Tim Vaughan, innovation as well as engineering education and learning teacher at Marsteller Middle School, has been named the 2021 Virginia Intermediate School Innovation Education Teacher of the Year.The honor
was presented at the Virginia Innovation and Design Education Association summertime seminar, held practically this year.Vaughan was nominated for neighborhood recognition by his colleagues as well as was then picked at the Northern Virginia regional level earlier this year, placing him in the competing the state award. This honor is just one of the highest possible honors offered to technology and also engineering education teachers as well as acknowledges a teacher’s exceptional contributions to the career as well as to students.Prince William County
Public Schools Superintendent LaTanya McDade presented a recognition plaque to Vaughan in his classroom on the very first day of school. He will certainly additionally obtain the International Innovation and Design Educators Organization Instructor Excellence Honor at the association’s yearly conference in Orlando, Fla., in March.While Vaughan constantly had a passion in design, he claimed his grandmother’s example led him to education.”My granny was a primary school instructor in Ireland; she inspired me to obtain associated with teaching,”stated Vaughan, who has actually been educating at Marsteller Center for almost twenty years and educated in Dublin, Ireland, for 13 years prior to that.” My senior high school design educator in Ireland motivated me to get associated with the [
design] field,”he added.”With the enhancement of innovation, the area is constantly changing, and also you need to develop; I like it due to the fact that you have to keep adapting to remain existing.”At Marsteller, Vaughan additionally functions as the department chair for exploratory arts as well as international languages. In 2020, he created a mentoring program for trainees at the institution, and he was included in a story on ABC News concerning a digital beehive tour video clip he developed for science coworkers as well as trainees.