As an undergraduate, Natalie Beck ’24, MAT ’25, focused her research on developmental psychology, specifically the importance of play in children, which easily transferred to her master’s program studies.

Now, she works with children daily as a student teacher in a second-grade classroom at Woodland Academy, an elementary school in Worcester.

The most important thing she’s learned, she says, is that teachers need to play and speak the language of the people with whom they work.

🔗 See link in bio to read her story.