2000 NCSTA Award Winners

District #4 Outstanding Science Teacher

Phylis Weeks---Dunn Middle School

Phylis Weeks is a math/science teacher at Dunn Middle School where she exemplifies the characteristics of a master teacher working beyond the scope of her classroom to promote quality science instruction. Using hands-on activities, technology projects, and coastal field trips, students become motivated and interested in science, many for the first time. Her organizational skills have helped insure the success of her schools' science fair and her students' projects in the competition. Their Science Olympiad team regularly advances to the state competition. And her involvement in the Empower program has brought the use of CBLs to her school and its students. We thanks Phylis for her contributions as a creative planner, a motivated doer, and a strong leader in science education in NC.