Promising New Teacher

This award is to honor a world language educator in their early career who demonstrates exceptional developing abilities in the classroom. This category is open to individuals with less than three (3) years of service as a certified world language teacher. Individuals currently serving as a teaching assistant, part-time teacher or as a substitute may also be considered, but service time in these types of positions will not count in calculating one’s total service time. Nominees for this award must demonstrate potential for excellence in world language teaching and evidence of promotion of world languages. Membership and active participation in AWLA is encouraged, but not required. 

Friend of Languages Award

Nominees for this award should be a school administrator, staff member, individual, or organization whose leadership has strengthened the status of world languages in his/her local school/system, who has worked at improving the quality of world language teaching, and/or who is an advocate of world language study. This recognition is intended not for language educators but for those outside of our profession who exhibit exemplary support of world language study and teaching. 

Educators of Excellence (Post-Secondary)

This award recognizes educators representing each language in AWLA at the post-secondary level including the community college, college and university levels. Nominees for this award should exemplify excellence in language teaching, leadership and advocacy at the local, state, regional or national level. From this group of winners, one (1) AWLA Educator of Excellence will be nominated to represent Alabama for the SCOLT Educator of Excellence (Post-Secondary) Award.