Teachers Without Borders Contest: Teacher Connections
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Welcome to the Helium Teachers Without Borders Teacher Connections contest. This is a special opportunity for anyone to write on issues relevant to teachers around the world. Please consider donating the ad revenue share on your contest articles to Teachers Without Borders by clicking the Donate button and choosing Teachers Without Borders from the drop-down menu. Helium members passionate about education are invited to join Teachers Without Borders too.
Teachers Without Borders has partnered with Helium.com to connect teachers concerned with the needs of students the world over. The Teacher Connections Contest provides opportunities for people passionate about education to learn from each other and address current issues in education around the world.
Teachers Without Borders is an international nonprofit organization that funds international programs and workshops that directly contribute to the betterment of education in local communities. We support teachers worldwide through professional development opportunities and tools, connecting them with each other and to information that helps them play a more vital role in education in their communities. Through our online network and toolset, we focus on teachers with initiative who are passionate – and compassionate—about education and children.
To learn more about the contest and the professional teaching badges available, visit the Teacher Connections Writing Contest Zone.
How the Teacher Connections Contest works:
- This contest consists of 30 titles with a three-week writing period. Please submit magazine-style articles that are NOT in the first person point of view, unless the title specifically asks for it.
- Submission dates: Wednesday, November 18, at 16:00 GMT to Tuesday, December 9, at 23:59 GMT. (Get your current GMT time: Type in “current time gmt” into a Google search window.)
- Awaiting calculation dates: After the submission period, an additional week is provided for article rating to reach community consensus. All titles in the contest are closed to further submissions and Leapfrogs during this time. (Your article’s rank may fluctuate wildly or hardly move.)
- Winners: Winners will be announced on Wednesday, December 16. Read more about winner selection and contest points on the Contest Rules page.
- Completed contest: Once the contest is closed and the results announced, the titles to that contest will reopen for general writing submissions.
Winners earn:
| 1 | 1st Prize at $125 | |
| 1 | 2nd Prize at $75 | |
| 2 | 3rd Prizes at $50 | |
| 4 | 4th Prizes at $25 |
How to earn points:
- 5 points - over 95th percentile
- 4 points - over 85th percentile
- 3 points - over 75th percentile
- 2 points - over 65th percentile
- 1 points - over 55th percentile
- 0 points - over 45th percentile
- -1 points - over 35th percentile
- -2 points - over 25th percentile
- -3 points - over 15th percentile
- -4 points - over 5th percentile
- -5 points - 0- 5th percentile
Be sure to read a copy of Helium’s Writing Standards before you enter the contest.
This week's contest titles:
- A look at emergency education practices in African refugee camps
- Factors involved in assessing how much a culture values the education of its children
- How teachers benefit from using the Teachers Without Borders Teacher Network
- How teachers can connect effectively with students and families while maintaining professionalism
- How teachers can use art and music education to help children heal from trauma and crisis
- How teachers can use pre-reading techniques to accelerate reading comprehension in students
- How to become an effective reading support teacher
- How to bring a broader world perspective into the daily classroom experience
- How to create an effective program for new teacher support in schools
- How to create a teacher evaluation process that supports teacher development goals
- How to teach controversial periods in history with an eye to citizen empowerment rather than victimization and anger
- How to teach holiday traditions in the classroom with a focus on international diversity
- How to transform a tense stereotype situation in the classroom to a teachable opportunity
- How traditional memorization and recitation techniques help students develop strong cognitive abilities
- Pros and cons of sending teachers from developed nations to developing nations for short-term teacher training
- Reading support teachers: Best software for effective teaching
- Regional comparisons: Challenges and strategies for educating girls effectively in developing countries
- Regional comparisons: Ways governments help and hinder the work of teachers in schools
- Success tips for teaching children in emergency and crisis circumstances
- Teacher's guide for parents offering to help at school: What parents should and should not do
- Teachers mentoring other teachers: What to do and what to avoid when offering teacher support
- Teacher tips for parents: Best steps to help foster positive student-teacher relationships
- Techniques for building trust and understanding with ESL learners
- Techniques teachers use to help students develop a sense of connection to create a positive classroom culture
- Tips for helping students make connections when reading about distant cultures and time periods
- Top three online teacher networks for classroom teacher support
- Top three student behavior challenges in the classroom and how teachers overcome them
- Waldorf techniques for mastering math facts with body movements that any teacher can use
- Ways teachers can engage local communities to support schools
- What has worked and not worked with teacher development programs in developing countries
Winnerboard
12/16/2009 05:00:04 PM
Ratings determine winners up to awards deadline.- 1st$1st Prize at $125. Rachelle de Bretagne (54)
- 2nd$2nd Prize at $75. Amanda Dcosta (43)
- 3rd$3rd Prizes at $50. Colette Georgii (40)
4th Prizes at $25 Winners
- 4) Elaine Sihera (37)
- 5) Nan C Avery (25)
- 6) Joan Schroeder (24)
- 7) Jeffrey Ober (24)
In the running
- 8) Juliana Manderico (22)
- 9) Tammy Stoner (21)
- 10) Jerry Curtis (18)
- 11) Christina Pomoni (17)
- 12) Peermuhammad Ameerali (14)
- 13) Sandra Cole (14)
- 14) Carol Natoli (13)
- 15) Beth Mckinney (12)
- 16) Helena Whyte (8)
- 17) Chu Chin Kwok (6)
- 18) C. Martinez (5)
- 19) Opal Minott (5)
- 20) Carol Kondrat (5)
- 21) Anuradha Mishra (5)
- 22) Marilisa Sachteleben (5)
- 23) Dasa Suciu (5)
- 24) Barbara Barone (5)
- 25) Brian Taylor (4)
- 26) M. Velasco (4)
- 27) Felicia Arnold (4)
