Sariah Morris - SJHS Staff Writer | Posted: Wednesday, April 8, 2009 11:00 pm
Mr. Steven Robbins, an English teacher at Springville Junior High, has been teaching for a total of 32 1/2 years.
Twenty-four of these years have been spent here at Springville Junior High, five at Spanish Fork Junior High, three at Monticello High, and then half a year at South Davis JHS in Bountiful. Mr. Robbins graduated from Snow College and BYU.
Mr. Robbins's wife, Sheila Robbins, is also a teacher. She teaches fourth grade at Sage Creek Elementary. He has six kids, including Kristina, going by Kristi, Katherine going by Kathy, Karin, David, Jason, and Michael.
He also has 17 grandchildren, three of his grandchildren have been born within the last two months.
Mr. Robbins loves to teach; he loves to learn and watch people learn. He also loves to read and go fishing. He travels a lot, and has been all around the United States. He's also been to places outside of the Untied States, such as China, Israel, and lots of countries in Europe several times.
Mr. Robbins has lived many different places, some of them being Sweden, Monticello, Logan, Ephraim, Provo, and Strawberry Reservoir.
A student in Mr. Robbins class, Mark Smothers, said, "I love Mr. Robbins's class. The way he teaches is different from all the other teachers, and I like it a lot. He also likes to interact with his students, and I enjoy it."
Another one of Mr. Robbins's student, Hayde Blanco, said "I like his class to. He doesn't make us copy out of the book...well unless we're bad. I like it how he is really organized."
Mr. Robbins said, "I believe that if you teach a student how to learn and to like it...they'll do it, and if they learn self-discipline they can achieve success."