Fine Arts Center’s Anne Tromsness is Greenville County Schools’ 2021-2022 teacher of the year

Greenville County Schools has announced its Teacher of the Year for 2021-2022 at a celebration on Thursday, Aug. 12. The award went to Anne Tromsness who teaches theater at the Fine Arts Center.

“[My passion for arts is] a lifelong love and I want to share that love with my students. Engaging with imagination is a limitless resource, and everybody comes in with something different, so the fact that we get to share that and manifest together is a pretty awesome honor to do every day,” Tromsness said.

The big moment is here…the 2021-22 GCS Teacher of the Year is…
Anne Tromsness, Theatre teacher at the Fine Arts Center announced as the 2021-22 GCS Teacher of the Year! Congratulations Anne! #gcstoy pic.twitter.com/CWpjDKaHCh

— Greenville County Schools (@gcschools) August 12, 2021

The first runner-up for the award went to Christian Scott. Scott is the band director at Hillcrest Middle School. Sarah Poole, a fifth grade teacher at Taylors Elementary School, was the second runner-up. The district selected Anna Hasekamp, who teaches seventh grade English language arts and social studies at Greenville Middle Academy, as third runner-up.

Competition for the school district’s Teacher of the Year award began last year when the schools and centers chose their Teachers of the Year. Those teachers then submitted an application to a selection committee that chose the 10 finalists.

The finalists then went through an interview and were observed in the classroom. They were rated by the judging committee by knowledge of content, interactions with students, their communication skills and their teaching.