Crestwood teacher and MHC alumnus wins provincial award

“They were really excited about that and I just hope that I’m showing them that with hard work that they can achieve anything,” she says.

To win the award, created by Alberta historian Rob Lennard and former Lt.-Gov Lois Mitchell, Kornelson had put together a presentation based on social studies, how she views the subject and how she would teach that to her students.

The presentation had to be about someone from Alberta’s history.

“So I picked Joseph Tyrrell and my whole presentation was based on him and his accomplishments so we talked about the Albertosaurus and the Royal Tyrrell Museum and just the significance that that has for Alberta’s history,” she explains. “And I was able to incorporate that in the classroom as well when we were talking about Alberta because that’s part of the Grade 4 curriculum.”

Kornelson says when teaching social studies she wants her students to understand where they live and how they fit into the world

“It’s stretched across everything that we do in the classroom. I teach students how to work together, we work on our social skills how to resolve conflict how to treat other people well,” she says. “We learn to understand and appreciate different places around the world so that we’re global citizens not just citizens just where we’re living.”

Kornelson, who was also named Medicine Hat College’s Student of the year in 2021, says this school year has been inspiring for her.

“Seeing the growth in the students and just how much they have changed and grown up since September until (now). I’ve just really loved this year.”

by Chris Brown

Crestwood teacher and MHC alumnus wins provincial award

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