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Dr. alesia slocumb-bradfordwashington, d.c. | YEARS TAUGHT: 1987 - PresentAlesia believes the most productive relationship between teachers and students is one where there is respect, communication, comfort, and a shared sense of mutual understanding of established goals for students as well as for teachers. Dr. Slocumb-Bradford believes that if ever there was a perfect pair, it’s certainly, students’ classroom success and a teacher’s efforts in the classroom. Teaching and learning should go hand and hand. When a teacher is teaching effectively, then students will learn. When students understand and master the standards, results immediately inform the teacher that the methods, techniques, and lesson plan was a success.
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linda evanchykwalton beach, fl | YEARS TAUGHT: 1979 - PresentLinda believes the good teachers should challenge their students. She does this by challenging them to take leadership roles that will give them more responsibility and will call on them to take on a different set of skills. Ms. Evanchyk believes that accountability isn’t a judgment from outside sources nor an accusation that someone isn’t doing a good job. She tries to take an active approach to finding her own ways of accountability. “Ultimately, the greatest accountability comes from when a teacher regularly reflects on his or her practices and continues to eliminate those practices which no longer work, those which need to be updated, and add new practices which will lead to student achievement.
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Dr. erlene nelsonphiladelphia, pa | Years Taught: 1958 - PresentErlene is creative, innovative and inspiring in order to implant within each student a love for learning, a desire to be with a community of learners, and be empowered as an independent thinker and problem solver. Dr. Nelson believes that teaching is not stagnant, for to be an exemplary teacher, she must be a student herself, forever learning the latest that educational research has to offer from the teachers who were once our students.
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warren phillipsplymouth, ma | Years Taught: 1973 - PresentWarren believes that collaboration is the key in every project. He also believes that the most productive relationship between teachers and students is mutual respect and shared responsibility in creating a positive school community. All parties have a vested interest and benefit from a happy and purposeful school environment. Mr. Phillips says that Service Learning is a combination of academic learning, service within the community, and civic engagement. The community needs are not more important than students needs, and vice versa. The relationship, therefore, is reciprocal. His students have found that doing service-learning has encouraged them to get involved with the community, make connections with the work force, learn how to work as a team, learn what it means to be a community member, and gain many other life-long skills. They become aware of their strengths and the strengths of others.
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darrell woodsnorth canton, oh | Years Taught: 1985 - presentDarrell believes the unity of any team is seen when the students share goals and failures, when they care enough to listen to each other, or even when they laugh spontaneously for no “scientific” reason. When each student feels self-worth, the potential that can be achieved reaches beyond what was previously believed possible. Taking the time to actively listen to these young people and their concerns about what is happening around them, he says makes his role even easier. Mr. Woods believes that we [educators] must challenge ourselves to be the best we can, holding ourselves to higher standards than anyone else expects of us, and then expecting the same of our students and colleagues. No teaching certificate or college transcript can make us “highly qualified.” No multi-million dollar school building or technology lab can create the perfect environment for learning. It is the heart and soul of a passionate teacher, someone who truly believes he can impact the lives of his students, that makes a teacher great
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