| Lewiston
teacher retiring to the after-school bunch
By
Davis Archibald
April 18, 2008 | LEWISTON -- After
21 years of teaching at Lewiston Elementary, Jeanne
Nielsen will retire from teaching after this school
year.
Nielsen, currently a third grade
teacher, will become the after-school coordinator for
the Cache County School District. She has been teaching
at the elementary school and working for the district
this year in preparation for the transition.
According to Nielsen, who grew up
in Georgia, she decided to teach because her sister
was a teacher. She actually planned on going to law
school but once she started teaching she fell in love
and has been teaching a total of 24 years in Cache Valley.
Her first four years she taught at
Hilltop Elementary, a private school in Logan, before
moving on to Lewiston Elementary.
"There is not a better place
than Lewiston," Nielsen said.
Nielsen gets up at 6 a.m. every day
and usually arrives at 8 a.m. at the school. This gives
her time to talk to her colleagues about how to teach
more effectively, Nielsen said.
Each day she starts class off with
a discussion and then teaches her third-grade class
reading, writing, social studies, math, and language
arts. There are also specialists in the school that
work with the students on music, physical education
and media and computers.
According to Nielsen, she enjoys
teaching Math most because of how the students react
when they understand a concept.
"You can watch them and the
light turns on," Nielsen said.
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