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George Shell Award 2009: Donna Hall |
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Donna knows that it is important to understand how children learn mathematics from the “ground up” so she has worked toward degrees in mathematics and education resulting in certification in grades k-12. Her first teaching job was as a kindergarten teacher in New York State. She was amazed at how much those little people could learn in one year and how easily they took to math-oriented activities. After that year personal circumstances brought Donna to Utah where she began working at Park City High School in 1997. Donna’s career in Park City has run the gambit - from teaching Alternative Education in Mathematics to Calculus and Concurrent Enrollment classes. As department chairperson Donna has been influential in creating specialized classes for the subgroup populations including a specialized Geometry and Math Skills class. |
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George Shell Award 2008: Michelle Jones |
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Michelle started her teaching career when she was a junior in high school. She struggled to understand the concepts when her teacher was explaining them, so she would read the textbook and teach herself. Michelle would then teach a few of her fellow classmates. "When I saw that those students understood, it was so cool!" she remembers. She decided then and there that she wanted to become a math teacher. She officially started my teaching career at Timpanogos High School, where she spent her first two years. She has been teaching at Pleasant Grove Jr. High School for the past nine years, minus one year that she took off to work at the district office as the district math specialist. She believes that all students can learn and that it is our responsibility to help them be partners with success. |
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