CCCC Outstanding Teaching Award Grant

The CCCC Outstanding Teaching Award, established in 2020, recognizes exceptional teaching practices within the field of composition and communication. It is awarded annually to honor educators who focus on first-year college writing classes. The award includes a $500 grant for travel or educational resources. Two awards are given: one for an Emergent Outstanding Teacher and another for a Sustained Outstanding Teacher, celebrating the dedication of CCCC members in enhancing student learning.

Established in 2020, the CCCC Outstanding Teaching Award is presented annually to honor the discipline’s practitioners and make visible the best teaching practices of the field. The intent of this award is to honor teaching and CCCC members who do their primary work in the classroom every day. CCCC offers two awards each year—one for an Emergent Outstanding Teacher and the other for a Sustained Outstanding Teacher. Awardees will receive $500 for travel, classroom, or other educational funding.

Eligibility

Educators are eligible to apply if they teach primarily during a student’s first year in college or in students’ first college writing classes, including:first-year compositionbasic writingfirst-year seminarsaccelerated learninggeneral educationdevelopmental writingother writing models that occur during a student’s first-year standing in higher education