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The McGlothlin Awards for
Teaching Excellence
2006 Winners |
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The McGlothlin Foundation,
Blue Ridge
PBS,
and Radford University
Announce the 2006 McGlothlin Awards
for Teaching Excellence
(Roanoke, VA)- The 2006
McGlothlin Awards for Teaching Excellence were awarded April 19, 2006 at
Radford University, granted in the amount of $25,000 each to two
outstanding teachers. These awards are tied with the nation's largest
awards to teachers-the Milkin and the Disney awards-but are only offered
to teachers from communities in the Blue Ridge regions of Virginia,
Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia. |
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The purpose of these awards, now in its seventh year, is to "find the
best teachers working in today's classrooms around our region. We want to
recognize their fine work, reward them for it, and by so doing inspire
others to the high qualities they exemplify. This award recognizes in a
rather significant way what we consider one of the most important
professions-and one with so many unsung heroes."
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2006
Elementary School Winner
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Middle/High School Winner (Grade 6-12): |
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Jennie Finney
Stony Mill Elementary School
Pittsylvania County, VA |
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John Dodson
Rocky Gap High School
Bland County, VA |
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2006 Elementary School Finalists |
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2006 Middle/High School Finalists |
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Ruth Erquiaga
Perrymont Elementary School
Lynchburg, VA
Tamatha Farrell
Burlington Elementary School
Roanoke County, VA |
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Tracy Easterling
Vance Middle School
Bristol, TN
Susan Stanberry
Heritage High School
Lynchburg, VA |
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| Veteran teacher
Jennie Finney, of Stony Mill Elementary in Pittsylvania County,
leads a classroom where hands-on activities are the key to learning.
Jennie has over 25 years of classroom experience, and she has spent
a lot of time crafting lessons that incorporate cooperative learning
strategies and tons of student participation. Her students are used
to plenty of 'AHA' moments when the scientific principles listed in
the curriculum come alive before their eyes. With her travel
stipend, Jennie dreams of seeing Australia and the Great Barrier
Reef to experience the diversity of life on land and sea. |
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 John Dodson teaches
social studies at Rocky Gap High School in Bland County and oversees a
program that has been gathering and organizing the oral histories of
hundreds of local residents. A veteran of the classroom and a native of
the region, John was an early adopter of instructional technology and
was one of the first in his district to recognize the instructional
impact of the internet in the classroom. In a school where this year's
graduating class of seniors numbers only 32, John works hard to make
sure that students are exposed to the world around them by integrating
the creative use of technology into his lessons and in the
extracurricular oral history project that is being created and
maintained by his students.
John will use his travel
stipend to visit England and Scotland to meet with the creators of a
local history project there and plans to make connections between the
Old World and his community in Bland County. Visit the Bland County
History Archives online at
www.bland.k12.va.us/bland/rocky/gap.html
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The 2006 McGlothlin Awards for Teaching
Excellence recognize one Grade K-5 teacher and one Grade 6-12
teacher. Each winner is awarded $25,000, with the stipulation that
$10,000 must be used, within a year, for international travel and/or
study to broaden the thinking and experience of the winning teachers
and further enhance their excellence as professional educators. Four
runner-up finalists will each receive $1,000. "The McGlothlin
Foundation wishes to inspire the award recipients," says Thomas D.
McGlothlin, president of the McGlothlin Foundation, "so that they
can breathe new life into their classrooms, their peers, and indeed
the entire school." |
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2006 runner-up
finalists |
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See videos & lesson plans from all
of our
talented finalists at
www.radford.edu/~lmcdanie/McGlothlin_Awards/index.htm
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