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Every year, Baylor\u2019s School of Education<\/a> graduates roughly 100 eager, wide-eyed future teachers. One of those graduates is Stephanie Wright, BSED \u201916 — who was just named a Texas Student Teacher of the Year<\/a>.<\/p>\n Wright graduated summa cum laude<\/em>\u00a0last spring with the goal of working with students in special education, then completed her student-teaching experience at Midway ISD\u2019s Hewitt Elementary (just outside Waco). Her approach to teaching is simple, she says: be caring and compassionate.<\/p>\n \u201cMany of my students have so many obstacles to overcome, but I believe in them,\u201d she says. \u201cThey bring out the best in me, and I know that education is the most important factor in their lives.<\/p>\n \u201cI love the instructional times, but mostly I love all the crazy little things that happen in between. My students constantly reminded me that childhood is fleeting and very precious. I felt blessed to be part of theirs for that short time we were together.\u201d<\/p>\n The School of Education\u2019s heavy emphasis on experience in the classroom is what gave Wright\u00a0such a strong foundation when she began\u00a0student teaching. The state of Texas requires a minimum of 60 days of in-classroom experience for teacher verification — but Baylor goes well above that, requiring its graduates get at\u00a0least 100 days in real classrooms.<\/p>\n Not one to become complacent with her teaching methods, Wright\u00a0is now back at Baylor pursuing a master\u2019s degree in applied behavior analysis.<\/p>\n Sic \u2019em, Stephanie!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every year, Baylor\u2019s School of Education graduates roughly 100 eager, wide-eyed future teachers. One of those graduates is Stephanie Wright, BSED \u201916 — who was just named a Texas Student Teacher of the Year. Wright graduated summa cum laude\u00a0last spring with the goal of working with students in special education, then completed her student-teaching experience […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-alumni","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}