Graduate student receives Child Caregiver of the Year award
Darius Phelps, a first-year master’s student in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, recently received the Child Caregiver of the Year award from the Georgia Association on Young Children (GAYC) for his exemplary work with children and commitment to the field of education.
Phelps has been employed at the University of Georgia’s Child Development Lab at the McPhaul Center since 2012 when he was an undergraduate student studying human development and family studies. He received GAYC’s large center award last September, which honors caregivers working with 50 or more children.
This award is proof of how hard I’ve worked in order to stand where I am today," said Phelps, who plans to graduate in 2017 with a master’s degree in reading education. “The accolade itself is one that I would have never fathomed being honored with so early on in my teaching career.