Alumni Spotlight: Megan Grover

Megan Grover (’06, Elementary Education) is putting her SUU education and experiences to great use as a 5th/6th grade elementary school teacher at Grantsville Elementary School, in Utah’s Tooele School District.

Her duties are many and varied, she says, and she is primarily responsible for teaching the state core curriculum, making sure her students enjoy learning, collaborating with team members and maintaining good rapport with parents and people in the community.

From her earliest years, Megan always wanted to be a teacher, as she watched her greatly admired father set the example as he touched the lives of his students. 

“I want to make a difference in the lives of other people,” she says. “Being a teacher is one of the most rewarding jobs around, in my opinion.”

Megan says that while at SUU she learned how to be confident in the person she is, and to go after her dreams. SUU gave her a lot of opportunities to be herself, follow her dreams, and accomplish what she wanted to get accomplished.

One thing she learned, she says, is that “It is OK to fail as long as I have tried my best.”

The education that she received at SUU thoroughly prepared her to be a teacher because while she was in the education program at SUU, she was given a lot of hands-on, in-classroom experiences. During her practicum, also known as, “the block,” she was able to work in the classroom and really experience what it was like to be a teacher, rather than just learn about it in a textbook.

What Megan is most proud of professionally is her ability to interact and work well with others, and touch the lives of those she teaches.

“I feel like in my 11 years of teaching that I have really made a difference in the lives of other people,” she says.

 
Originally posted on suu.edu in October 2016