Teaching Medal Award Winner

Shelley Ota
Leeward

A professor of accounting, Shelley Ota looks for ways to engage students in the learning process, including hands-on activities. Ota once used Lego kits to demonstrate the accounting concept of costing the manufacturing process, and she also makes material relevant by providing connections to real world events.

Ota is an effective teacher who helps students reach their academic goals and is a role model for other faculty to become better teachers. Ota has been and continues to be an exceptional teacher, strong mentor, encouraging leader and an advocate for business students at Leeward Community College.