MCPS Teacher of The Year

Rebecca (Becky) Bentley is a 1994 graduate of Pelham High School and a 2009 graduate of Albany State University where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Health and Physical Education. She has been teaching in the Mitchell County School System since January 2011. She has been the Health and Physical Education teacher at Mitchell County Primary School for the past 13.5 years where she has touched the lives of many students and has become affectionately known as Ms. Coach Bentley. She has also coached softball, volleyball, girls’ basketball, and tennis throughout the years. She incorporates activities into her daily lessons to reinforce classroom subject matters such as Sight Word Showdowns and Math Fact Fun. Though Coach Bentley believes academics are the primary basis for success, she also wants her students to know they can excel in other areas such as physical education and sports. Students not only learn how to win in her classes, but they also learn how to lose—a lesson that goes way beyond primary school ages. She goes above and beyond to reach her students and to make sure they feel important by greeting them by name and with a smile. When students leave the Primary School, Coach Bentley’s goal is for them to move to the next
level with confidence.