Teacher’s award is ‘thank you’ from former pupil
Published: June 2, 2006
Lindsey Clark wanted to be an engineer when she started taking AP Calculus with Susan Dockery at Fort Mill High School.
Four years later, because of Dockery, Clark will be teaching math at Clover Junior High when school starts again this fall.
Dockery’s influence on Clark was so great that it changed her life. That was one reason Dockery was recently awarded The College of Charleston’s P-12 Teacher Recognition Award.
This is the inaugural year of The College of Charleston’s Teacher Recognition Award. Senior students at the college were invited to nominate inspirational teachers who played an important role in their lives.
Clark, who graduated in 2002 from Fort Mill High, nominated Dockery for the award last November and she recently received the award. Clark earned a degree in education from The College of Charleston earlier this month.
“I was honored,” Dockery said. “This is the greatest honor a teacher can have to have a student say you inspired their life. This is a huge deal.”
Dockery has been a middle school and high school teacher for 31 years. She was named Teacher of the Year twice, Fort Mill’s District Teacher of the Year in 2001, and a nominee for USA TODAY Teacher of the Year.
Clark said she didn’t even like AP Calculus at first when she entered Dockery’s class, but over the course of the class, her outlook changed.
“Teaching is a profession in which there is not much of a financial reward, and I feel that teachers like Mrs. Dockery keep striving so hard in hopes of influencing at least a handful of students in their classrooms,” Clark said.
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