Tyrone graduate Rachel Miller has been awarded the prestigious Evan Pugh Scholar Award from Pennsylvania State University.
\nThis award honors those juniors and seniors who are in the upper .5 percent of their classes and have completed at least 48 graded credits from Penn State.
\nMiller is an elementary education major and is completing her student teaching with a third grade class at Benner Elementary School in Bellefonte. She will graduate in May.
\n\u201cIn the fall, I went Tuesdays and Thursdays, so I could be with the same class all year,\u201d said Miller of her student teaching.
\nThe way that Miller\u2019s college classes were set up is so that in the fall semester she visited the class of Mrs. Judy Catherman, her host teacher at Bellefonte Elementary, on Tuesdays and Thursdays to become familiar with the 18 students and the surroundings of the building and the classroom. In the spring semester, which Miller is currently enrolled in, she goes to the elementary school everyday to student teach.
\n\u201cRight now I\u2019ve been mostly teaching all day. I have language arts, math and social studies,\u201d said Miller. \u201cThat\u2019s what I\u2019ve been teaching right now. After spring break, I start my unit in science.\u201d
\nThe challenging part of the elementary education major is that Miller must create all of her own lesson plans and create them for every school subject. For example, the science unit that she is scheduled to teach after spring break is required to be 15 lessons long and last for at least two weeks.
\nMiller said at the beginning of her student teaching she was a little nervous to go up in front of the class, but now she feels like a pro.
\n\u201cAt the beginning I would sit and read over my lessons forever, but now I just need a little post-it note or something,\u201d she said. \u201cI can just go up and do them because I\u2019m familiar with it.\u201d
\nThe spring semester ends in May, and that is when Miller will be able to graduate. She is already thinking about where she would like to work, and there is a job fair at Penn State in which she wants to attend to show her portfolio to prospective employers and get some interviewing skills.
\n\u201cI hope to stay around this area,\u201d Miller said of her hopes of finding a teaching job.
\nThe Evan Pugh Scholar Award is one of a number of awards that Miller has been honored with since she has attended Penn State. She has received this award both as a junior and as a senior. There is a ceremony to honor Miller and other recipients of this award on April 27 at the Penn Stater.
\n\u201cThey give it for juniors and seniors. I think it\u2019s an honor because I try so hard,\u201d said Miller of receiving the award. \u201cI mean I did well in high school, but I never had 4.0s in high school. I think in college I care more about it because this is what I want to do.\u201d
\nOther clubs and honor societies that Miller is a member of include: Pi Lambda Theta, the National Education Association, the Pennsylvania State Education Association and the Pi Kappa Phi Honor Society.
\nShe was on the Dean\u2019s List for seven semesters. Other scholarships that she has been awarded include the Elsie and Gilbert Sealson Scholarship for $1,100 and the Virginia L. Gates endowed scholarship for $500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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