This year at CCCHS, we have a plethora of new teachers, all of which the high school is excited to get to know. Specifically, one of our new teachers in the business wing is Mrs. Amanda Wallace. Wallace has been working full time at the Raider Academy for some time now.
While she still has two classes with the freshman, teaching computer science in the mornings, she now spends a majority of her day at the high school. She’ll be teaching two periods of computer science, one period of career exploration, and she is a work-based learning coordinator for seventh period.
She enjoys teaching because she, “Likes trying to make a difference…I want to help kids who are in trouble or struggling, not just academically, but personally and with their goals. I like seeing them grow up.”
Wallace is currently attaining her Masters degree from Carson Newman. She is set to graduate in May. Prior to this, she spent two years at Motlow and then completed her Bachelors at Middle Tennessee State University. Wallace says “Technically I was not going to be a teacher, I was going to do business administration for a pharmaceutical sales rep or something and decided sales was not for me. So I continued and changed over to business education”
Wallace says that being at CCCHS is different from the academy because “Being at the academy you only see them for one year, but here you get to see them grow up,” and, “the maturity level, and classes over there are longer. We have 55 minutes, whereas we have 400 something here, and you don’t realize how much just an extra few minutes can make a difference. So I feel more rushed here but the kids are better so it balances it out.”
So far this school year Wallace has loved seeing students grow up. She says “A lot of you, I knew you as ninth graders, and now I haven’t seen you in three years and you’re seniors. Just watching y’all change and become your own person.”
Wallace is especially excited about “Computer science, work based learning…and just doing something new along with graduating with my Masters in May.”
CCCHS is excited to have Wallace over here watching her students grow and making memories in the business hall. The school can’t wait to see her success in finishing out her Masters degree at Carson Newman!
