New high school teacher fits new attitude
Published: September 23, 2005
Young enough to be mistaken for a student herself, Roy said she has been taking the tried and true approach of discipline before friendship, and that so far her students have responded well. She takes her cues from her substitute teaching days in Chelsea, where she observed first-hand that her students were happier and got more work done when she was “firm and fair.”
Roy believes that “if you raise expectations, [students] are going to meet them,” and said she teaches accordingly.
“Every kid is taught so they can pass MCAS, unit tests and go to college,” she said.
A May 2005 graduate herself, Roy is particularly enthusiastic about helping the students in her classroom to realize their college ambitions.
“I talk about college a lot in class, I tell them how I wasn’t rich, but I managed to pay for it and they are like, ‘How?,’” Roy said. “They want to know, they want to be there. I push the you-can-do-it-attitude.”
Roy said she is most looking forward to getting into the lab with her students, but is concerned about the lack of funds. She is also anticipating the November-December new teacher “slump” that her college professors prophetically warned her about. But Roy is otherwise overwhelmingly optimistic and meticulously prepared for her first year in a public high school, and she is sure she chose the right place to flex her microscopes and grow as a teacher.
“There are lots of changes going on in Malden,” she said, “and I think it’s going in the right direction.”
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