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The
Theodore William Richards Award for Excellence in Teaching
Secondary School Chemistry is intended to honor a teacher
in the Northeastern Section who, through innovation
and dedication, has inspired potential chemists, has
communicated chemistry to non-chemists, or has influenced
other teachers of chemistry. |
| Theodore William Richards |
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| Due to COVID-19, the Call For Nominations deadline for the 2020 Richards award has been extended to Friday, May 22, 2020. Information and nominations should be sent to to Anna Singer (secretary@nesacs.org) by the May 22 deadline. The selected teacher will be officially honored and
will receive both a $1,500 prize and a Certificate
of Recognition. We hope to give out the awards virtually by the first week of June. |
| Anyone,
including a prospective awardee, may make a nomination.
Colleagues, department heads, principals, students,
and former students are urged to consider the criteria
upon which the Section will base its selection and
to submit the name of a deserving individual. |
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criteria for excellence correspond broadly to the effectiveness
with which the teacher conveys the principles of chemistry
to students and to the influence that the teacher has
had on students and on other teachers. |
| The teacher's effectiveness
could be a direct result of innovative and exciting
techniques used to help students comprehend and remember
chemical concepts and descriptive material. It could
be a result of the special effort and dedication that
characterizes his or her interaction with students,
both academic and extra-curricular. It could also be
a result of a particular skill in communicating, especially
to students not intending to become chemists, the role
chemistry plays in their lives and in society. |
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influence of the teacher could be reflected in the
way he or she inspires the students or promotes the
better teaching of chemistry among other teachers.
The influence might have led to students choosing
chemistry as a career or might have prompted students
to choose an appropriate scientific specialty. It
might also have led to other teachers learning to
use, through workshops or written material, successful
new approaches taken by the nominee to demonstrate
laboratory experiments or to solve chemical problems. |
| The measure of such effectiveness
and influence could be reflected in the achievements
of his or her students or of students of other teachers
who have learned from him or her. It is assumed that
many students fortunate enough to have learned chemistry
from this teacher could win awards of their own and
would go on to become chemists. Such students might
have placed high in the Chemistry Olympiad, the Westinghouse
Science Talent Search, the Avery Ashdown High School
Examination, science fairs, etc. These achievements
might very well be more significant than the basic
abilities of the student would suggest. |
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| Theodore William Richards - Chemist of the Day (January 31)- PDF |
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| Previous Recipients of the Richards Award |
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2020
Richards Teaching Award Materials |
Announcement [PDF] |
Nomination Form [PDF] |
Letter [PDF] |
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The
2019 Richards Teaching Award was given to: |
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The award was presented
as part of the Education Night during the May, 2019 meeting |
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The
2018 Richards Teaching Award was given to: |
| Janice Compton |
Lexington High School |
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The award was presented
as part of the Education Night during the May
9, 2018 meeting |
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The
2017 Richards Teaching Award was given to: |
| Jay Chandler |
Wayland High School |
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The award was presented
as part of the Education Night during the May
11, 2017 meeting |
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The
2016 Richards Teaching Award was given to: |
| Judith Denise Ashworth |
Manchester Memorial High School |
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The award was presented
as part of the Education Night during the May
12, 2016 meeting |
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The
2015 Richards Teaching Award was given to: |
| Robert Kern |
Nobles and Greenough School |
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The award was presented
as part of the Education Night during the May
7, 2015 meeting |
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The
2014 Richards Teaching Award was given to: |
| Shawn Kenner |
Sharon High School |
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The award was presented
as part of the Education Night during the May
8, 2014 meeting |
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The
2013 Richards Teaching Award was given to: |
| Ann Lambert |
King Phillips High School |
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The award was presented
as part of the Education Night during the May
9, 2013 meeting |
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The
2012 Richards Teaching Award was given to: |
| Ann Wolf |
Plymouth High School |
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| Kathleen Markiewicz |
Boston Latin School |
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The award was presented
as part of the Education Night during the May
10, 2012 meeting |
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