PHS FTA Students Job Shadow Favorite Teachers

PHS FTA Students Job Shadow Favorite Teachers

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Plymouth High School students who are part of the Future Teachers America (FTA) got to spend Thursday, April 12 job shadowing one of their favorite Plymouth Community School Corporation teachers.

Close to four dozen students spent the day at Lincoln Jr. High School, Riverside Intermediate School, Menominee Elementary School, Webster Elementary School, Washington Discovery Academy, or Jefferson Elementary School.

Each student selected one of his/her favorite teachers and spent entire day shadowing them in their classroom. FTA students got to assist their selective teachers by participating in simple teaching activities. The field trip allows students to get a glimpse of what it means to be a teacher. PHS FTA club sponsor and PHS Science teacher Suzette Read who organized the annual field trip said this field trip helps shape the future and Plymouth High School Principal Jim Condon agrees. “It offers our high school students a unique opportunity to put on a teaching hat to see if the fit is right. The day also builds mentoring relationships that could actually become strong enough to inspire some of our next generation of great teachers,” said Condon.

Read said it is a special privilege to be chosen as a favorite teacher by a former student and she has never had a host teachers who has not enjoyed having a PHS FTA member spend the day in their classroom.

All of the PHS FTA students and their paired up teachers are listed below.

Jefferson Elementary

  • Halle Reichard (Ms. Angela Hissong)
  • Lindsay Janus (Ms. Betsy Bowen)
  • Ella Hissong (Ms. Candace Hunter)

Menominee Elementary

  • Taylor Drake (Ms. Julie Good)
  • Kenna McDonald (Ms. Nichole Horner)
  • Carly Poczik (Ms. Christa Snyder)
  • Presley Baca (Ms. Mary Dolph)
  • Andie Kizer (Ms. Helen Corey)
  • Kenzie Snyder (Ms. Vicki Hite)
  • Konnor Ray (Mr. Michael Kershner)

Washington Discovery Academy

  • Bailey Eveland (Mr. D Eveland)
  • Jocelyn Sieh (Ms. Kim Riddle)
  • Mary Beatty (Ms. S. Johnson)
  • Makayla Wilson (Ms. K Hoover)
  • Fatima Ramirez (Ms. Amanda Dreibelbis)

Webster Elementary

  • Mackenzie Whisman (Ms. Anna Cover)
  • Meghan Ankney (Mr. Thomas Kinnaird)
  • Jessie Cooper (Ms. Kari Osborn)
  • Mackenzie DeJarnett (Ms. Tana Houin)
  • Sydni Weir (Ms. Crystal Uyhelji)

Riverside Intermediate

  • Luke Walters (Mr. Eric Knebel)
  • Audrie Plothow (Ms. Andria Shook)
  • Elle Lee (Mr. Wade Mattis)
  • Heidi Hardel (Mr. Zane Cooper)
  • Harlie Mast (Ms. Crystal Dennie)
  • Lindsay Weldon (Ms. Nikki Rumpler)
  • Miranda Beatty (Ms. Mindy Mattis)

Lincoln Junior High

  • Maggie Nate (Mr. Riley Hereen)
  • Kiley Weiss (Ms. Darlene Derifield)
  • Darion Saxton (Ms. Susan LaFree)
  • Bo Meadors (Mr. Matthew Harter)
  • Kendall Rhodes (Mr. Riley Hereen)
  • Xandra Kurtz (Ms. Suzie Garrity)
  • Sarah Collier (Ms. Lauren Brown)
  • Claudia Marohn (Ms. Lori Day) - Librarian
  • Kenzie Quissell (Mr. Riley Hereen)
  • Gunnar Rains (Ms. Cheryl Caine)
  • Kyla Heckaman (Mr. Brody Shively)
  • Erin Renneker (Ms. Sarah McKenzie)
  • Mary Kate Flynn (Ms. Jennifer Grindle)
  • Ariana Baca-Guzman (Ms. Ellen Gaines)
  • Hannah Gibson (Ms. Amie Guy)
  • Mariana Solis (Mr. Ryan Alrich)
  • Chloe Garner (Ms. Jodi Kallenberg)
  • Nancy Garcia-Pena (Ms. Paula Neidlinger)

    Mrs. Sarah McKenzie and Erin Renneker      Susan LaFree and Darion Saxton
                     Sarah McKenzie and Erin Renneker                                                    Susan LaFree and Darion Saxton