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  • Essay / Megan Tompkins: My high school role model - 967

    She hesitantly asked “Could this be someone who has been passed over?” » It was his mother who had just died at the start of the school year following a brain disorder. After she said that, she started laughing and I could tell that was her way of keeping it together for the students in the room. Also for the other teacher who came “No one. You never come here. His personal and professional goals are essentially the same: to produce successful students. She gives a lot of care and attention to her students and wants them to succeed. When asked about her start in teaching, she surprised me and said “special education.” Everyone in the room looked equally surprised when she said this. In this context, she had to become interested in a broader subject and chose biology because of her science teacher in high school. She realized later in middle school that she didn't want to work in elementary school. She then chose to continue her studies in biology and teaching. One of her qualities as a teacher that she saw in herself was caring, but also stubbornness, which her youngest daughter Lexi said “Daddy would agree with.” Some might think that would be a bad thing, but she doesn't think so. It's something she says she got from her mother and it's a proud moment for her. Alongside school teaching, she also teaches in one of the local churches in