SJHS News

Ria Swapp
SJHS Staff Writer

When trying to pick out a good teacher, you may ask yourself: what has this person done to help me learn? Well, with Mrs. Mary Rice of Springville Junior High, you should be able to answer that question easily.

Mrs. Rice and her nearly six years of teaching at SJHS has given many students an education to last them a lifetime. She doesn’t just teach English or Language Arts, but she also teaches students to be okay with themselves on the inside as well as out.

She thinks “students deserve to be told that they are doing a good job,” and that they should always try to do things independently. When teaching her classes of seventh, eighth, and ninth graders (some of which she is teaching how to speak English), she believes in letting them do their own thing, and only intervenes if they need it.

She is very systematic in her work. She watches how students “self-govern” when they are doing their work and tries to work with it and work it into her other classes with suggestions and guidelines.

From what multiple of her students and coworkers, she loves to teach and that she is very good at it. So if you ever consider picking out a great English and Language Arts teacher, always look to Mrs. Mary Rice and her years of teaching experience, and you can’t go wrong.