Flagstaff High School

Spotlight of History 

Sienna Chitwood

Mr. Meyer is a World and U.S history teacher at Flagstaff High School. He grew up in a not so small, but not-so-big town of Belleville, Illinois and he went to college in Edwardsville at Southern Illinois University. He first realized his love for teaching when he was a Junior in high school. Mr. Meyer was quotes in saying, “I had an awesome Biology teacher and my mom was a teacher for 33 years.” Mr. Meyer always felt like he belonged in a class room, and it shows! Madison Slade said, “it’s easy and chill and I don't feel shredded out about it, I care about it but I am not stressed about it.” Madison feels like the work load for this class is “perfect.” Another student of his, Katie Salazar expressed that, “well, I feel like I enjoy this class, and I love my teacher.” When asked about the work load Katie said, “I feel that it’s not too much and not too little. It’s an even distribution of work, and it’s fun work!” If you do the work in his class, you will get a good grade. It's about the effort of you trying.

Mr. Meyer sparks intelligent conversations with students and peers. Nakiya Polelonema said that, “it's a happy, calm set environment and the lighting adds a sense of peace in here, it's a very calm community, and one is very knowledgeable and mellow.  Mr. Meyer’s class curriculum is easy. If you just pay attention and take notes you can do simple things for a good grade.” Sarah Holmes who is another student of Mr. Meyer’s history class said, “I think the curriculum is very slow and when everyone can ingest all the information; I think the order of what we are learning starting from the past and going into the future helps us understand how we came to the modern technology we have today, and to how we started from the Big bang to the Greek mythology unit.” Mr. Meyer originally studied to be a Wildlife Biology teacher before switching majors to history.  His first year when he began his teaching career, Mr. Meyer started teaching middle school. He expressed that, “it was insane. It was definitely the hardest year, but I was awarded teacher of the year that year for that school.” Mr. Meyers has been a teacher for 6 years and he plans on retiring in 25 years or later. Mr. Meyer is also married and has a child on the way.