{"id":69,"date":"2021-02-15T21:33:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T21:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/?p=69"},"modified":"2023-05-04T14:51:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T14:51:59","slug":"69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/69\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Spotlight: Reilly Mahan (MAEd)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reilly Mahan Joins us today to talk about her experience earning her Master of Arts in Education with a concentration in Literacy, and how her classes at Furman helped her become a better teacher.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Reilly Mahan: MAEd in Literacy Student Profile\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HC-Qw9KFbjQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Master of Arts in Education with a concentration in Literacy: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/education\/graduate-studies-in-education\/literacy\/\">VISIT THE WEBSITE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us a little about yourself<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My name is Reilly Mahan. I teach out in Spartanburg at Jesse Bobo elementary school. I actually completed both my undergrad and my graduate degree at Furman University. It has definitely been a huge part of how I have shaped my classroom and what I&#8217;m up to today and I can&#8217;t wait to talk about it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How has Furman impacted the way you approach teaching?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before the graduate program, literacy was just such a beast. It just seems so hard to fully grasp or to fully tackle in the classroom in a way that was benefiting every single kid. I felt like I was doing the same old same old. For a first year teacher, I tried to stick to the basics or the programs that you&#8217;re given to at the school, but it just felt so dry, like it wasn&#8217;t tailored to my kids and their specific needs.<\/p>\n<p>Going through the graduate program every single day, I was learning something very applicable that I could learn that night, and take with me into the classroom the next day. It just made a world of a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reilly Mahan Joins us today to talk about her experience earning her Master of Arts in Education with a concentration in Literacy, and how her classes at Furman helped her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":95,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,141],"tags":[38,36],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-education-testimonials","tag-education","tag-testimonial"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}