Mrs. Amanda Sorby means business
By Tim Schwietz
Published March 18, 2019
With a new school year sometimes comes a new teacher. With a new teacher comes new ideas and methods. Mrs. Amanda Sorby is a new teacher this year at Aitkin High school. She has had over half a school year to become acquainted with students and staff. Before coming to AHS, Mrs. Sorby had been on a trip to Greece and says that if she could travel anywhere she would want to travel to Rome, Italy for another adventure.
This is the first time that Mrs. Sorby has been hired to teach in Aitkin, but she has accumulated eight years of teaching experience. In this time she has taught everything from seventh to 12th grade. She enjoys teaching seventh grade but says that teaching 11th- and 12th-graders can be a well-needed breath of fresh air. Mrs. Sorby has mainly stayed in social studies, but did wander into fifth grade for a year and is currently teaching business. Along with the eight years of experience, Mrs. Sorby went to UMD and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Social Studies. After this, she decided it still wasn’t enough and enrolled at Saint Scholastica to obtain a masters degree in the science of teaching, a teaching license, and is going back to get her business degree.
A question commonly asked by students for a newly employed teacher is “Why Aitkin?” In Mrs. Sorby’s case, the answer was simple. “Hometown, so nice and close to home,” she said. “Nice to know people and the community and as much as when you're in school you want to leave really bad, when you grow up you realize it’s a pretty good place to live and raise a family.”
Aitkin is where she wanted to settle down with her husband and two dogs, along with raising the two, soon to be three, children. With these things in mind, Aitkin didn’t have too much competition for this teacher. In about 10 years Mrs. Sorby hopes to still be teaching, may it be in either social studies or in business. She also wishes to travel more with her children. Some of the immediate changes that Mrs. Sorby wants to do with her classes are changing some of the classes required to graduate with a green cord through Bridges Academy. She is also looking into the possibility of adding another cluster of classes that will qualify a student for a different green cord.
As a new teacher starting at a new school, it can be intimidating. Mrs. Sorby has so far had nothing but fun and enjoys the classes that she teaches.
Published March 18, 2019
With a new school year sometimes comes a new teacher. With a new teacher comes new ideas and methods. Mrs. Amanda Sorby is a new teacher this year at Aitkin High school. She has had over half a school year to become acquainted with students and staff. Before coming to AHS, Mrs. Sorby had been on a trip to Greece and says that if she could travel anywhere she would want to travel to Rome, Italy for another adventure.
This is the first time that Mrs. Sorby has been hired to teach in Aitkin, but she has accumulated eight years of teaching experience. In this time she has taught everything from seventh to 12th grade. She enjoys teaching seventh grade but says that teaching 11th- and 12th-graders can be a well-needed breath of fresh air. Mrs. Sorby has mainly stayed in social studies, but did wander into fifth grade for a year and is currently teaching business. Along with the eight years of experience, Mrs. Sorby went to UMD and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Social Studies. After this, she decided it still wasn’t enough and enrolled at Saint Scholastica to obtain a masters degree in the science of teaching, a teaching license, and is going back to get her business degree.
A question commonly asked by students for a newly employed teacher is “Why Aitkin?” In Mrs. Sorby’s case, the answer was simple. “Hometown, so nice and close to home,” she said. “Nice to know people and the community and as much as when you're in school you want to leave really bad, when you grow up you realize it’s a pretty good place to live and raise a family.”
Aitkin is where she wanted to settle down with her husband and two dogs, along with raising the two, soon to be three, children. With these things in mind, Aitkin didn’t have too much competition for this teacher. In about 10 years Mrs. Sorby hopes to still be teaching, may it be in either social studies or in business. She also wishes to travel more with her children. Some of the immediate changes that Mrs. Sorby wants to do with her classes are changing some of the classes required to graduate with a green cord through Bridges Academy. She is also looking into the possibility of adding another cluster of classes that will qualify a student for a different green cord.
As a new teacher starting at a new school, it can be intimidating. Mrs. Sorby has so far had nothing but fun and enjoys the classes that she teaches.