Educator of the Week: Brown
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EAST JACKSON, Tenn. — With school now well underway across West Tennessee, we’ll, one again, turn our attention every Friday to an outstanding educator.
“I always say to people, teaching is never about me but it’s about the students,” said Carolyn Brown. She teaches Economics at Jackson Central-Merry High School. She’s been an educator for ten years. “It’s a profession with a purpose. You have to love what you do. You have to have a concern for what you do and as a teach you have to learn continually.”
Brown started her career in a different profession but discovered she’s always been a teacher at heart. “My first profession was a business owner and I found myself interacting with clients and it was about teaching and learning,” she said. She said she admired many of her teachers as a student and has always loved the idea of teaching. “I always liked to teach. Playing the little games a child, ‘you be the teacher,’ and I always wanted to be the teacher.” Brown said she tried to make her classroom an environment that allows her students to feel they can achieve their highest potential. “My goal as a teacher is to get the information and the subject content, whatever i’m teaching, is to get it across to them in terms so that they can understand it.” She says teaching is not always easy but she will never give up on her students. “Even at time when there is a challenge you have to wake up every day and say ‘I’m here to meet the challenge.'”
