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A West Yorkshire teacher who overcame dyslexia to achieve his career dream has been named the most outstanding new teacher in the country.
Edward Vickerman (pictured), head of business at The Freeston Business and Enterprise College in Normanton, was given the title at the Teaching Awards in London.
Because of his dyslexia, the 26-year-old said he was sidelined at school and not expected to achieve much.
He was described by a colleague as a "whirlwind" in the classroom.
While working in the hotel industry, Mr Vickerman discovered ways of overcoming his dyslexia and achieved a degree in hotel management, which set him on the road to success.
He then decided to pursue his dream of becoming a teacher and chose to take a postgraduate teaching qualification.
Colleagues and students said Mr Vickerman was an "inspiration to work with" and had invigorated the department, introducing new courses to match student needs.
Mr Vickerman said he gets round his dyslexia by using new technology in lessons rather than communicating by writing.
The Teaching Awards, founded by Lord Puttnam 11 years ago, are open to every school in the UK and reward excellent teachers, head teachers, teaching assistants, governors and sustainable schools.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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