AASU Pathways to Teaching Graduate
Receives Master's Degree at Oxford

Savannah, GA–Mrs. Jannis M. Glover, a 1997 graduate of Armstrong Atlantic State University’s DeWitt Wallace-Readers Digest Pathways to Teaching Program, has received a Master of Arts degree at Lincoln College, Oxford England. Mrs. Glover received grants from the Bread Loaf School of English Summer Graduate Program of Middlebury College in Vermont to complete a five-year program of study in Oxford.

Mrs. Glover is currently a sixth grade Language Arts and Reader teacher at Shuman Middle School. She began her career with the Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools as a paraprofessional and later became a DeWitt Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund Pathways to Teaching Scholar to complete the degree requirements to become a classroom teacher. While attending Armstrong, Mrs. Glover maintained the highest grade point average of all Pathways’ Scholars, graduating Magna cum Laude.

In her first year of teaching she was nominated by Shuman and received the Savannah-Chatham County Sallie Mae First Class Teacher of the Year Award for 1998. Mrs. Glover presented at the 11^th European Conference on Reading and was published in the book, Literacy – Challenges for the New Millennium Selected Papers of the 11^th European Conference on Reading, Ingolv Austad and Eldbjørg Tøsdal Lyssand, editors. Mrs. Glover is married to Mr. Donald K. Glover and has three sons, John, Michael and William.

Lincoln College, located in the city center of Oxford, has been a part of the Bread Loaf Summer Graduate program for twenty-five years. During Mrs. Glover’s matriculation in the program, she had the opportunity to study with noted professors and to participate in the summer programs which afforded her opportunities to experience lectures from world famous authors, actors, and poets. She also attend professional productions of classic plays such as Hamlet, Othello, The Merchant of Venice, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford on Avon, England.

 

 

October 30, 2002