service toward increasing digital equity through their work in teacher education, nationally and internationally. Scholarly leadership should include but are not limited to teaching, research, leadership, performance, publications, and outreach. Unlike the SITE Outstanding Service to Digital Equity Award, the SITE OGE award recognizes the individual while also acknowledging that such individuals are likely to have leadership as ‘servant leaders’ in a range of international projects.

Independent referees will be taken up for all finalists identified. The award winner is normally invited to the annual SITE conference in the year of her or his award. The nomination must show outstanding evidence in the following areas:

Service to and impact on teacher education
Service to digital equity, globally
Scholarly leadership
Overall initiative and vision
Work as An Innovation Catalyst
Nominations are reviewed by the SITE Outstanding Awards Committee, which is a subcommittee of the SITE Consultative Council and is chaired by a member of that Council. Membership includes a representative from the following SITE SIGs: Assistive Technologies, Equity & Social Justice, International Education, and Special Education. The chair of the Consultative Council receives the recommendations of the SITE Outstanding Awards Committee and may support their recommendations to the SITE President, who makes the final decision on SITE awards. The recommendation may be to make no award for that year.