September 24
I have been lucky enough to be seconded twice to the Media Team at my primary employer building upon my experience as a freelance writer. Both secondments were centred around lending support in the lead-up to the TEACHX Awards.
The Queensland College of Teachers is the registration authority for teachers in the state of Queensland. Every year they do a call out for nominations of teachers from the community.
In 2019, the QCT received over 200 nominations and during my secondment I wrote pieces on 115 of the nominees while others were tasked to write the rest.
This year there were almost 400 nominations received of which 74 were shortlisted.
Out of those 74 shortlisted I wrote pieces based off their nomination forms on 24 of them.
They are as follows according to their nomination category.
Excellence in Teaching
Jodi Audoss
Mathew Lourigan
Excellent Leadership in Teaching and Learning
Excellence in Beginning to Teach
Naomi Kitching
Innovation in Teaching
Gavin Jones
Cameron Lynch
Brett Murphy
Outstanding Contribution to Teaching
John Alloway
Pearl Donovan
John Aloizos
Outstanding Contribution to School Community
Chantelle Amson
Ron Armstrong
Carly Bell
The TEACHX Awards are just one way to celebrate the hard work and challenges teachers face and the appreciation that we have for the role they perform in our society. I was grateful to write about them and celebrate them along with so many other hard working and talented colleagues.
The publishing of the shortlisted nominees was the culmination of three weeks of intense work but already I was consumed with interviewing and writing about the Finalists in each category.
Hence there are links to only shortlisted nominees that I wrote about that did not later become Finalists who were interviewed and written about by me or my manager.
If you click on any of the links you will find a story about an extraordinary teacher and person.
-Lloyd Marken
Nice work, Lloyd.
Thanks Don. 🙂
Well done with the bios, and good luck to all the nominees.
Best wishes, Pete.
Thank you, it was amazing to read and write about them. They are truly wonderful teachers. Best wishes Pete.