CEISMC's GIFT - Georgia Intern Fellowships for Teachers

We are now accepting applications for the 2010 GIFT Summer Internship Program.
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(Applications will be accepted no later than April 30, 2010)

Georgia Intern-Fellowships for Teachers (GIFT) Founded in 1991 as a program of the Georgia Institute of Technology's CEISMC, the GIFT program is a paid 4-7 week summer internship for science, mathematics and technology teachers. GIFT offers teachers real world applications of the subjects that they teach. Teachers are exposed to inquiry and problem solving, cutting-edge scientific research, and data analysis. By offering business and industry internships and public science institute and research fellowships, teachers increase content knowledge and gain practical examples of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics applications for enriched instruction and teaching practices based on evidence-based experiences.

Since its founding, GIFT has placed teachers in more than 1500 positions statewide. For more information about the CEISMC GIFT Program click here.

GIFT Launches Inaugural Awards Program

Long recognized for innovative teacher professional development, the Georgia Intern-Fellowships for Teachers (GIFT) program is launching an annual GIFT Action Plan Achievement Awards program to recognize outstanding GIFT teachers.

The goal of the awards program is to annually recognize three outstanding teachers who effectively implemented GIFT Action Plans into their teaching practices. In addition to being recognized at the annual GIFT End of Summer Celebration Luncheon, each of the three top teachers will also receive a monetary award.

Nominations for the inaugural awards will come from teachers who participated in GIFT during summer 2008 or 2009. Effective 2011, nominees will come from the prior year’s program participants, (i.e. 2011 nominees would have participated in GIFT during summer 2010).

GIFT teachers are invited to nominate themselves for the award. Awards submissions must include:

Nominator’s name, home address, primary contact phone number, and email address;
Nominees’ name, home address, primary contact phone number, and email address;
Year of Nominee’s GIFT internship;
Site of Nominee’s GIFT internship;
Nominee’s name of school, principal’s name, school address, school phone number, and school fax number;
A narrative (200-250 words) discussing the impact of the GIFT experience on the teacher’s professional growth;
One page summary of the GIFT Action Plan;
Explanation of activities or steps taken to implement the Action Plan;
Explanation of resources used to implement the Action Plan;
Documented or demonstrable impact on classroom activities/student achievement; and
Two letters of support. One must be from an administrator at the teacher’s school. The other letter may be from GIFT Mentors, GIFT Facilitators, other teachers, parents or students.

Please note that the complete Awards submission packet, including the required components above, is limited to 12 pages. Awards will be granted as First, Second and Third Place Winners. Nominations and documents can be submitted to Hannah.Bateman@ceismc.gatech.edu. The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2010. Winners will be notified by June 30, 2010.

For more information, contact Hannah Bateman at Hannah.Bateman@ceismc.gatech.edu or 404 894 9143.