A New Pedagogy?

I do believe that a new pedagogy is trying to emerge due to the advances in technology, but as discussed in Richardson's blog, Weblogg-ed, it faces multiple roadblocks. Teachers have the potential to be strong champions of this new pedagogy or we can be its greatest detractors. Our interactions with our students, positive or negative, have the potential to affect lives because our students pay attention to what we do (even more than to what we say!). To teach is to model, and if you don't think that students aren't watching what you do and say, just come to class one day with a different haircut or attire!

So Many Blogs...So Little Time!

I love using the Internet for research....Several years ago, a close friend of mine told me that she was taking on online math class and said, "You should be doing this!" It wasn't until I started taking classes online myself two years ago that I became interested in teaching a math class online.

Reminiscing about Chalk!

I jokingly say that one of the reasons that I became a teacher was because I loved writing on the chalkboard! Remember the days when it was a treat to write on the classroom chalkboard? And being allowed to use the "special" colored chalk? Oh my!

My Teaching Philosophy

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. Abraham Maslow

Math can serve as a major barrier for students achieving a degree; thus, sensitive, patient instructors are of great value. I strive to create in my classroom an environment that encourages each student to succeed and in which students can feel safe to ask questions, and to make and correct mistakes. My work with students with behavioral and emotional disorders and students with learning disabilities has made me even more aware of the struggle that some students have for the subject, their "math phobia" and the gaps in their math background.

My very first post ever!

I'm so excited! I can hardly stand it.