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So my name is Sarah Reeves Young,
and I got my masters in education
from Lesley in 2005.
The teachers there were all master teachers.
They were phenomenal, and they really helped me
to see how a lot of these topics in education translated
into a real classroom experience for students.
The collaborative model that Lesley offers
where we're not only learning from top educators in the field
in terms of methods and adolescent psychology
and all of those different elements,
but you also have the opportunity
to be in a school full time, working with students
as well as master teachers.
I like it!
As a science teacher, the hands-on element
is so important to me in terms of not just
what I expect from my students in terms of how
they learn best, but how I learn best as well.
And it was that type of hands-on learning
that gave me the opportunity to really expand,
make mistakes, but at the same time just grow
as a teacher and really set the stage for me
to be able to have my own classroom
and experience success in my first year
as opposed to what most people experience
as a first-year teacher.
I now work for the Utah State Office of Education.
I am their K through 12 science specialist,
which involves basically keeping an updated version
of the science core documents that are taught
in our K through 12 sequencing to help improve and push
the science education that we can offer our students
in the state.
As part of my job, I provide a lot
of professional development for teachers,
and I model so many of the experiences
after classroom experiences that I had here at Lesley.
No matter what type of class I was taking,
it really boiled down to the student experience
and the student learning.
We weren't about, you know, teaching mass models.
We were really about individualization.