New Teacher, New Year ,New Opportunities! By: Ariel Duran

Ms. Thompson is one of the many new teachers here at Caprock
High School. She teaches Algebra II and may begin to teach Algebra I.
Thompson grew up here in Amarillo; she attended Caprock and was
a graduate of the class of 1999. Out of high school, she began attending
Amarillo College. She stayed there for two years then transferred to WT
for her remaining two years of college. Due to her finishing
college, she now has her Bachelors' Degree in teaching and is a certified
teacher in the state of Texas. She got into college through scholarships
which she received from being a member in AKADEMIA and other academic
clubs. Before teaching at Caprock, she was a student teacher at Tascosa
High for one semester; she worked with freshman. Her plans for the
future are to go back to college and get her masters degree in teaching.
I really enjoy being a student in her class because she makes
things easy to understand and she will work with each individual if they
need extra help. It is obvious that she is new at teaching because she
is still catching on to things, but for the most part I think she is an
excellent teacher, and I truly do believe she will go very far in her
career. I can honestly say Caprock and I are blessed to have Ms.
Thompson teaching for us here at Caprock High.