Jordan High Teacher Is MEA Golden Apple Award Recipient

Suzanne Horne was headed towards a career in medicine. But when she hit her freshman year in college, she took a u-turn. Her heart was not in it. She wanted to teach children. “More on a daily basis I think I can change the world through touching the life of a child versus a grown-up,” says Horne.

She didn’t realize it at the time, but she laid the groundwork for a career in education as a child when she discovered her love for reading. She passed on that appreciation for reading to one of her students, David King. Before he met Mrs. Horne, he really didn’t care for books. “She makes it fun, she breaks it down she breaks the story down, what it’s about,” says David. He’s moving on to the 10th grade. Horne is hoping David and the rest of her students will remember her as more than their English teacher.
“I hope they will remember that I was someone who was not just up there teaching them English, teaching them Reading, teaching them Grammar, but teaching them about life. I don’t want them to go out of this classroom knowing the vocabulary from a certain story, I want them to go out being able to apply the skills they learned in here and apply it to anything in their life.“