Master's student receives Dean's Scholarship at 2019 MAT Scholarship Award Ceremony

Ryan Ly is a Master of Arts in Teaching candidate pursuing his multiple subject teaching credential.

Ly received a School of Education Dean's Scholarship at the School of Education's 2019-2020 Scholarship Awards Ceremony on November 1.

​Dean's scholarship recipients are selected for their academic achievement and commitment to developing their skills and knowledge as new teachers.

"The greatest teacher that I ever had in life was that of my mother," Ly said. "She worked three jobs, seven days a week, and still found time to attend all my grade school ceremonies, make sure that I always had clean clothes to school, and cooked an entire meal for the family. Growing up, I never took my education seriously, even when I was accepted to UCI as an undergrad, I still saw education as just a piece of paper. It wasn’t until I began doing work in actual classrooms that I saw how important it is having someone there to push you. While the teachers taught their kids academics, they didn’t stress the importance of being anything else. Education was just a tiny speck of what is needed to truly be successful." 

"I was motivated to become a teacher because of my mother. She herself wasn’t educated yet she taught me more than 12+ years of school could. She taught me to work hard, be responsible for your actions, and above all else, care for others than yourself. I aspire to be to my future students what she was too me. After all, education is only useful if we teach how to use it."