Awards Teachers of the Year

SCOLT salutes the following teachers from the SCOLT Region selected by their state organizations as World Languages Teachers of the Year. Our honorees are outstanding teachers representing various languages and levels who have shown leadership and commitment to language education and, by their example, are some of our best advocates for world language studies.

SCOLT World Languages Teacher of the Year 2008-2009

Carmen Scoggins (Spanish)
Foreign Language Association of North Carolina (FLANC)
Watauga High School
Boone, NC

Carmen has a BA and an MA from Applachian State University in Spanish Education. She is a past president of FLANC, and has been actively involved in FLANC leadership for many years. She has done numerous outstanding presentations at state and regional conferences. Carmen likes to keep her teaching ideas fresh and her own language skills current; therefore, she practices The Three R’s: Rejuvenation, Revitalization, and Renewal. “Most of all, I want to inspire, humor, heal and humanize me students.”

The following world language teachers represented their states as Teachers of the Year at the 2008 SCOLT Conference:

Linda Meigs, French Teacher
Alabama Association of Foreign Language Teachers  (AAFLT)
Virgil Grissom HS (Huntsville AL)
Auburn University

Wendy Cunningham (Spanish)
Arkansas Foreign Language Teachers’ Association (AFLTA)
Searcy High School
Searcy, AR

Linda Markley (Spanish)
Florida Foreign Language Association  (FFLA)
West Shore Jr./Sr. High School
Melbourne, FL

Joy Lynn Tynes (French)
Foreign Language Association of Georgia  (FLAG)
Lassiter High School
Marietta, GA

Joan MacDonald  (German)
Tennessee Foreign Language Teachers’ Association (TFLTA)
Martin Luther King Magnet School
Nashville, TN

Anna Megyesi, WVFLTA
West Virginia Foreign Language Teachers’ Association (WVFLTA)
West Virginia Virtual School
Milton, WV

Gladys Collins (Spanish)
Virgin Islands Modern Foreign Languages Association VIMFLA
Addelita Cancryn Jr. High School
St. Thomas, VI