Madison Stevens began taking classes at McDowell Tech through the Career and College Promise Program before completing her Associate of Science degree and transferring to East Carolina University, where she is studying foreign languages and literature with a concentration in Hispanic Studies Education. She has been a substitute teacher at Glenwood Elementary since the beginning of the school year and sometimes assists her mother, Carol Causby, in the part-day preschool at Glenwood. Causby is a part-time teacher assistant in the program.
With the recent introduction of two new associate degree programs in teacher preparation, McDowell Technical Community College has streamlined the process by which local college students can prepare to become public and private school teachers at the kindergarten through 12th-grade level (K-12) in McDowell County.
Madison Stevens began taking classes at McDowell Tech through the Career and College Promise Program before completing her Associate of Science degree and transferring to East Carolina University, where she is studying foreign languages and literature with a concentration in Hispanic Studies Education. She has been a substitute teacher at Glenwood Elementary since the beginning of the school year and sometimes assists her mother, Carol Causby, in the part-day preschool at Glenwood. Causby is a part-time teacher assistant in the program.