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Wilson named National FACS Teacher of the Year
CLOVER – Recognitions continue to pour in for Clover High School family and consumer sciences teacher (FACS) Christy Wilson, who was selected by American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS) as its National FACS Teacher of the Year.
Wilson will attend the AAFCS conference in St. Louis, Mo., in June, where she will formally be presented with the award.
Last month, Wilson, who is finishing her 16th year at Clover High School, was awarded the Charles Dickerson Community Service award during the South Carolina Teacher of the Year Banquet. Last spring, Wilson was named the South Carolina FACS Teacher of the Year making her eligible to be named the national teacher of the year.
She is presently serving as the district teacher of the year and will lead the district’s teacher forum in 2014-2015.
Throughout her career in Clover she has demonstrated a commitment to service learning and has developed a program she calls “It’s Sew Easy to Help Others” to give her students the opportunity to give back in various ways to the local community.
“I feel teaching students the value of community service is an essential element in teaching life skills,” she said. “Through the Family & Consumer Science curriculum, students get to demonstrate how to become leaders within the community.”
While teaching the skills required to be successful in design, nutrition, family life, and housing and interiors, Wilson’s students are thrust into opportunities to convert their knowledge into action. Rather than practice sewing on fabric remnants, she has her students refine their skills while designing and creating a myriad of items. Students make drawstring health kit bags for the Clover Area Assistance Center, “hope pillows” for children at the Ronald McDonald House and the York County Children’s Attention Home, lap blankets for wheelchair-bound patients at area Hospice centers and retirement homes, Christmas stockings for local charities, and “placement purses” for the Children’s Attention Home.
Her students are also involved annually in an international project in which dresses are sewn and donated to Dress a Girl Around the World, an organization that distributes the dresses to third world countries. Through her leadership with Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA), students participate in several projects including a “making dreams come true” prom dress drive for students who otherwise would not be able to attend prom due to financial issues. Evening dresses are given first to students at Clover High and then offered to students at other schools in the county. Wilson, a Winthrop University alumna says, that she “works through her students to make a difference in their families and communities. The content we cover affects their view of what healthy relationships are and they share these new ideas with their families and friends. The skills they acquire can be used in the workforce, their family units, and the community.”
Wilson will attend the AAFCS conference in St. Louis, Mo., in June, where she will formally be presented with the award.
Last month, Wilson, who is finishing her 16th year at Clover High School, was awarded the Charles Dickerson Community Service award during the South Carolina Teacher of the Year Banquet. Last spring, Wilson was named the South Carolina FACS Teacher of the Year making her eligible to be named the national teacher of the year.
She is presently serving as the district teacher of the year and will lead the district’s teacher forum in 2014-2015.
Throughout her career in Clover she has demonstrated a commitment to service learning and has developed a program she calls “It’s Sew Easy to Help Others” to give her students the opportunity to give back in various ways to the local community.
“I feel teaching students the value of community service is an essential element in teaching life skills,” she said. “Through the Family & Consumer Science curriculum, students get to demonstrate how to become leaders within the community.”
While teaching the skills required to be successful in design, nutrition, family life, and housing and interiors, Wilson’s students are thrust into opportunities to convert their knowledge into action. Rather than practice sewing on fabric remnants, she has her students refine their skills while designing and creating a myriad of items. Students make drawstring health kit bags for the Clover Area Assistance Center, “hope pillows” for children at the Ronald McDonald House and the York County Children’s Attention Home, lap blankets for wheelchair-bound patients at area Hospice centers and retirement homes, Christmas stockings for local charities, and “placement purses” for the Children’s Attention Home.
Her students are also involved annually in an international project in which dresses are sewn and donated to Dress a Girl Around the World, an organization that distributes the dresses to third world countries. Through her leadership with Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA), students participate in several projects including a “making dreams come true” prom dress drive for students who otherwise would not be able to attend prom due to financial issues. Evening dresses are given first to students at Clover High and then offered to students at other schools in the county. Wilson, a Winthrop University alumna says, that she “works through her students to make a difference in their families and communities. The content we cover affects their view of what healthy relationships are and they share these new ideas with their families and friends. The skills they acquire can be used in the workforce, their family units, and the community.”