Describe your award, eligibility rules, and audiences. Makeform builds a teacher of the year nomination form that captures nominee details, concrete examples, and consistent evidence for review.
Route nominations to Google Sheets, Slack, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a prompt, adapt it, or send it to the Makeform builder. Each example shows a practical nomination structure.
Audience
Students, families, and employees across several schools
Format
Conditional nomination form with school routing
Prompt size
329 chars
Example form structure
Conditional nomination form with school routing
Who is making this nomination?
Nominee, school, and teaching assignment
Describe a specific example of impact
Which award criteria does this example demonstrate?
Supporting material
Suggested routing tags
Student nominations
Family nominations
Staff nominations
Ask for one observable example with context and impact. Specific evidence is more useful to a committee than a list of adjectives.
Step 1
Invite
share one accessible nomination link
Step 2
Nominate
capture criteria and concrete examples
Step 3
Route
organize entries by school and audience
Step 4
Review
give the committee consistent evidence
Better nominations
A focused form helps every audience explain what the teacher did, which criterion it demonstrates, and why it mattered.
Conditional questions give students plain language, families relevant prompts, and employees the rubric.
Connect classroom moments to instruction, belonging, leadership, collaboration, or community impact.
Capture school, grade, subject, and nominator type as fields that are easy to filter.
Built for school communities
Welcome several perspectives while keeping evidence consistent.
Short prompts ask what happened and how it affected learning or belonging, with optional anonymity when your award rules allow it.
Family-facing questions focus on communication, student growth, inclusion, and partnership with the school community.
Rubric-aligned prompts capture professional practice, collaboration, leadership, and firsthand workplace examples.
School and audience tags keep a district-wide pool sortable before reviewers begin reading narrative responses.
Nomination workflow
Build around published criteria, test each pathway, then open nominations with a clear deadline.
Provide grade levels, eligible roles, deadline, criteria, and allowed nominator groups.
Add your criteria, required fields, and translations, then preview every conditional route.
Share one link and state eligibility, the closing date, and next steps.
Group entries by school or nominee and use the same evidence categories for review.
Collection options
The goal is not longer praise. It is enough consistent, relevant detail for a committee to understand each nominee's contribution.
Field guide
Use these six sections as a practical checklist, then adapt the wording to your published award rules and local review process.
Nominator
Ask whether the nominator is a student, family member, employee, administrator, or partner. Collect only contact details needed for follow-up.
Nominee
School, grade band, subject, and role fields prevent mix-ups and help group nominations for one person.
Award criteria
List criteria in plain language. Let nominators choose relevant areas, then request evidence for those choices.
Evidence
Ask separately about the setting, teacher's action, and observed difference so responses go beyond adjectives.
Supporting material
Explain accepted formats and useful materials. Keep the core nomination understandable without an attachment.
Process clarity
Show the deadline, duplicate policy, follow-up permission, and next steps. Confirm receipt without promising advancement.
Related tools
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Open toolGather broader student perspectives with questions designed for a feedback survey rather than an award nomination.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for administrators planning an inclusive, evidence-led nomination process.
Collect nominator role, teacher name, school, subject, eligibility, selected criteria, and one example of the teacher's action and impact. Add follow-up permission or uploads only when needed.
Yes. Use conditional paths: plain-language prompts for students, family-focused questions for caregivers, and rubric-aligned questions for employees. Keep nominee fields and evidence categories consistent.
Ask separately for the situation, teacher's action, and observed result. Show criteria before the narrative and provide brief length guidance.
That depends on your process. Named entries allow follow-up; anonymity may lower barriers for students. Publish the eligibility rule and collect no identifying fields when anonymity is promised.
State the rule on the form. Group submissions by nominee so reviewers see distinct perspectives without treating popularity as a criterion. Explain that repeat entries do not increase standing.
Yes. Add an optional upload with accepted formats and sizes. Keep narrative answers useful without attachments, and discourage unnecessary student information.
Yes. Makeform provides unlimited free forms and responses. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge; it does not unlock a response allowance.
Use dropdowns for school, grade, subject, nominator type, and criteria. Route structured responses to the review workspace, limit access, and apply your documented rubric.
Open nominations with a form built around your award.
