Hi, my name is Sarah Eiserman and I am a Special Education Teacher at Badger High School in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. This is my third year here and I love it. We are a fully inclusive school so I co-teach in the math department. This is the first year that I only teach math, the past few years I also taught Freshman English. I teach Algebra A and Algebra B (Algebra B is new to me this year in place of the English). The school decided to split Algebra 1 into two years to help meet the needs of more learners. I also teacher a Consumer Math class which is the only special education class offered in the school. I enjoy this class as I am free to be as creative as I want and the pace of the class is great for my students.
I am most excited about learning everything in this class. I relate well to my students as I can't remember a time without the Internet or having a cell phone and I sometimes feel funny around my not so tech-savvy co-workers. However, I do worry about this class because I do not want 60 students joining in on my blogs or Twittering me. In the future I would like to use what I learn with my students but not while I'm learning it. I want to learn how to better incorporate technology and blogging into my classes. One of our school goals is reading in the content areas and I would like to include more reading into math and then have the students post about the readings.
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The idea of students sharing things in writing is facilitated by many of these technologies. There has been some research that shows they are more careful with their writing when they know they are sharing with more than the teacher.
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