Teacher wins Nat'l Online Teacher award

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A southwest Virginia mathematics teacher has received the first National Online Teacher of the Year award.

Teresa Dove, of North Tazewell, teaches math online for Florida Virtual School. She received the award Wednesday from the two nonprofit groups that offered the prize, the Southern Regional Education Board and the International Association for K-12 Online Learning.

Dove has taught math to students in grades 6-12 at Florida Virtual School. She also is a literacy coordinator with the school, which serves more than 125,000 students and employs more than 1,100 teachers.

The other finalists were high school social studies teacher Gabrielle Bray from the Gwinnett County, Ga., Online Campus, and Steven Sproles, a Wise, Va., psychology and economics teacher with Virtual Virginia.