Jim Schurter was honoured with a Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 1994, but it’s more than just his classroom work that distinguishes his efforts on behalf of students and mathematics education.
He has been very involved with the Canadian Mathematics Competition as a marker for the Euclid and Descartes contests, and as a problems writer for the Pascal, Cayley and Fermat contests. Jim helped create Perth County’s kindergarten to grade 10 mathematics curriculum, and has had a long association with the G.V.M.A.
Jim’s teaching career was spent at Listowel D.S.S. where he headed the mathematics department and was a soccer and wrestling coach. He grew up in Bruce County, attending S.S. No. 3, Greenock Township, then Sacred Heart H.S. and Walkerton D.S.S., both in Walkerton. He then studied at Wilfred Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.
His spare time is often spent golfing, gardening, walking or working with the Knights of Columbus.