By rdnewsNOW staff

Innisfail teacher nominated for Prime Minister’s award of excellence

Dec 19, 2018 | 9:13 AM

Tyler Brooks has been nominated by grateful parents for the Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence in Early Childhood Education.

Brooks grew up in Innisfail and graduated from Innisfail High. He has been at River Valley School since the very beginning of his 15 year teaching career, and his three daughters are now students at the school.

“My grandparents and great-grandparents lived in Sundre and I’ve always loved it. I came here the day after I graduated from the University of Calgary and volunteered at the school until they gave me a teaching job!” said Brooks.

Tyler’s first degree is in music, and it was his choir director who pointed out that the kids would always gather around him after a performance.

“He called me the Pied Piper! I realized how much I liked being around kids, and I’ve loved teaching ever since I started,” said Brooks.

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“Receiving this nomination is great, but the truth is that this particular student and I just hit it off. I didn’t do anything extra, I just focused on a positive relationship like I do with every student. It does give me confidence about the things that I believe make a good teacher.

I take my job seriously and the students here know my expectations for academics. But I think my priority on social emotional learning is why I was nominated. It’s all about the students.”

The award recipients are expected to be announced later this winter.

(Sandy Bexon – Chinook’s Edge School Division)

by rdnewsNOW staff

Innisfail teacher nominated for Prime Minister’s award of excellence

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