Fetherston Named Montana PE Teacher Of The Year
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Linda Kent, MT43 News Correspondent
MT43 News Correspondent |
Fetherston Named Montana PE Teacher of the Year
Linda Kent
MT43 News Correspondent
Eastgate and Prickly Pear elementary schools’ physical education teacher, Tana Fetherston, has been named Montana’s PE Teacher of the Year, Principal Brandon Crusat told East Helena school trustees on June 9.
“The main thing I want to highlight is her ability to take what teachers are working on in the classroom environment and really do a lot of that cross-curricular movement where kids are learning about what they’re learning about in class,” Crusat said. “She only has kids for 30 minutes, but it’s amazing to see what she can do in that 30 minutes. And in addition to that, she really places an emphasis on social-emotional learning. We are super lucky to have her.”
When asked by board chairman Scott Walters how she does it, Fetherston responded, “I feel fortunate to have started my career here and still going, especially with the [kindergarten]-2, they’re on a similar developmental level, so it’s been nice to just kind of to have been improving my lessons and teaching quality over all of these years. They keep me young.”
