Stephanie Gomer, teacher at Poolesville High School, has been named Maryland History Day High School Teacher of the Year. She will be honored at the Maryland History Day statewide awards ceremony on May 4.
Per Maryland Humanities: Maryland History Day High School Teacher of the Year Stephanie Gomer enjoys seeing the students’ excitement over their projects. She remembers fondly a group of girls who advanced to the National History Day contest created an exhibit about the 1920s “allowing for alternative lifestyles.”
“They put a curtain on their exhibit,” the English Teacher at Poolesville High School recalls, “and they got so excited like, ‘Miss Gomer. It’s not just like literal, it’s like the figurative curtain that they peeled back on these lifestyles,'” they told her about the people participating in what 1920s America considered “alternative.” Gomer continues: “I remember the excitement of them in class and when they came up. This is why we do it, these moments like this and you’re going to remember this. So that was an amazing, amazing moment, just seeing them work together.”
As the Maryland History Day Teachers of the Year, they are automatically nominated for National History Day’s Behring Teacher of the Year Award in their respective divisions. Read more on Stephanie Gomer on the Maryland Humanities website.
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