Annual Crossfield Teacher Teacher of the Year Award

Purpose of the Award

The A. Scott Crossfield Aerospace Education Award (the Crossfield Award) is presented to recognize and reward aerospace education teachers for outstanding accomplishments in aerospace education and for possessing those honorable attributes we expect from American Teachers

Qualifications: Nominees can be current classroom teachers from grades kindergarten through twelfth grade from any public, private, parochial or charter school. Nominees can also be teachers in a non-traditional teaching setting.  The priority of the award is that nominees must either teach aerospace education as a subject or use aerospace education to enrich the teaching of traditional subjects. Although the Crossfield Award is an award presented to an educator, the accomplishments of the nominee need not be limited to the year for which the award is given. The award recognizes dedicated and talented aerospace educators who:

• Set high standards for students and demand excellence in performance.
• Strive to improve their personal academic competence and teaching ability.
• Perform their teaching duties in an exemplary manner, resulting in true learning by students.
• Demonstrate creativity in developing and utilizing materials to enhance the teaching of aerospace.
• Maximize student involvement and gear activities to improve learning or create and develop a one-time project or program of such significance that it has a major impact on the teaching of aerospace education.