Hannah Sharp is one of the seniors graduating in class 2025. She has always wanted to be a teacher. Morgan has helped her grow her interest in becoming a teacher and working with kids.
Ever since Hannah Sharp was in first grade, she wanted to become a teacher. “I’ve always wanted to follow in my mom’s footsteps,” Hannah said. Her mom has been a teacher for 21 years, working with first-grade and kindergarten students in Madison. “Sometimes I even go into her class and help,” she said.
Hannah is involved in a lot of stuff in Morgan, including REACT since 9th grade, one of the Morgan mentors for Eliot React, helping facilitate the kids, making sure they’re on their best behavior. She is also a part of the Jewish Youth Group. Lastly, she is the vice president of FCCLA (Family Consumer Science Club), where she has learned lots about cooking and working with kids.
For example, she has run tables for the kids at the art expo. Her favorite memory from Morgan was last year, when she attended a leadership conference with REACT, “I got to meet new people and learn about different things about mental health,” stated Hannah.
Out of Morgan, she helps at the Temple Beth Tikvah in Madison every Sunday with the kindergarten class. She likes working with kids, but she finds challenges, “I feel like the listening is definitely a big thing, especially I feel like they see me as a teenager, not as an actual teacher, so they have a little more of a problem listening to me than an adult,” said Hannah.
Contributing to FCCLA, Hannah competed in a star event at the library on March 26th, where she set up activities that were developmentally appropriate and social-emotional based for kids ages 3-5. These activities helped kids understand their emotions, such as emotion worksheets, making faces out of playdough, making feelings masks out of paper plates and popsicle sticks, and more.
Hannah has mixed feelings about graduating, “I’m excited for after high school, but also a little scared because it’s going to be different than my normal life right now.” After high school, she will be attending the University of Delaware and majoring in elementary education. After, she will become an elementary school teacher, maybe somewhere in Delaware. She will teach either kindergarten or first grade. She feels those grades are important, “I feel like it’s the basis for their whole education,” she said. Hannah will miss her friends at Morgan and the closeness she felt there.
