Interview With Philip Bigler
Interview With Philip Bigler
Description:
Philip Bigler teaches history and social studies at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Northern Virginia. He began teaching more than twenty years ago and has taught at a number of different high schools in the Washington metropolitan area. He also took a two-year break from his teaching to serve as historian for Arlington National Cemetery. That work lled to his publication of two of his four books: Hostile Fire:The Life and Death of Lt. Sharon Ann Lane and In Honored Glory: Arlington National Cemetery, the Final Post Bigler's teaching talents have been recognized with the Washington Post Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teaching Award, the Hodgson Award for Outstanding Teaching of Social Studies, the Norma Dektor Award for most Influential Teacher at McLean High School, and the United States Capitol Historical Society Outstanding Teacher/Historian Award. In 1998, he was named “National Teacher of the Year” in the annual competition sponsored by The Council of Chief State School Officers and Scholastic, Inc.
Education Levels:
9, 10, 11, 12, Higher education
Subject:
Careers, United States History
Resource Type:
Primary source
Medium:
Text/HTML
Fee Status:
Free
Beneficiary:
Students
Online provider:
History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web
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