CEGSA Leading Lights Award

The CEGSA Leading Light award aims to recognise those within the South Australian Educational community who provide inspiration to others by their excellent practice in supporting the use of ICT to enhance and extend student learning.

At the end of each year the CEGSA committee selects the South Australian Computer Educator of the Year and the South Australian ICT Leader of the Year from the Leading Light nominations received throughout the year.

The South Australian awards winners are nominated for the corresponding Australian awards, decided by the Australian Council of Computers in Education (ACCE) board at the Annual General Meeting in February.

The winner of the Australian Computer Educator of the Year award is, in turn, nominated for the International Computer Educator Of the Year, decided by ISTE.

What Is a Leading Light?

A Leading Light is not necessarily a teacher, but is a CEGSA member (individual not organisational) who plays a leading role in the South Australian educational community.

A Leading Light may be seen doing one or more of the following:

Contributing to the professional development of teachers by organising, providing, delivering professional development
Playing a leading role in embedding ICT into the curriculum
Pro-actively encouraging and enabling students and / or teachers to use ICT in classroom activities

Demonstrating exemplary embedded ICT practice and thereby inspiring others

Providing workshops and presentations related to the use of ICT in the classroom (including regional and annual conferences)

Development of a website that provides resources related to using ICT for others to use

Development of online teaching resources e.g. webquests, lesson plans

Playing a district or statewide role through the provision of any of the above, including online projects, mailing lists, newsletters etc.

How a Leading Light is Nominated

For 2008 we will continue a self-nomination system, commenced in 2007, using an online form. This is a GoogleDoc.

The Leading Lights sub-committee will call for individual members to apply for Leading Light status in October and November 2008 Applicants will be asked to demonstrate that they have done at least 5 of the following in the last 18 months:

made a contribution to your school newsletter on IT related topic
presented to the school community on related IT issue or topic
organised a school-based professional development activity on an IT related topic or issue
facilitated out of hours school training for the school community
made contributions to online communities
presented at a conference on an IT related topic (eg EChO, ALEA, SASTA)
presented at the CEGSA 2007 Conference or ACCE 2006 conference
organised a CEGSA professional development activity
delivered a CEGSA professional development activity
contributed an article on an IT related topic to a professional journal e.g. RAMpage
maintained a public blog
been a member of the CEGSA committee

Applicants will be asked for evidence to support their application

Deciding who is a Leading Light

The final decision on who is given CEGSA Leading Light status will be made by the CEGSA Committee on the recommendation of the Leading Light sub-committee

There is no limitation to the number of CEGSA individual members who can be awarded Leading Light status

CEGSA certificates of appreciation will be issued to each Leading Light.

The CEGSA Leading Light list will be developed annually, and the names of the previous year's Leading Lights will be available on the CEGSA website.

The CEGSA executive will be responsible for nominating eligible Leading Lights for ACCE Professional Status.

Computer Educator of the Year and Outstanding ICT Leader of the Year

In December of each year, all nominees on the current CEGSA Leading Light list will be considered for these Awards, depending on their teaching status. All will be considered eligible, provided they have supplied the additional information requested by the CEGSA office. A short list of up to 5 nominees will be created and ranked.

The classroom teacher ranked at the top of the short list will be named CEGSA Computer Educator of the Year for that year and the non-classroom teacher ranked at the top of the list will be named CEGSA ICT Leader of the Year. The names of those who made the short list will also be publicised.

Those nominated for ACCE awards will be given the opportunity to augment their nomination with additional evidence according to ACCE criteria.

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