For Emilee Workman, teaching choir wasn’t always the first option in her life. Just like us, finding her passion wasn’t an easy task. At the very beginning she tutored math which she later realized wasn’t something she wished doing her whole life. Although she did enjoy, “Helping kids to learn and seeing the light bulb turn on.”
She later went to a junior college where she got her associate’s degree in Science, but she didn’t really seem to actually find her passion there either. She transferred to Southern Utah University where she began to major in music education. This is when her she realized her passion for music was going to be a huge part of her life. Her passion for music derived from her upbringing.
“My mom plays the piano, so I would just sit on the bench with her and she’d play the piano and we’d sing together when I was growing up,” said Workman.
She also participated in church choir and did choir in high school. Music was always in her life; she just didn’t really realize her full passion for it until she transferred to SCU. Music is a very meaningful thing to her as she said, “I think that music is something that can speak to people on many different levels and I feel like in times of sadness and happiness and all the emotions that I feel I can always turn to music to help express those things.”
Workman is a teacher that loves her students and enjoys teaching, “Now that I’m in a high school, I see students sometimes from freshman year all the way to their senior year. You grow up so much throughout high school, so it’s almost like I get to watch you become adults and it is the coolest thing to experience to watch students become independent and advocate for themselves and find things they’re passionate about.”