Updated at 1:50 p.m., Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Kaneohe teacher earns national award
Advertiser Staff
A Kane'ohe special-education teacher has earned the National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators' Outstanding Early Childhood Practitioner Award.The award was presented in November, a University of Hawai'i news release said.
Dr. Jonathan Gillentine has been a special-education teacher at Benjamin Parker Elementary School for the past 26 years, teaching preschool inclusion since 1994.
The award is designed to recognize meritorious leadership and professionalism in preservice and inservice early childhood teacher education through demonstrated excellence in teaching practice and support of teacher education.
Since 1983, Gillentine has mentored 30 teachers who were newly placed in special education positions.
He earned both his MEd in Special Education and Ph.D. in Curriculum Studies from the College of Education at UH-Manoa.
Gillentine also created and facilitated two courses for the DOE's Professional Development & Educational Research Institute.
