Megan Adams chosen by Ole Miss for student teacher honor
By Amanda Compton-Ortiz/The Tribune
Thursday, April 12, 2007 3:48 PM CDT
Megan Adams of Olive Branch, a student teacher at Pleasant Hill Elementary School since January, has received the University of Mississippi School of Education Robert W. Plants Student Teaching Award in Elementary Education.
The university's Department of Curriculum and Instruction presents the award each year to the outstanding student teacher in elementary education, in special education and in secondary education.
"I'm very shocked and excited," said Adams, 22, following her notification of the award by faculty members in the university's Department of Curriculum and Instruction.
"I feel like all of the hard work I've done is paying off. I have spent my entire life in school learning how to be a teacher and this award is reassuring that all I have learned has been well utilized."
Adams said she beleives she was born to be a teacher.
"When I was a kid, I used to play school. And I was a tough grader," she said with a laugh.
"Being a teacher is hard work, but when you know that as a teacher you can touch the lives and brighten the minds of many children, it is all worth it."
Adams, a 2003 graduate of Olive Branch High School, is currently taking classroom management courses at the Ole Miss DeSoto Center in Southaven. She will graduate from the university in May with an elementary education degree.
Adams is one of five student teachers at Pleasant Hill Elementary. She teaches fourth grade.
"I've been very impressed with Megan in the classroom," said Nikobia Wade, Pleasant Hill Elementary teacher who has been instructing Megan since she began her student teaching at the school earlier this year.
""She has done a fantastic job. I know she will make a great teacher."
Adams was nominated for the award by her university supervisor Dr. Nichelle Boyd, assistant professor of elementary education at the Ole Miss DeSoto Center.
"She is excellent," Boyd said of Megan's skills in the classroom. "She is very dedicated, professional, well-organized, prepared, and excited and serious about being a good teacher.
"When I observed her last week in the classroom, she was just so natural with the children. She has been a joy to teach and supervise. She is a wonderful student and student teacher.
"She not only wants children to learn but she wants them to enjoy learning. She really has a strong grasp on how to be an excellent elementary school teacher."
Adams will be recognized for the award today at the Honors Convocation on the University of Mississippi's main campus in Oxford.
She will also receive recognition at the university's School of Education graduation ceremony May 12.
Amanda Compton-Ortiz can be reached at (662) 895-6220, by fax at (662) 895-4377 or by e-mail at amanda@dctribune.com.
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