2004 Wake County Teacher of the Year
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Marcella Cox |
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2004 Finalists
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Marcella Cox
Davis Drive Middle
Cox is a sixth-grade social studies teacher at Davis Drive
Middle School. She has been teaching at Davis Drive for six
years and has been a teacher for 11 years.
She is a team leader, on the school improvement team, leadership team, social studies club sponsor and a mentor teacher. She earned National Board Certification in November 2000.
Cox says history and social studies are her passion.
"Through simulations, cooperative group work, friendly competition, games, delving into moral dilemmas, considering various perspectives and allowing for independent study, I stimulate my students to become caught up in the subject matter, to question and rethink their own beliefs, and to contemplate the "what ifs" in history and contemporary times," Cox said. "I plan each of my units to involve cognitive acquisition assignments with depths of thought, skills-based activities, and emotional responses. Students are actively involved in the social studies classroom that I teach."
Cox's classes have visited residents of the Parkway Retirement Center and students of the Governor Morehead School for the Blind. She has been an active supporter of the Battaglino Charity Fund, which benefits the UNC Children's Hospital, Exploris Museum, Make-A-Wish Foundation and the Rochester, N.Y. Museum and Science Center.
Davis Drive Middle Teacher is Wake County Teacher of the Year
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