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Amboy high-schooler Dana Merriman says she learned an important lesson as a studentteacher: “It’s taught me that I can make a difference in someone else’s life.”
OF HER OWN By Cody Cutter | Sauk Valley Media
When an Amboy student took on the task of teaching an ag class, she discovered that her students weren’t the only ones learning to grow
he bell rang to dismiss class in the middle of the day, and Dana Merriman joined her fellow students as they spilled into the halls at Amboy’s newly enlarged junior/senior high school building. While the rest of the students went about their hallway hustle and bustle, dodging and darting on the way to their next destination, Dana was on her way to begin her temporary promotion in the junior high wing. That’s when she became Miss Merriman to the eighth-graders in her Discovery Ag class. During the fall semester, Dana jumped at the chance that
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Amboy High senior agriculture students have every year: the opportunity to put their ag know-how to work and teach it to future high school students for half of the year. Opportunities like this don’t come along all that often, and Dana was eager to take a turn as a student-teacher. “It’s taught me that I can make a difference in someone else’s life,” Merriman said. “That’s what my whole idea of this was, I really wanted to connect with students and let them know that there are so many opportunities with agriculture.”
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