Ms. Shoemaker is in the upstairs, main building. She teachers her freshmen students algebra everyday. She teaches year-long freshmen algebra classes, such as Algebra 1A and Algebra 1B, to her students.
Ms. Shoemaker says she has always loved math since she was a child and wanted to be a teacher so that she could make a difference in her students lives. She says teaching freshmen is difficult because, “They are a different breed”. But they also keep life more exciting and, typically, more challenging. She says that math is not an easy subject, but she also says nothing is really an easy subject to teach. She says her biggest challenge is that the students honestly don’t try or they will just shut down before even putting in effort because they do not think they are good enough.
She offers tutoring in the morning on tuesdays and thursdays, and in the afternoon on mondays and thursdays.
Hannah Cate, a freshmen, says “Ms. Shoemakers classes are chill and it’s probably my favorite class.” She enjoys going to Ms. Shoemakers to hang out with her friends. “I don’t really like math but Ms. Shoemaker is a good teacher so I really like that class.”
If given the opportunity to have any other job, Ms Shoemaker would still choose teaching because, as she says, she truly enjoys teaching and shaping young minds!
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