Martha
Dial is packing her bags for New York
City. She received the 2005 Merrill Lynch
Disting-uished Advisor Award, which honors a
teacher who has invested his or her time
and talent as a Stock Market Simulation
team advisor and successfully incorporated
economics in their classrooms.
"
‘Wow, I can't believe I won!’ were my first
words. I am very excited about having a
chance to participate,” says Dial. “It will be
great to have a picture or two to show my
classes next year of Mrs. Dial at the NYSE!”
Dial is a third- through sixth-grade gifted and
talented teacher at Hickory Grove-Sharon
Elementary School in Hickory Grove, S.C.
The Merrill Lynch Leadership Team selected Dial based upon
a blind reading of the entries. The winner was chosen based
on
the stock market activity that gave students the best oppor-tunity to learn about
the stock
market.
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Neither the name of the teacher
nor the school was revealed until after
a winner
was chosen.
Dial’s innovative approach impressed the committee. Using the book The
Toothpaste Millionaire, she led her sixth-grade students through the concepts
of consumer advertising and helped them learn why companies
must sell stocks and invest in order to be successful and to improve the economy.
Dial has received an expense-paid trip, including a $750 cash prize, to the New
York Stock Exchange Teachers’ Workshop this summer.
A full account of her experience will be included in the fall issue of For
What’s It’s Worth.
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