SALT LAKE CITY - A Salt Lake City elementary teacher received a big national honor Tuesday.
Tim Bailey, a history teacher at Escalante Elementary School in Salt Lake City, has been named the 2009 Gilder Lehrman National History Teacher of the Year.
"Tim Bailey is dedicated to teaching students at an early age that the study of American history is not only essential but tremendously rewarding. His steady enthusiasm in the classroom is nothing short of exceptional," said Lesley S. Herrmann, executive director of the Gilder Lehrman Institute.
Tim Bailey began his teaching career in 1989, and obtained both his undergraduate and masters degree in education from the University of Utah, where he has served as an adjunct faculty member and teacher mentor for the past eight years. He has written three American history workbooks focused on primary sources for elementary classrooms in the Easy Simulations series, published in 2008 by Scholastic. A Fulbright Scholar in 2003, he has earned several awards from the state of Utah, the Salt Lake City school district, and others.
Bailey will accept the $10,000 award at a ceremony in his honor later this winter.
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