Megan Tompkins: My Role Model In High School

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“Good Luck, Have Fun and Don’t Cheat.” Every day during the school year and most days during the summer I see Megan Tompkins. She is my science teacher and has been since I started 7th grade life science. Mrs. Tompkins has been a role model for me since that time. I started looking up to her because being a girl with a love for science is not the easiest, especially just staring my high school career. Even being my role model, I do not know that much about her except for the basics from being her student. First is what I already knew about her. Every year Mrs. Tompkins has her students take a quiz for bonus on what they know about her. Each year that I have done them I’ve done pretty well on them gaining bonus points, but also gaining some …show more content…

She asked hesitantly “Can it be someone who was passed?” It was her mother who had just passed away at the beginning of the school year from a brain disorder. After saying that she started laughing and I could tell it was her way of keeping it together for the students in the room. Also for the other teacher who came in “Nobody. You guys never come in here.” Her personal and professional goals are mainly one in the same, producing successful students. She puts a lot of care and attention into her students and wants them to succeed. When asked about her start in teaching she surprised me and said “special education”. Everyone else in the room also seemed surprise when she said that. Within that she had to get a larger topic and chose biology because of her high school science teacher. She realized later on in college that she did not want to work with elementary. She than chose to continue on with biology and teaching. One of her teacher-like qualities that she sees in herself was caring, but also stubbornness which her youngest daughter Lexi said “Daddy would agree with”. Some might think that would be a bad thing, but she doesn’t think like that. It’s something she says she got from her mother which is a proud moment for her. Along with school teaching, she also teaches at one of the local churches in

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