December 2014

For the second year at SJHS, the counseling center has been hosting a series of career presentations during Quest Time called Windows to the Workplace. All interested students are encouraged to attend and learn about careers that interest them. 

Mrs. Droz, the ninth grade counselor at SJHS, said Windows to the Workplace is a place where they “invite parents and community members to come and talk about their careers.  They talk about how to get into their career, how much school and training they had to do, what kinds of things they do each day, how much money they can make, and how many jobs are available in their career right now.”    

Ms. Gerhauser is one of the four P.E teachers here at SJHS. She taught PE at an elementary school for four years, but this is her first year teaching at Springville Jr. High.

P.E was one of her favorite subjects in school, but it took her a long time to decide to teach it. She changed her major four times before choosing Exercise Science.  She was a personal trainer, and then she decided to go back to school and get her teaching certificate.

Ms. Gerhauser went to Snow College for two years, graduated from BYU, then went back to UVU for her teaching certificate.

This year at SJHS new teachers have been added to the staff. One of these teachers is Mr. McCombs, a new seventh grade English teacher. This is Mr. McCombs’ first year teaching. “This is still my first year teaching, so in a way, I'm just a tiny fish in a huge pond called teaching. Sometimes it feels like I'm drowning in that pond, but at others, it's like floating on the top of the water with the sun on my eyelids,” said Mr. McCombs.

Even though this is his first year teaching Mr. McCombs, loves his job. He said that there are many students that make it fun. Even though there are ups and downs, he absolutely loves his job.