Pamela Myrick-Mottley, M.Ed.
Director
First Things First

Pamela Myrick-Mottley, M.Ed., is director of First Things First, an on-site professional development intervention to promote more effective, age-appropriate behavior guidance by early childhood teachers, assistant teachers, and administrators.

Myrick-Mottley holds a B.S. in child development from Mississippi College and the M.Ed. degree from the University of Southern Mississippi with a specialization in reading. She has completed additional post-graduate work in educational administration at William Carey College, and she has also completed post-graduate study in play therapy at both the University of Alabama and William Carey.

She was an instructor in child development at Jones Junior College in Ellisville, Miss., for twelve years, teaching courses in language and literacy, social and emotional development, methods and materials, and pre-school administration. She was a pilot kindergarten teacher for the State of Mississippi in the Hattiesburg Public Schools where she continued to teach and work for over ten years. Her teaching experience also includes serving as master teacher and coordinator of the Choctaw Culture Early Education Program for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, and she has been an instructor in child development, elementary reading, and early childhood education at the University of Southern Mississippi, and William Carey College.  She taught developmental reading and college study skills at Holmes Community College and she also worked as a pre-school teacher at the Children’s Center in Lexington, Mississippi.

Myrick-Mottley has served on the State of Mississippi Early Childhood Certification Committee and as an early childhood consultant for the Southern Early Childhood Association, working with projects in Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. She has worked on public policy and child advocacy with the Mississippi Early Childhood Association. She lives in Hattiesburg with her husband Tom Richardson and is proud to be a step-parent to John and Ryan Richardson and her Mottley crew, Emily, Cabe and Brent.

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