Innovative Teachers

In this page I'm highlighting some outstanding innovative champions from all over the education spectrum.

Andrew Douch

Our champion for this month is Andrew Douch, the Microsoft Victorian Innovative Teacher 2007 and the Microsoft Australian Innovative Teacher 2008. Andrew is a teacher at Wanganui Park Secondary College in Victoria and has 17 years experience in teaching Science.

Check out some of his innovative strategies at Andrew's web page.
Come back later and check out Andrew's special podcasts.

Andrew displays a multi faceted website at:	http://andrewdouch.com.au/
Andrew's next online presentation is on June 3 at:	http://knowledgebank.globalteacher.org.au/

Inspirational teachers

In this section I will highlight some outstanding contributions from some extraordinary teachers in the world.

Randy Pausch

Our inspirational teacher for the year is Randy Pausch, the professor whose Last Lecture changed millions of lives. What did Professor Randy Pausch do when asked this question:
What would you say if you knew you were going to die and had a chance to sum up everything that was most important to you?

That's the hypothetical question posed to the annual speaker of a lecture series commonly known as "The Last Lecture." But for Randy Pausch, the charismatic young professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, the question wasn't hypothetical.


The 47-year-old father of three small children had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer -- and given six months to live. Randy shares with us his inspirational story in many forms, choose from those below.

Randy Pausch delivers his last lecture	http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/LastLecture/
Randy Pausch tells his story	http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=4614281&page=1
Randy Pausch writes his book	http://abctvstore.seenon.com/detail.php?p=59181&pa=abc.com_promo_llecture

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