The AIA Educator/Practitioner Net (EPN) announces the 14th AIA Education
Honor Awards Program, which discovers and recognizes individuals who serve
the profession as outstanding teachers. The program also serves to increase
professional and public awareness of models of educational excellence
in classroom, studio, community-based service learning, or laboratory
work. All courses completed since January 1, 1998, that have not previously
received AIA Education Honor Awards, are eligible for submission.
Evaluation criteria
The awards jury will seek evidence of exceptional and innovative courses
that:
Deal with broad issues, particularly in cross-disciplinary collaboration
and/or within the broader community
Contribute to the advancement of architecture education
Have the potential to benefit and/or change practice
Promote models of excellence that can be appropriated by other
educators.
Submission date
All final hard-copy submission materials and any supplementary materialor,
for Web-based submissions, notification of fully completed and accessible
Web sitesmust be received at the AIA no
later than 5 p.m. EST on January 13, 2003.
Submission requirements
Submissions must include a 175-word (maximum) abstract, double-spaced,
including the title and nature of the project. The abstract must be written
on a single page, in a form suitable for national publication. In addition,
submissions must include one copy of:
1. Letter of submission, providing: name(s) and professional title(s)
of submitting teacher or teaching team members, course title, subject
area, when it was offered, and to what level of students it was offered
2. An 8-1/2" x 11" envelope firmly attached to the back of the
entry, containing names and titles of submitting educators(s); to assure
blind review, no team or institution identification may appear anywhere
else on the entry
3. Double-spaced description not to exceed five pages, including:
Programs place within the curriculum, such as the subject area,
whether elective or required course, and dates it was offered
Educational goals and teaching strategies
Evaluation methods used to assess student work
4. Examples of student work
5. Letter from the institutions dean/program director verifying course
dates and the place of the instruction within the curriculum
6. Self-addressed stamped envelope for any portions of the submission
to be returned, together with a note indicating precisely what is to be
returned.
Submission media
The AIA fully recognizes that highly innovative interactive work in an
electronic medium cannot always be adequately conveyed in a traditional
8-1/2" x 11" binder format. Accordingly, the AIA will make every
effort to secure the means for jurors to consider submission materials
in a wide range of formats (Web sites, CD-ROMS, brief VHS- or audio-tapes,
etc.) However, because the program cannot rely on the seamless interaction
of a vast array of technical devices at a remote jury site, the jury will
primarily consider written and graphic hard-copy materials in its deliberations
and access supporting materials at its discretion.
Selection
An independent jury will select the winning entries and present the awards
during the 2003 ACSA annual meeting in March.
Dissemination
Winners will be notified in February 2003, and announcement of winning
entries will appear in AIArchitect,
ACSA News, and major commercial
architecture publications. Current plans call for winning entries to be
published on the AIAs Web site and other sites. In addition, winners
may be invited to participate in regional or national workshops or conferences
as appropriate.
Please address entries as well as any questions to Ellen Scanlan Cathey,
Assoc. AIA, Director of Education, The American Institute of Architects,
1735 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20006-5292; 202-626-7417;
or ecathey@aia.org.
Copyright 2002 The American Institute of Architects.
All rights reserved.
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