Nominations for 2011-2012 LHS Teacher of the Year are due Friday, Dec. 9.
Students and staff members can pick up a nomination form in grade level offices, the Library, the Welcome Center, or from TOY Committee Chair Jeri Heth in Room 93. Once a form has been completed, it must be returned to a grade level office or Heth.
When nominations close, the TOY Committee will select the finalists based on an application submitted by those teachers who are nominated.
“Usually we’ll have 8 to 10 contestants,” said Heth, “and then the Committee narrows it down to about five finalists.”
The final decision for Teacher of the Year will be made by a vote of the faculty at their staff meeting on Feb. 17.
Whoever nominated the finalists will make a speech to the faculty of no longer than five minutes in support of their nominee. A vote will take place after all of the presentations.
The TOY is officially announcedc at the Academic Pep Assembly in March, but most people find out the winner before then.
“Usually teachers just tell their students that they won, and the information leaks out that way,” Heth said.
The Lafayette TOY will go on to compete for the title of Rockwood Teacher of the Year.
Last year’s Teacher of the Year was P.E. Department Chair Marty Margalski. He retired at the end of last year.
