FCMS Express
September 30, 2024
This week's staff spotlight focuses on the 7th-grade math teacher, Mrs. Ferman.
Mrs. Ferman attended Franklin College. She played soccer and softball for 4 years in college. She majored in elementary education and minored in middle school math. Mrs. Ferman has taught for 24 years; she taught 5th and 6th grade special education for 17 years at Laurel Elementary School. She has also taught 6, 7, 8th grade math. She has been teaching 7th-grade math for the last 7 years at FCMS.
She has lived in Franklin County her entire life. When she was young, she went to Mt. Carmel School and then on to Franklin County High School. She and her husband have raised two beautiful daughters, Michaela and McKenzie, in Metamora.
Did you know that Mrs. Ferman was a lifeguard at Lake Santee before she became a teacher? She also mowed grass for DNR at the Mounds. Mrs. Ferman is not a coffee drinker. Mrs Ferman’s favorite things about teaching are building relationships with students and seeing the growth of students. She loves the ‘ah-ha’ moments when hard concepts finally click. She says it makes everything she does worthwhile.
From personal experience, she is a teacher that helps and explains things in ways all students can understand. Students feel like they can come to her without fear of embarrassment.
Mrs. Ferman is truly a great teacher and FCMS is lucky to have her.
---Lily Zloba, Journalism
Elizabeth Simmermeyer, from the Purdue Extension and 4-H Youth Development for Franklin County has been with us on Mondays for the past several weeks. Her lessons have included information on production labels and packaging on the foods we purchased. We have discussed how food is grown and raised. We have also created labels and simulated purchasing products and making decisions on what would be important to us as a consumer. We greatly appreciate her time with us.
