Prime Minister's Awards for teaching Excellence

Angeleen Musyj

Year: 2008 – Province: Alberta

Certificate of Excellence Recipients

School: Rendell Park Elementary School
3401-57 Avenue
Lloydminster Alberta
T9V 2K6

Principal: Scott Wouters
School Telephone: 780-875-7278
School Fax: 780-875-7281
School Email: scott.wouters@lpsd.ca
School Website: http://rendellpark.lpsd.ca
Subjects and Grades Taught: Kindergarten

Teaching Approach

  • Design and develop programs that meet students' specific academic, intellectual and social needs.
  • Help students learn, develop and practice skills in a stimulating environment that features group work, interactive games, reading buddies and other social activities.
  • Create materials for parents to use to learn about their children's progress and to allow them to contribute to their child's learning using new technology.

Outstanding Achievements

  • Created Kindergarten podcasts: children and parents can log on and participate in past lessons. Students may also do independent activities, such as singing aloud along with the podcasts.
  • Created the Kindergarten literacy program: parents and students are invited to a workshop in June that prepares them for their first school experience. After the sessions are over, parents and children visit the classroom and use the various learning activity stations. They also receive a take-home literacy kit.
  • Designed and implemented the Kindergarten-Grade 1 looping project, so she can continue her rich literacy-based program with her Kindergarten students in the next grade.

Rave Reviews

"Mrs. Musyj is dynamic and knowledgeable … . She has tons of great ideas for designing creative and productive centres! She has lots of enthusiasm and is a joy to work with as part of a team." Teacher assistant

"Mrs. Musyj's passion for teaching children shone. She positively enforced, for us as parents, insight into why the children were being taught what they were. Also, [she showed] us how to aid in the development of our child's learning." Parent