WESTMINSTER : Language Instructor Teacher of the Year
A teacher who helped her school win a top state award for language arts has been named Westminster School District’s Teacher of the Year.
Willis Warner Middle School teacher Marilyne Coats, 49, won the honor, partly for her work on the campus’ Language Arts Demonstration Program, spokeswoman Audrey Brown said.
The program trained teachers to adopt innovative instructional methods to improve students’ language skills. The five-year, state-funded project recently received a prestigious first-place Golden Bell Award from the California School Boards Assn. earlier this year, Brown said.
“I am very happy,” said Coats, who joined the district in 1983. “It’s quite an honor to be selected from the fine teachers that we have today. I have a lot of competition.”
Assistant Supt. Barbara Fileto praised Coats as “an outstanding role model for all the teachers in our district. She’s energetic, devoted to her students and very willing to open her classroom to new and different teaching methods.”
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