Teacher in King City is heading to Singapore

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John Miller, history teacher at Chalone Peaks Middle School in King City recently received a Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching grant to Singapore from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. The announcement was made on April 27. Miller was awarded County Teacher of the Year in 2016 and was also placed as a Finalist among the top 6 teachers in the State of California in 2016. Miller is 1 of over 30 people who will be travelling to Singapore for this teaching program during the 2018-19 school year. The project that Miller worked on that that helped him receive this honor involves games which help reach kids who may not be very high in their literacy skills, but could improve how they read, write and become more enthusiastic about class and learning. Miller said that he has been successful using games with his students at Chalone Peaks Middle School and is curious to see whether this will work with low literacy kids in Singapore. Miller said that he will heading to Singapore sometime in January of 2019 and will be there until April or May of that year.

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