Jeff Becker’s impact as the digital media technology teacher at Island Coast High School has garnered him the 2018 Lee County Teacher of the Year. His career started as a school guidance counselor, and then he became a teacher when he realized it was a position that would allow for a closer relationship with his students. In Becker’s first year teaching, his students won the Best High School News Show at the Lee County Film Festival Awards.
Becker joins us in the studio to discuss his teaching career, and what it means to him to be named ‘Teacher of the Year.’