Clover M. Stephenson

Clover Stephenson is currently teaching first grade at Osan Elementary School. She began her career in education as a speech therapist in 1976, but since 1988 has focused her efforts on classroom teaching in the primary grades. Her classroom provides a "friendly, caring, and trusting environment where children feel comfortable to take risks, look at mistakes as a learning process, and to celebrate successes." She feels that the most rewarding aspect of teaching is observing the changes that occur in her students from the first day of school to the last. Clover states, "They enter the classroom dependent on the teacher and leave feeling and behaving in a very independent way."