Sherry King Named Moultrie Tech’s 2010 Instructor of the Year
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Sherry King, Surgical Technology instructor at Moultrie Technical College’s Tifton Campus, was chosen by her peers as the 2010 Instructor of the Year and will represent the college on a regional and state level in the Rick Perkins Award for Excellence in Technical Instruction competition. |
Moultrie Technical College (MTC) Surgical Technology instructor and program chair Sherry King of Fitzgerald was recently selected by her peers at MTC as the school’s nominee for the state Rick Perkins Award for Excellence in Technical Instruction.
For King, who teaches at the college’s Tifton campus, this is not the first time she has been honored with such a designation. She was named as the Instructor of Year at East Central Technical College in Fitzgerald in 1999 and went on to compete as a state finalist.
King was instrumental in seeing the MTC Surgical Technology program become both nationally accredited and nationally ranked among the top five programs in the United States in 2008.
“Considering the group of distinguished, dedicated instructors teaching at Moultrie Technical College, I am extremely honored to have been chosen to represent the college and to have the privilege to share my passion for technical education with others,” said King.
Named in memory of Thomas “Rick” Perkins, an instructor at West Central Technical College who received the Department of Technical & Adult Education Commissioner’s Award of Excellence prior to his untimely death, the award is the Technical College System of Georgia’s version of an “instructor of the year” honor. It is presented to the person who has shown the most dedication to the job, commitment to students, and skill in the classroom.
Annually, all 28 technical colleges, plus the four Regents system schools with technical divisions, nominate an instructor to represent their colleges for the statewide honor. Nominees then compete on a regional basis.
King will compete with representatives from Albany, East Central, South Georgia, Southwest Georgia and Valdosta Technical Colleges for the Southwest Georgia consortia title later this spring, and finalists will go on to compete for the state honor.
The state Rick Perkins Award winner serves as an ambassador for technical education in Georgia. He or she will make many public appearances throughout the year including addresses to the Georgia General Assembly, the Governor, and the Georgia Technical College System Leadership Conference in October.
King, who was the first Surgical Technology program instructor at MTC when the program opened its doors in Tifton in 2004, is a registered nurse and a board certified surgical technologist. She graduated in 1981 with an associate degree in home economics technology with a major in child and family development from Abraham Baldwin College. Her educational focus then changed to the healthcare field when she completed course work on a practical nursing diploma at Ben Hill-Irwin Technical Institute, now known as East Central Technical College, in 1986.
She persisted in obtaining additional credentials in the medical field by completing an associate degree in science with a major in nursing from South Georgia College in Douglas in 1991 and a surgical technology diploma from Gulf Coast Community College in Panama City, Florida, in 2008.
Prior to joining the faculty at Moultrie Tech in 2003, King served as an allied health instructor at East Central Tech from 1992 to 2003, as a weekend nursing supervisor at Fitzgerald Nursing Home from 1997 to 2002, and as a staff nurse at Dorminey Medical Center from 1986 to 1992. She is also a certified basic life support instructor for the American Heart Association.
MTC Radiologic Technology instructor Alfred Jones and English instructor Wanda Vickers, both of the Moultrie Campus, were also finalists for the 2010 award at Moultrie Tech.
