{"id":493,"date":"2014-05-29T16:36:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T15:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/?p=493"},"modified":"2014-05-29T16:37:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T15:37:14","slug":"493","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2014\/05\/29\/493\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus success at the Kent Teacher of the Year Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Purland, who graduated from Kent in 2009 with a degree in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/smsas\/\">Mathematics <\/a>and has taught at Hartsdown Academy in Margate for the past four and a half years, has been named as district champion in the Top Maths Teacher category at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentonline.co.uk\/lifestyle\/charities\/whos-top-of-the-class-17449\/\">Kent Teacher of the Year Awards<\/a>. The Awards, organised by the KM Charity Team in partnership with the KM Group, celebrate excellence and achievements in schools.<\/p>\n<p>Adam was nominated by a Year 11 student, who was able to improve his grade from F to B in just 6 months thanks to his after school learning sessions with Adam.<br \/>\nAdam said: &#8220;Being nominated was a complete surprise. The most important thing for me is to build strong relationships with students so that they really enjoy Maths, which is a great subject. The reason we all teach is to make a positive difference and it is really gratifying when you see students reach their potential, even if it takes a lot of perseverance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Executive head teacher of Hartsdown Academy, Andy Somers, said: &#8220;Adam\u2019s reward is richly deserved. He is a dedicated and enthusiastic teacher and the Hartsdown family are very proud of his achievement.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Purland, who graduated from Kent in 2009 with a degree in Mathematics and has taught at Hartsdown Academy in Margate for the past four &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2014\/05\/29\/493\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34788,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34788"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}