Media Savvy Teacher Award, sponsored by Bethpage Federal Credit Union, recognizes 4th, 5th, and 6th grade teachers
(Bethpage, N.Y.) – The Fair Media Council’s (FMC) Media Savvy Teacher Award, sponsored by Bethpage Federal Credit Union, recognizes 4th, 5th, and 6th grade teachers who are using news as a teaching tool in their classrooms. This year FMC is expanding the program by introducing new categories geared around evolving issues in the media. The new categories are:
- Cyberbullying Awareness Literacy: To further childrens’ understanding of what constitutes cyberbullying and how to prevent it in their schools
- Financial Literacy: To create money savvy kids.
- Drug & Alcohol Abuse Prevention Literacy: To create kids with healthy minds & healthy bodies.
- General News Literacy: To further childrens’ understanding of local, national and world events.
“This program continues to focus on the importance of alerting our young people about the relevance of news coverage in their lives. These new categories are geared toward reinforcing the special place the media needs to hold within learning environments and the vitally important place that teachers hold in a young person’s development,” explained FMC Executive Director Jaci Clement.
Entries are due by July 17, 2013 and will be judged by community leaders. The criteria include:
- Teachers working with fourth, fifth and sixth graders anywhere in the United States may enter.
- Student projects must be completed before entering the FMC Media Savvy Teacher Award process. (Entries must explain, in less than 200 words, the idea or concept behind the program, how the concept was implemented and how results were measured.)
- Projects must contain these elements: A research component using multiple news sources; a writing, reading, graphic, video or audio component to illustrate the researched information; and a copy of the completed, final presentation (may be submitted on disc, via link or hard copy).
For a full list of rules and to download entry form, click here.
The Fair Media Council (FMC) is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that educates businesses, nonprofits and the public to become media savvy. FMC also advocates for quality local news coverage and has about 200 New York Metro area businesses and nonprofits as members.
