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Three University of Georgia College of Education graduate students have received the Allman Master of Arts in Teaching Scholarship from the college’s department of educational theory and practice.

Katie Leathers, Sarah Ann Visser and Shelly Gleaton received $1,000 awards to be used during their student teaching semester in fall 2013. The Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) degree in the Early Childhood Education program is intended for individuals who hold a bachelor’s degree and wish to gain teaching certification while working on a master’s degree.

Leathers

Leathers, of Conyers, is part of the early childhood certification option (ECCO) in the MAT program and is going to school while also holding a full-time job as a paraprofessional in Rockdale County. She will begin her student teaching semester in the 3^rd grade at Bethlehem Elementary in Barrow County.

The ECCO is designed for candidates seeking initial certification to teach children in Pre-K to grade 5. Candidates in ECCO are recommended for T4 certification after they successfully complete student teaching and submit a certification portfolio that is approved by the ECCO faculty. To obtain T4 certification, candidates must pass the appropriate GACE tests and submit an application for certification to the Georgia Professional Standards Commission.

Visser

Gleaton

Visser, of Athens, has worked in social services, elementary schools and childcare centers in the area since 2003. She has also taught pottery classes to children and adults with disabilities for the past seven years at Good Dirt Ceramics Studio. Visser is also in the ECCO program. She plans to integrate art into the regular classroom in student teaching. She also plans to earn a certification in Art Education. Visser hopes to teach in the Athens area after completing her degree.

Gleaton, of Monroe, was an assistant Pre-K teacher at the Goddard School in Atlanta for the 2011-12 school year. Gleaton will work with five-year old students at the Scuola Materna Cimabue in Modena, Italy this summer and she hopes to teach younger grades in the Athens or Atlanta area after graduation.