– Photo courtesy of Michele Anderson
Dr. Earl Lewis, former provost at Emory University and current president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, presents Michele Anderson, a history teacher with the Wayne-Wesland Community Schools, the 2014 National History Teacher of the Year Award.
By Kurt Anthony Krug
Legal News
Michele Anderson has not only been named the best history teacher in the nation, but also the first teacher in Michigan to receiver the prestigious honor from The HISTORY Channel and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
“It’s unbelievable,” said Anderson, 43, of New Boston, who is the recipient of the 2014 National History Teacher of the Year Award.
Anderson has been a teacher for 21 years and has taught history at John Glenn High School in the Wayne-Westland Community Schools for the last 17 years.
She earned her undergraduate degree in history and education and her graduate degree in history both from Eastern Michigan University.
David Ingham, the principal at John Glenn, nominated Anderson for this award on the heels of her winning the 2013 Annette and Jim McConnell History Educator Award for Excellence in Teaching History from the Michigan Council for History Education.
Each year, The HISTORY Channel and Gilder Lehrman recognize exemplary educators who use creative methods to make American history memorable through the use of primary source documents, artifacts, historic sites, legal cases, guest lectures from prominent historians, veterans, attorneys, et al, and other resources.
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