OCTE Membership
Become an OCTE member and connect
with the National Council of Teachers of English—the world's largest
subject-matter educational association with more than 77,000 members in
the United States and other countries.
For more than 60 years, OCTE has
offered quality professional development programs for teachers of English
and
language arts.
Your OCTE membership
- creates access to NCTE-regional
and national conferences, committees, programs
- reduces registration fee at OCTE
in-service conferences
- creates access to three NCTE
student writing and publishing competitions:
- PRESLM (Program to Recognize
Excellence in Student Literary Magazines)
- NCTE Achievement Awards (scholarships
for 11th grade Oregon students)
- NCTE Promising Young Writers
(recognition for 8th grade Oregon students)
- underwrites various literacy
institutes
- co-sponsors the statewide Oregon
Writing Festival with the Graduate School of Education at Portland
State University
- provides a free subscription
to Chalkboard—the OCTE newsletter
- provides a free subscription
to the Oregon English Journal
- sponsors the Oregon Literature
Series—the six-volume anthology from OSU Press
- funds the Oregon Excellence Awards
in Teaching English Language Arts, the only statewide recognition program
for our subject area
- funds research grants to English
language arts classroom teachers
- funds the statewide "Teachers
and Students as Writers" competition and anthology
Obtain an application
for membership in OCTE:
For membership information, contact
Daphne Wood
OCTE Vice President
Ainsworth Elementary School
Portland, OR
daphnedwood@comcast.net
Chair, Membership Committee
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