LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Christmas got here early for a Jackson County trainer who gained the Michigan Lottery’s Excellence in Training Award.
Kevin Barkholz teaches AP Language and Composition at Jackson Excessive College, and one in every of his college students nominated him for the award.
Kevin Barkholz, winner of the Michigan Lottery’s Excellence in Training Award
“Mr. Barkholz has made a big impact on not just my education, but my life in general. He has passion and genuine care in his work and that is obvious in the way that he teaches. He teaches not to hand out assignments and grade them, but to actually get us to understand the information so we can apply it in different categories of our lives. He has completely changed my perspective of learning, and how to be a student. I have never been so impacted by a teacher in my 13 years of grade school like he has impacted me. I will forever be grateful and remember the skills he has taught me. He pushed me and all of his other students out of our comfort zone, and it forced us to consistently improve our writing and listening skills. I cannot think of a better teacher to receive this award.”
Scholar nomination letter
Barkolz thanks the lecturers he had in his previous for uplifting him to pursue a profession in training.
“Some of the personalities in my schooling helped shape my appreciation not just for learning, but opportunity. When we are young, we all need adults in our lives that give us chances to succeed, but more importantly, chances to fail. I was fortunate to have teachers, coaches, and professors that challenged me, yet also found ways to share their humility and patience.”
The Michigan Lottery says every winner of the weekly award will obtain a $2,000 money prize. In direction of the tip of the college yr, one of many weekly award winners will likely be chosen to obtain the Lottery’s Educator of the 12 months award and they’re going to get a $10,000 money prize.
The Michigan Lottery began the Excellence in Training Awards in 2014 to acknowledge excellent public faculty lecturers across the state through the faculty yr.
