Ari Collins
eSomethin staff
Students and staff at Perrysburg High School are settling into the year after a month of being back in session. As the year advances, PHS continues to welcome new staff members to its building.
Megan Trejo is a new math teacher at PHS. She teaches algebra and geometry and is striving to boost her students’ confidence in math this year.
She went to college in Bowling Green and then taught at Freedom High School in Orlando, FL for six years before moving back to Ohio.
Trejo recalls that she had always said that she “wanted to teach because [her] mom was a teacher. That was the easy answer. She was an English teacher, and I thought I wanted to be an English teacher.”
However, after some thought and discussions with her mom, Trejo realized that English was not the right route.
“I got into a scholarship program at [Bowling Green] for math education,” Trejo said. “I just felt like that was divine intervention telling me, if not English try math. And I fell in love with teaching math.”
Trejo reports that although she wasn’t always a straight-A student in math, that has helped her understand the students better.
“There’s a lot of math anxiety,” she says. Trejo loves to break down the anxiety in math by doing group work and exercises that allow students to truly think about and understand the mathematical process.
“The best thing about teaching, I think, is witnessing a student’s ‘ah-ha’ moment, in math especially. Getting to see those moments and build that confidence is pretty special.”
“I really do want to be a part of students’ journeys and help them be more comfortable with math.”
Megan trejo
Future in Perrysburg
She moved to the area to be closer to family and was excited when a position was available in Perrysburg. She says that she knew Perrysburg had an “awesome community, awesome students and, you know, awesome, supportive staff. When they said they’d have me, I felt very fortunate.”
Trejo reports that the transition has been positive, and that “everybody that I have met since day one has just been so kind and helpful and checking in. Not once has anyone seemed like they’re bothered by questions that I ask, and I’ve just really appreciated the Midwestern hospitality, I guess.”
She looks forward to the future in Perrysburg and wants the community to know not only that she wants all students to succeed, but also that she wants “to be an active part of that, and [she’s] going to do everything [she] can to help them feel successful, in math especially.”
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