GCTE is please to announce the opening of competition for the W. Geiger Ellis Student Teaching Scholarship.  This $1,000.00 scholarship will be awarded to a student who will be student teaching in English/Language Arts, grades K–12, through a Georgia college or university during the 2011-12 school year.  The following are the requirements for the scholarship:

 

1. Applicants must be pursuing a degree program that includes professional certification from a Georgia approved program in teaching English/Language Arts at the middle or secondary level or cognate area at the elementary level and be scheduled to student-teach during fall 2011 or spring 2012.

   

 2. Applicants must have a minimum 3.2 GPA (on a 4 point scale) and must submit a transcript of all college work with their materials. Unofficial transcripts emailed as attachments are acceptable for the first round of competition.  Finalists may be asked to provide official transcripts.

 

 3. Applicants should write a cover letter explaining why they should be considered for the scholarship. 

 

Three letters of recommendation complete the application process:  one from an English department faculty member, one from an education faculty member (a methods instructor, if available), and one from outside the college or university, e.g., a former employer, a former public school teacher of English.

 

The scholarship recipient will be asked to attend the GCTE Conference in February to receive the award and scholarship check.  More than one scholarship may be awarded with the approval of the GCTE Executive Board.

 

Applicants and references should submit all materials by emailing them as attachments to Dawn Latta Kirby, Ellis Award Chair, at dkirby8@kennesaw.edu. Please indicate ELLIS AWARD APPLICATION in the subject line of your email.

 

 

The deadline for receiving all materials is Tuesday, January 3, 2012.

 

Dawn Latta Kirby

Associate Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences

 Professor, English and English Education

Director, Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project

 MD 2201

1000 Chastain Road

Kennesaw State University

Kennesaw, GA  30144-5591

 

Email: dkirby8@kennesaw.edu

Phone: 770.423.6124

FAX:  770.423.6705