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Teacher Spotlight: Patteson

     

    Why did you decide to become a teacher?

    My mom was a special education teacher.  I “played school” during the summer with my cousin Amy (we’d both make lesson plans from a reading book named Pug and we’d even grade papers during our conference time).  We both became teachers.

    Have you taught anywhere? Where?

    I was a teaching assistant for the freshman survey course of U.S. History for 2 ½ years at Oklahoma State.  My first high school teaching job was at West High School in West, Texas.  I had the unusual experience of teaching with my own high school teachers.  I could never bring myself to call my biology teacher, Mrs. Siems, by her first name Bernice.  I also taught govt/econ to my own Sophomore English teacher’s daughter!  Eating lunch in the teacher workroom was the weirdest.

     What is your favorite part about being a teacher?

    My favorite part about teaching is that every day is different!  I get to teach and learn from amazing students.  I have had awesome, inspiring teams with which I’ve gotten to work.  With social studies I even get variety in my content: architecture, politics, art, science, math, literature…it is all in our history!

     When you were in school, what was your favorite subject? Why?

    My favorite part about teaching is that every day is different!  I get to teach and learn from amazing students.  I have had awesome, inspiring teams with which I’ve gotten to work.  With social studies I even get variety in my content: architecture, politics, art, science, math, literature…it is all in our history!

     

    I love math!  I is puzzles and logic and fun—geometry is especially beautiful.

     

    What is one fun fact about yourself?

     

    I have never lived more than 17 miles off I-35…Waco, West, Austin, Waco, Stillwater, Waco, Austin…but I love to travel.  New Zealand has been my favorite trip so far.

     

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    Abby Knowles, Feature Editor, Ads Manager
    Abby Knowles is four year member and a three year editor of the Vandegrift Voice Newspaper. She is involved in NHS, SNHS, Interact, and UIL Journalism. Her favorite stories to write are feature stories. On the weekends, she can be found volunteering and sleeping.

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