This year marks the 50th anniversary of the NABT Outstanding Biology Teacher Award (OBTA), and to celebrate this “golden” milestone, NABT needs your help to find at least 50 OBTA recipients in 2012. The Outstanding Biology Teacher Award (OBTA) program recognizes an outstanding biology educator (grades 7-12) in each of the 50 states; Washington, DC; Canada; Puerto Rico; and overseas territories. Candidates for the OBTA do not need to be NABT members, but they must have at least three years public, private, or parochial school teaching experience. A major portion of the nominee’s career must also have been devoted to the teaching of biology and life science, and candidates are evaluated on their teaching ability, experience, cooperativeness in the school and community, inventiveness, initiative, and student-teacher relationships. Many of NABT’s notable members and leaders are past recipients of the OBTA, and you can carry on this tradition of excellence by nominating a teacher you know. SELF NOMINATIONS ARE WELCOME.
Contact Kay Gamble, the Oklahoma OBTA Director as soon as possible and help NABT get 50 winners to celebrate the 50th!
Learn more about the 2011 OBTA Recipients and program and submit a nomination at http://www.nabt.org/websites/institution/index.php?p=20.
The NABT Outstanding Biology Teacher Award is sponsored by
