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I would highly recommend Samford
University's secondary ed program,
because of the intimacy of the
professors and the students and the
group that you go with. Constantly
challenging each other. Constantly
growing together. Everyone in the
Birmingham community respects Samford's
name and Samford University, especially
the school education, I mean we've been
around for over 100 years. When you step
foot into that classroom in your first
year of teaching which can be very
difficult to be very intimidating you're
about as prepared as you can be. You
can't put a price on how valuable that
is just to have a credible reputation for
where you're coming from.
My recent experience in the classroom I
feel like can be a true asset to our
students simply because, when they come
to me with questions I've been there I
have walked the road that they are
walking. It wasn't too long ago that I
was in their exact same shoes. Our goal
in our program is that it's helping our
students to be successful and to achieve
and to feel like that they were always
on the cutting edge of education.
Definitely prepared me for the classroom.
There was lots of clinical experience,
there was lots of opportunities to get a
wide variety of experiences. Inner city
school, suburban schools, semi rural
schools, high schools, middle schools.
Samford especially the secondary
education program has shown me that value
of leadership, and it has shown me to always
go the extra mile for people like my
teachers have here like my
administrators have here, I want to be a
principal so that I can lead in that way
and lead by example and just show people
how to help others i think that's
incredibly important and that is
implicit in the role of leadership. I got
to experience a lot of different
learning, different teaching styles
different teachers, which helped me kind
of mold and shape how I was going to be
a teacher when I got my own classroom.
So Maddie and I are both athletes here
at Samford, she plays volleyball and I
play basketball, and we both want to be
teachers and coaches one day and being
athletes we always strive for excellence
and that's just what we've been taught and
that, the School of Education has
definitely pushed us to strive for
excellence in the classroom as well.
Being division 1 athletes we have crazy
schedules, almost every day, and the
School of Education encourages us to be
the best that we can be on and off the
court so they're more than well willing
to work with us and with our schedules
and if we're traveling over the weekend
helping us complete our assignments on time.
My students in my classroom one day they
will have person who is highly
intelligent and understands the content
that they are supposed to be teaching,
but is also very knowledgeable and how
to best present that to them.
Whether I fall on my face or successful
or anywhere in between they got my back,
and they're helping me through that
whole process. I felt very well prepared.
You just get to talk to so many people
who can really tell you what it's like
to go through it and who have been there
and I can't put a price on the value
that that gives to a student in
secondary education.