Jeanne DelColle, a History teacher at Burlington County Institute of Technology, has been selected as the 2011-2012 New Jersey Teacher of the Year.
DelColle was named the 2011-2012 Burlington County Teacher of the Year, the 2009-2010 Teacher of the Year at Burlington County Institute of Technology, the 2010 Teacher of the Year for New Jersey Council of the Humanities, and the Burlington County Outstanding Woman of the Year for Education.
DelColle has been teaching for 15 years at the middle and high school levels. She has traveled extensively and has participated in environmental projects for Earthwatch and archaeological digs in Jordan.
DelColle has a master’s degree in Liberal Studies from Rutgers University. She earned her teacher certification in Liberal Arts with Social Studies at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. In addition, she has a postgraduate diploma in Politics and International Studies from the University of Warwick in England. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
DelColle will be a featured speaker at the 2011 NJEA Convention. She will be speaking at the Celebration of Excellence on Friday, November 11 at 1:30 p.m. in the Sheraton Crown Ballroom in Atlantic City.
As the New Jersey Teacher of the Year, DelColle will be a teacher leader. In January, she will begin a six-month sabbatical, courtesy of Educational Testing Service, to tour the state and talk about educational issues. NJEA will provide a rental car, equipped with EZ Pass, to help her travel across the state. In addition, NJEA will provide media training and support. SMART Technologies will be providing a SMART Board for her classroom. ING is contributing to her expenses.
NJEA would like to join with the New Jersey Department of Education in congratulating her on this award and her many other achievements.
Can you dig it?
DelColle is hailed for her accomplishments as a teacher and her remarkable ability to connect history and culture with the worlds of her students. In this video DelColle leads her students through an exercise in which decorated terra cotta flower pots are broken then reassembled just as an archaeological team would reconstruct a piece of ancient pottery.