Watauga High School Spanish Teacher Carmen Scoggins is the recipient of the national Award for Excellence in Foreign Language Instruction Using Technology, presented by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT).
Scoggins, who also teaches at ASU, said she is proud of the award “as a reflection of how the faculty at Watauga High School works very hard to serve our students as well as we possibly can, including through continuous innovations in the effective use of instructional technology.”
Scoggins was nominated for the award by two classes of her students that each wrote letters of recommendation. Her nomination was supported by letters from Principal Marshall Gasperson, Assistant Principal Kelly Walker, and other colleagues. Appropriately, the student letters were composed using technology (a Google documents application) to produce a single letter from each class.
Students in her Spanish I class praised Scoggins as “an incredible teacher who puts a lot of her time, money, and patience into making sure that we do the very best we can…The variety of resources she employs is diverse and extensive, which helps students develop a well-rounded technological familiarity.”
Spanish III students lauded Scoggins for instruction that demonstrates “not only her love of technology but also her skilled integration of technology into the classroom setting” and her ability to “select just the right tech tool for the job…She makes us watch and listen to and then reflect on our own videos and audio files and even though it is awful, we learn from our mistakes and improve our proficiency in the language… She implements current technologies during every class to provide fun, engaging, and creative lessons.”
Principal Gasperson described Scoggins as “a model teacher with a toolbox of technology tools that she shares with everyone she knows. Her colleagues turn to her for suggestions on using technology and her students rely on her to guide them through the Spanish-speaking world in a variety of ways.”
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