Ruth E. Wasley World Language Teacher of the Year Award
Given to a NYSAFLT member who has demonstrated excellence as a K-12 and/or post-secondary teacher.
The Ruth E. Wasley NYS World Language Teacher of the Year Award was named after a former secretary of NYSAFLT and a professor and teacher/trainer of foreign language methodology at SUNY Albany. Extremely innovative and creative, and known for her sense of humor, Dr. Wasley was a methodologist par excellence and an outstanding role model for her students. In 1969, Dorothy Rivers Shoudy was the first recipient of the Ruth E. Wasley Distinguished Teacher Award.
The winner of the Wasley Award is subsequently nominated to the NECTFL TOY competition, the winner of which goes on to the ACTFL TOY competition. To see an overview of the entire process, click here.
CRITERIA FOR APPLYING
Candidates must meet the following requirements:
- Candidates must be full-time world language Pre-K-12 teachers or post-secondary instructors or professors.
- There is an expectation of teaching for at least two additional years.
- Candidates must spend at least 50% of their teaching duty in direct teaching of languages (with no more than half of the language teaching percentage being the teaching of English Language Learners).
- Candidates cannot at the time of such nomination or selection be also nominated for a position on the ACTFL Board of Directors nor nominated for an award given by ACTFL for the year in which that candidate would be placed in eligibility for the ACTFL National Language Teacher of the Year.
