Mrs. Andrea Shannon
Middle School
6th Grade Math/7th Grade Math/
7th Grade Advanced Math/8th Grade Math
Bachelor of Science Biology Major, Chemistry Minor
Bachelor of Science in Education
Certified in Secondary Science
Delta State University
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Every person who walks into the doors of a learning institution has been born for a purpose. As a teacher I have a purpose and as a student each child has a purpose. My philosophy of teaching is, "Formal education should play a key role in assisting each student in realizing his purpose, while being equipped to meet that purpose."
As a math teacher I try to teach mathematical skills appropriate for each student's grade level, trying to reach the slower student, as well as challenging the more advanced student.
The education of the child, though, is not just about reading, writing, and arithmetic. It is also about learning life skills: orderliness, cooperation, accountability, perseverance, responsibility, integrity, honesty and self-control. Learning these life skills require the student being taught by word and example.
We know the brain plays a great role in achieving these skills but the heart does as well. As student may know the correct thing to do, but it is the heart of the students which will decide wheter or not he will do it. This simply means that in order for these life skills to become part of the student, as a teacher i should be reaching his heart as well as his brain as I teach and correct him. The end result is character.
The poster outside my door says, "Character. It's how you live life when nobody's looking." that is the hope I have for each student who comes through my class, that when each student is alone, he/she will be able to say I am a young man/young woman of good character.
Lee Academy, a college preparatory school, provides an educational environment of excellence with high academic and behavioral standards. The vision of Lee Academy is to build the bridge to each student's future by nurturing the growth of the student with regard to individual needs and abilities in an atmosphere of warmth and caring and to develop strong character in each student by teaching principles of self-discipline, respect for authority, patriotism, a love of learning and reverence for God. Lee Academy believes that the overall purpose of education is to develop students physically, intellectually, morally, spiritually, socially, and emotionally. We believe it is the responsibility of the school to guide, discipline, counsel, and instruct students so that their capabilities and interests develop to an optimum degree in order for them to take their places in society as responsible adult citizens. The student also shares in the responsibility for his education by his participation, cooperation, involvement, and hard work. The Mississippi Association of Independent Schools and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools accredit Lee Academy. Lee offers K-3 through the 12th grade and welcomes students currently from Coahoma, Tunica, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Sunflower, and Bolívar counties. We welcome you to Lee Academy and invite you to become a member of our family. Ricky Weiss Headmaster
Website Re-Designed As you can see we have completely redesigned our website. Our new site allows us complete control to add new content at anytime and from any computer. Some of the new features include photo galleries for student activites and events, as well as, photo galleries for all sports. We invite parents and students to send us your digital images of Lee Academy events. We do require that all images have a descriptive name, i.e "JH boys track 21" and that you resize your images to a maximum 640 pixels wide. Images should be emailed to schnadm56@att.net . Another feature is two online calendars, one for academic events and the other for sports. These calendars allow you to subscribe to one or both and choose to be notified of events by email, text message or both. Email notification will be sent 24 hours prior and text messages 1 hour prior to the event. The map to the school has also been updated and allows visitors to easily map their drive to Lee Academy. We encourage our alumni to sign up for our special email message list by going to the ALUMNI section, click on REGISTER FOR EMAIL MESSAGES and fill-out the form. You will not be flooded with email but periodically we will send mesages about important events or activities at Lee Academy. Another feature that is available is LIVE Internet broadcasts. We now have the ability to broadcast over the Internet virtually every school event, both at home and away. All that is required is an inexpensive camera, a laptop, an Internet connection and a volunteer. Events that are broadcast LIVE are immediately archived on the server and available for playback at anytime from any computer and in some cases your Smartphone. This can be a great fundraiser with real value to the sponsors. |
