She teaches 2nd grade at McAllister Elementary in Richmond Hill.

Stephanie Deal is a special needs educator at Statesboro High School. But she teaches more, including business, language and life skills to her students.

Teaching is all about service and duty to help create better citizens and help students be all that they can be.

Catherine Richie teaches religion and scripture to students at St. Vincent’s Academy in Savannah.

These students are learning more about the written language and sentence structure in Taylor Culjan’s 9th grade English class at St. Vincent’s Academy in Savannah.

Middle school can be a tough transition for students, going from elementary school to getting ready for high school. That’s why it’s nice to have a teacher that knows exactly what her students are dealing with.

Kimberly Foxx teaches English and AP levels courses at Liberty County High School.

It was an exciting day for the children in Lori Melton’s Kindergarten class as they learned about what’s inside a pumpkin.

Lynn Reeves is this week's WTOC Top Teacher.

The first year of any job can be exciting, overwhelming, and many more emotions in between.

Ask any teacher why the teach, and they will always say the children. They want to see all their students succeed and are their biggest cheerleaders.

There is nothing like seeing the enthusiasm on the faces of children ready to learn, especially the younger ones. This week’s WTOC Top Teacher, keeps her students focused on learning but also having fun.

After 32 years in education, there’s not much that can catch music teacher Errol Roach in Hinesville off guard.

Teaching is all about building trust. Jacquelyn Sellers from Mill Creek Elementary School understands that very well.

For some students, Kindergarten is the first step on the road to education. This week’s WTOC Top Teacher is helping them start off on the right foot.

Osborne is happy to be back in class teaching the 4th Grade at Sand Hill Elementary School, but she’s also ready to get the kids serious about learning.

WTOC honors a Top Teacher every Wednesday. These are the teachers nominated by students and parents for making a difference in the classroom. We honored over 40 teachers this year. And as we celebrate the end of the school, we invited all of our top teachers together for a celebration luncheon.

Music has taken him many places, but Foster has come full circle and is actually is teaching in the place where he went to school. He can remember the pride he had when he was a member of the band.

One of the best ways for children to burn off energy is to exercise, and at Metter Elementary School, Vicki Bowen helps get her students moving.

This week’s WTOC Top Teacher was a long time elementary school teacher who made the switch to high school and is now teaching some of those same students she did years ago.

Wednesday, the students at St. Andrew’s School played “Name That Note” in John Pollock’s music class, and when they got the answer right, it was sheer joy.

Teachers love to share their knowledge and information with their students while building a strong support system for them.Crystal Strong, a teacher at Andrea B. Williams Elementary School, is no different.

When we are children, it seems like the best way to learn is through song, and for a music teacher, hearing children make music can be the most beautiful sound in the world.

If you are not making mistakes, you are not learning. That’s the attitude of this week’s WTOC Top Teacher.

There may be nothing as pure as the joy of seeing and hearing children playing on a perfect spring day in Savannah, and it was in this setting that we caught up with this week’s Top Teacher, Jane Madison, on Wilmington Island.

It’s not all about math problems in Spain’s classroom. It’s about life problems.

Trying to figure out math can be a problem in itself. That’s why you hope to have a teacher like Coastal Middle School’s Heather Blastick to help you find the answers.

This week’s WTOC Top Teacher comes from a long line of educators and wants her students to feel just like family.

It takes time, effort, and a lot of love to be a teacher, but it’s also something special when you teach in the town where you were born.

This is a second career for Singleton, who worked in the banking world before. She says that has helped her in her teaching.

This week’s Top Teacher grew up thinking she was going to be a lawyer. In fact, she was in her second year of law school at the University of Georgia when she realized it wasn’t for her.

It’s okay to write on the desks with a marker in Deonnah Davis' class at Southwest Elementary School in Savannah. because with a little work, it comes right off.

La’Shunda Posey has been teaching for 15 years, but this is her first year as a 1st Grade teacher.

Math can seem like a foreign language to some of us, but for Haywood Ellison, numbers just make sense.

This week’s WTOC Top Teacher has been a nurse for more than 15 years.

This week’s WTOC Top Teacher says she’s not in it for the income, but rather the outcome. She wants her students to fly high and know the sky is the limit.

Anna Swint is only at her second year teaching at Stilson Elementary School In Bulloch County but has already left her mark on her students.

The title of “Doctor” doesn’t usually end up before an elementary school teacher’s name, but teaching 5th Graders in Savannah is a way for Dr. Regina Meeler to pay it forward.

Teachers know you have to have faith in yourself and and in your students - and maybe a little faith from above.

Creating art can open up a whole new way for someone to express themselves, and helping to guide children on the journey is Terri Foote.

This week’s Top Teacher makes it a point to go above and beyond to make her students feel welcome at school.

4th Grade teacher Anna Kate Mahany may not have a permanent classroom right now at Marshpoint Elementary School because of Mother Nature, but she has deep roots dug in at the school, building a strong foundation for the future.

It takes patience and a positive attitude to be an effective teacher, and Maggie Taylor has the right amount of both.

Every child is a diamond in the rough, and the right teacher can help make them shine.

It’s never too late to change your career path, and for this week’s WTOC Top Teacher, that meant changing jobs to do what she always wanted.

The power of positive thinking can be contagious. This week’s WTOC Top Teacher hopes her students will catch it.

Once a Cadet, always a Cadet. The bond is strong between graduates of Benedictine Military School in Savannah.

It’s Spirit Week at Coastal Middle School in Savannah, and nobody has more spirit than Anne Bishop.

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Music teacher Heather Moore is trying to get her 1st graders at Jacob G. Smith Elementary in Savannah on the same beat.

New teachers always bring a lot of enthusiasm to the classroom, but this week's WTOC Top Teacher has been in training all of her life.

Third graders bring a lot of independence and enthusiasm to the classroom, so a teacher has to be up to the challenge.

Teachers are meant to inspire great things in their students, and for some students, that means growing up to become a teacher themselves.

Hatala is currently getting a 5th-grade class at George Washington Carver Elementary prepared to move on to the next big thing.

All kids need to succeed is a little help, a little hope, and someone who believes in them.