Spanish Teacher Daryl Boeckers was recently awarded the 2008 TIES ( Technology Information Education Services) Exceptional Teacher Award. Boeckers, along with Shelly Geurts of the Phoenix Learning Center were chosen by Superintendent James Bauck for the award.
Boeckers was chosen for the award for his comprehensive use of Course Web (through Moodle). He has students use Course Web to think about, ask, and answer questions on certain topics, using the upper levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Students in his language classes record their oral exams, from which Boeckers sends one-on-one feedback to them, which helps them improve their speaking. He has also helped create an online community that 35 language teachers use to collaborate and share the best teaching practices.
“Mr. Boeckers is a great teacher,” said Sophomore Michelle Lang, ” In class he does a great job making sure we know what we need to know. Then outside of class he still provides us with more information that makes learning languages that much easier.”
