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Carolyn Rankin receives NETS*T certification

Undertaking is a "Labor of Love for Technology,"
she says
 

On October 23, 2003, Carolyn Rankin of Staunton City Schools became the second teacher in the SVTC to be fully certified on the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS*T).  These NETS*T standards, published by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), are the basis on which teachers' ability to use technology to enhance teaching and learning are judged nationwide.

Carolyn is presently in her thirty-sixth year of teaching.  She teaches at Thomas C. McSwain Elementary School in Staunton.  Most of her teaching years have been spent with third-graders.

In the classroom, Carolyn uses technology to everyone’s advantage.  She uses digital photography, an interactive whiteboard, the laser disk and VCR players and has set up a mini lab of computers to enhance her lessons with educational programs, Internet searches, Accelerated Reader, multimedia presentations, and Edutest assessments.  When she teaches the inclusion class for third grade, her special needs students and her gifted students are all able to take advantage of technology tailored to fit each student’s learning style.  Most recently she has been instructing her students with the use of the mobile, wireless laptop lab loaned to her classroom by the Shenandoah Valley Technology Consortium.

Carolyn is a member of Alpha Delta Kappa Honorary Sorority and has served as JMU’s Educator of the Year.  She was also Staunton’s Teacher of the Year and Virginia’s District V Teacher of the Year in 1999.  Most recently she was named NTTI Teacher of the Year for 2003.  Carolyn has been a Master Teacher for NTTI for two years.

Carolyn was born and has lived all of her life in the Staunton area.  She is a graduate of Robert E. Lee High School and Radford State Teachers’ College where she received a B.S. degree in Elementary Education in 1967.  She enjoys spending time with her husband Thomas and her two children, Tonya and Tim.

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