Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching
Teaching Medal Award Winner
Laura Lees
Maui
An instructor in English, Laura Lees is deeply passionate about teaching and gives confidence to all of her students by empowering them and creating an atmosphere of enjoyable learning. Lees excels with students with developmental needs and finds innovative and effective strategies to help them be successful in her class and their overall college experience.
Lees believes that all students have strengths and talents and thsat her role is to provide the guidance in facilitating and accentuating those traits to achieve personal and professional success. Lees exemplifies the qualities of an educator who lives and breathes excitement, intelligence and integrity.
The Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching is awarded by the Board of Regents as tribute to faculty members who exhibit an extraordinary level of subject mastery and scholarship, teaching effectiveness and creativity and personal values that benefit students. The board also awards the Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Research.
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