By Elisabeth Slay The Shawnee News-Star [email protected]
Reda Marcussen, a teacher at Bethel Center School, was selected as The Shawnee Information-Star’s March Trainer of the Month, an award sponsored by Patriot Auto Group in Chandler.
In accordance to Marcussen, she has been instructing for 33 decades at Bethel General public Educational facilities.
“It’s superb (to acquire this award) since it’s 1 of people work opportunities the place you by no means know for certain if you are executing superior,” she explained.
She explained it is when she’s visited by previous learners that she understands she’s carrying out her work very well.
Marcussen claimed she was a non-standard pupil and gained her training diploma from Oklahoma Baptist University right after becoming a remain-dwelling-mom for a when.
She taught grades 3rd as a result of eighth and presently teaches English and Humanities to sixth by eighth graders.
In addition to English and Humanities, Marcussen has been in cost of the Gifted and Talented system for 25 a long time at BMS, she teaches drama and sponsors the Tutorial Bowl Workforce.
In accordance to Leah O’Rorke, co-employee and BPS District Library Media Expert, Marcussen is extremely deserving of obtaining the Teacher of the Month title. “In the yrs that I have identified Reda, it has been a pleasure and a privilege to look at her do the factor she enjoys most: teach,” O’Rorke said. “Because Reda has frequently prioritized education as an true way of living, she has continued to make a difference in the Bethel local community for 33 yrs.”
As a consequence of getting Teacher of the Month, Marcussen acquired a $100 Visa gift card and will use it on supplies for her out of doors classroom and a Medieval Fair the Gifted and Gifted Method students will host for Bethel Elementary School and BMS learners on May well 10-11.
She has also gained the Skilled Oklahoma Educators Foundation Junior High Educator Merit Award and a $500, prize which she also place toward provides for her classroom and the Medieval Reasonable.
The mom of two mentioned she was impressed to turn into an educator because she felt it would be easier to commit time with her children.
“I believed ‘If I really do not like it properly I can do that for a couple of years right until (my daughters) get older and then I could get out and do a thing else’. Well I’m even now below,” she explained.
For Marcussen, the most effective factor of remaining an educator is assisting her pupils discover and grow to be the men and women they want to be.
“(I enjoy) observing them develop and bloom,” she said.
The Bethel resident enjoys the GT Plan and earning it a lot more of a satisfying working experience for her college students.
Marcussen has considered about retiring, but said she doesn’t know if she’s all set nonetheless since she enjoys her job so a great deal.
“I am genuinely hoping that if I retire I could arrive again parttime,” she reported. “I’m still going and I truly feel like I have a little something to give to the kids and I like what I do.”
She loves remaining a section of the Bethel group and she would like to thank her colleagues, her students’ dad and mom and the local community for their support and recognition of her function as an educator.
Every month, a Information-Star/ Patriot Car Group Trainer of the Thirty day period will be picked from a pool of candidates submitted for thing to consider at information-star.com/contests.
About this award
With this software, a News-Star/Patriot Vehicle Group Trainer of the Month will be chosen every thirty day period from a pool of candidates submitted for the award at information-star.com/contests. The every month winner receives a $100 Visa Reward Card and will be entered into the neighborhood Teacher of the Yr contest and a has opportunity to acquire an added $250 for their classroom.
Month-to-month neighborhood winners will also be entered into the Nationwide Instructor of the Month contest for a likelihood to get $5,000 for their classroom and $5,000 for their university. Winners of the Nationwide Teacher of the Month contest will be entered into the National Trainer of the 12 months contest and have a chance to gain $10,000 for them selves and $10,000 for their school.
