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Can't wait to see what you all post on your blogs! Please post the link within the padlet wall!

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https://shellfitz.wordpress.com

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https://almostfinished869465639.wordpress.com

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https://kiremonty.wordpress.com/2019/03/27/introduction-blog-math-21st-century/

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https://jerayblog.wordpress.com/

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shantitaylor.wordpress.com

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https://elisabethpalomares.home.blog/2019/09/23/a-introduction/

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Hello fellow Leos!

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Excited for this quarter. I love teaching and helping kids is my passion.

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Hi everyone, my name is Diana Ulibarri and I am excited to get to know all of you throughout the semester!

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My name is Grace and I currently work for Manhattan Beach Unified School District with children with special needs in a preschool setting. I have been in this field for 6+ years but before that I started off teaching children with disabilities how to swim which is where I found my love and passion for this career. I have a super loving and supportive family. Most importantly I have 8 nieces and nephews who I love dearly, two of them have special needs. My nephew is autistic and my niece has AHC which is similar to Cerebral Palsy. My goals consist of finishing off my last two semesters here at the University of La Verne and attaining my Bachelors in Educational Studies. I plan to go straight into my Masters/Credential Program to become a SPED teacher preschool/kindergarten age group. On my free time I like to travel and go on new adventures. I also like to go to Crossfit as well as yoga. I hope to learn fun, interactive and adaptable forms of teaching science to children with special needs. So later on in my career, I can incorporate what I learned from this class.

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Introduction My name is Grace and I currently work for Manhattan Beach Unified School District with children with special needs in a preschool setting. I have been in this field for 6+ years but before that I started off teaching children with disabilities how to swim which is where I found my love and passion...

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Hey everyone! Below I attached my blog.

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My name is James Forsythe and I'm owner of this here blog! Here is a little about me.

I was born in Santa Barbara, California in 1983, but I was raised in multiple cities until I turn 18 years old. For roughly three years, I lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico. My family got homesick for California and we moved back to Santa Barbara and finished middle school there. We then eventually moved to Buellton and then Lompoc during my high school years. When I finally turned 18 years old, I moved back to Santa Barbara in a quest to find stability in my living situation.

I started to attend Santa Barbara City College in 2003, where I experienced a love/hate relationship with academics. I never truly felt comfortable with school since I towns so much as a kid, which lead to hardship at every new school I attended. I left school around 2005 to pursue owning a carpet cleaning business. It was fairly profitable, however my business partner was not completely honest. So when the Great Recession hit, the business completely folded. After that fiasco, I returned to Santa Barbara City College and after 10 years of finding my way, now I am here at University of La Verne.

I have a seven month old daughter and she has become my life. She and my wife are the best things to ever happen to me. My wife and I married in 2010 and we are looking forward to celebrating our 10th anniversary next year.

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My name is James Forsythe and I'm owner of this here blog! Here is a little about me. I was born in Santa Barbara, California in 1983, but I was raised in multiple cities until I turn 18 years old. For roughly three years, I lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Stars Wishes

I am familiar with the process of solving math problems.

To know how to teach difficult kids.

I work well and have experience teaching kids.

I want to be more proactive in learning math.

I have experience in high level math.

I would like my students to do well in my classes.

I love teaching.

I hope they do not hate math after my class

I can make class fun.

I want to be their favorite teacher.

I'm very positive and engaging to students.

I want my students to feel positive about themselves and math as a whole.

As far back as I can remember, I was very adverse to math and school as a whole. I saw math as a useless subject after learning addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. I believed I was able to get by in life without knowing any form of algebra or anything higher. In elementary school, I only did enough to pass each grade and move on to the next. During high school, my student advisor would push me to take higher mathematics class due to the importance of the subject that I have yet found useful.

"They say that math is easy, the answers are black and white, so don't say that I'm cheesy because it gives me fight or flight. I never understand what the calculations mean, it's either a or b...and never in between. I'm always being asked to multiply, add, or divide, but I can never seem to do it, unless a teacher is by my side. So please dear Lord if you can hear me now, get me out of math somehow!"

That perception changed however, when I took an astronomy class at Santa Barbara City College and I fell in love with the subject. The class was a non-math based class designed for Liberal Arts majors and it opened my eyes to the physical world, I wanted to know more. I contacted my college advisor and asked about pursuing a major in something like astronomy. He said that school offers a major, but it requires completion of two years of calculus in order to transfer. After some sole searching, I decided it was worth the pain and anguish of taking math courses. Like Stacy London said, " Don't let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love." So I went for it and eventually transferred to Cal State Northridge with a Mathematics major.

I understand the struggle kids have with mathematics since I've experienced that for such a long period in my academic learning. My wish is for students to understand that they are not alone in this challenging subject and that I'm here for them. In the end, I was not able to complete my degree in math and felt my love and passion is in the classroom. However, I hope to inspire and assist my students in learning the subject and finding a love for it like I did. I hope to pass on my experiences so my students cannot make the same mistakes I did, but so they can avoid them. I want my students to be engaged in the learning process, find use of mathematics in their daily lives and embrace a challenge by taking it head on. I want them to know they can count on me and to feel comfortable asking me for help along the way. That is my ultimate goal when teaching math to elementary students, keep them interested in math and have them succeed where I couldn't.

References

Stacy London Quotes. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/stacy_london_531806?src=t_do_what_you_love.

Poems from kgallucci. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.powerpoetry.org/poet/kgallucci/poems.

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Stars Wishes I am familiar with the process of solving math problems. To know how to teach difficult kids. I work well and have experience teaching kids. I want to be more proactive in learning math. I have experience in high level math. I would like my students to do well in my...