Kate Physician named Chesterfield County’s Instructor of the 12 months

CHESTERFIELD Co., Va. (WWBT) -A specialty middle teacher at Monocan Excessive Faculty has been awarded Chesterfield County’s Instructor of the 12 months for the 2023 college 12 months.

Kate Physician, who teaches within the Well being Professions and Therapies Specialty Middle at Monacan, was chosen by the county out of a pool of nominees from elementary, center and excessive faculties within the county. Physician now competes for Area 1 Instructor of the 12 months honors by the Virginia Division of Schooling.

“In each college and at each degree, sure lecturers stand out. These lecturers display care and compassion, stress the significance of rigor and relationships and do the additional issues obligatory to assist transfer our college students towards success. They’re dedicated to being recreation changers,” Superintendent Mervin Daugherty wrote in letters he offered to the district’s prime Lecturers of the 12 months, together with flowers, balloons, banners and truffles throughout shock visits on Wednesday.

Physician teaches sports activities drugs, train science and introduction to well being and medical science at Monacan. She’s been a Chesterfield County educator since 2005 and found her ardour for schooling whereas working as an athletic coach.

Monacan Excessive Principal William Broyles praised Physician’s means to inspire college students by connecting real-world experiences with classroom instruction.

“The encouragement and vitality Ms. Physician places forth in working by tough scientific materials is unmistakable. … [And] she is going to draw on a wealth {of professional} connections to develop seminars and make the most of visitor presenters. Her work doesn’t cease within the educational classroom both, as she is devoted to working together with her college students within the HOSA [Future Health Professionals] co-curricular program on the college, state, and nationwide ranges. … Her work with the HOSA college students … develops leaders who’re assured of their data, means to current, and lead.”

Physician earned a bachelor’s diploma in athletic coaching from East Carolina College after graduating from Midlothian Excessive Faculty and later earned a bachelor’s diploma in schooling from Virginia Commonwealth College.

Chesterfield County Public Colleges Instructor of the 12 months will not be the one 2023 award Physician has received. She was lately chosen as Athletic Coaching Educator of the 12 months by the Virginia Athletic Trainers’ Affiliation, the primary time the award has gone to a secondary college educator.

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