Jeremy Hilburn is the WCE recipient of the 2024 Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award. The award recognizes all aspects of excellence in teaching and in teaching-related activities that foster students' desire for lifetime learning and success. Dr. Hilburn is a professor and coordinator of WCE’s Master of Arts in Teaching in Middle Grades Education program.
Carol McNulty, interim dean of UNCW’s Watson College of Education, presented the award at the inaugural UNCW Faculty Awards Celebration on May 2.
"We are so pleased to award Dr. Jeremy Hilburn the 2024 Chancellors Teaching Excellence Award,” Dr. McNulty said. ”In teaching his students to become effective middle grades educators, he consistently engages them in exercising choice in their assignments, varied presentation methods, and in multiple formats of performative assessments. He serves as a model for the ways we hope those students will in turn interact with their middle grades students."
Hilburn earned a B.A. in History at UNCW in 1999. He began his career as a middle grades social studies teacher in Fayetteville, NC. While teaching, he took summer classes at Teachers College, Columbia University where he earned an M.A. in Social Studies Education. He later completed his Ph.D. at UNC Chapel Hill before joining the faculty at UNCW in 2012.
Dr. Hilburn teaches a range of courses in the middle grades program. His primary research interest falls into several interconnected strands, broadly related to immigration and social studies education. A second strand relates to global education, especially teaching global issues such as migration and conflict.
“Joining the faculty was actually a homecoming for me,” Hilburn said. “I enjoy teaching a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses, and it’s an honor to have my teaching recognized with the Chancellor’s Award.”
WCE’s Middle Grades Education programs are designed for students who would like to teach language arts, math, science and/or social studies in grades 6-9. The College offers a degree program for undergraduate students and a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program for students with bachelor’s degree in any field.
Both programs feature small class sizes, dedicated faculty with classroom teaching experience, and the opportunity to complete field experiences in at least three middle schools. During the final semester, students participate in full-time student teaching under the guidance of a mentor teacher and faculty supervisor.
For more information visit the program websites:
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