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Greetings,
My name is Sue Gnagy Fegan and I have been teaching for over 30 years. My area of expertise had been with a multisensory teaching approach for teaching children with language learning issues. These are your dyslexics with a lot of ADD thrown in. See It, Say It, Hear It, Write It, Manipulate It and Play With It is my manta and I am passionate about applying it in everything I teach.. I ended up teaching and training teachers quite a bit, and loved the interaction of working with committed adults who truly wanted to learn some ways to enhance their own teaching to create a multisensory classroom. My workshop at the annual International Dyslexia Association conferences called Make It Fun! Make It Challenging! Make It Multisensory! was a bit hit and we presented it all over the country! My husband took early retirement and so I of course jumped at the opportunity to quit work and move to the beach with him! A no-brainer as far as I am concerned! He is just enough older than me, (I am so NOT at social security age), so I chose to look for ways to earn some income from home, so we could do all those retirement things together. Everything you read on this site and all my recommendations are based on solid foundation of what I know to work with all children, not just the language needy. One of my two children was a whiz at math, the other not so much, One was ADD the other compulsively organized, One loved to read the other we had to bribe. So we often had to jump through hoops to help make math and the rest of school work more sense. I am not sure if we ever made math fun, but I did not have access to all these materials back then! I did use almost off the Fun Teaching Tips with my kids at home when helping to study for tests! This is all very new to me, so I have not figured out yet how to create an email question and answer opportunity. I do have a blog Make Math More Fun Blog where I am pretty sure comments can be left and I will absolutely answer them. I add new content there once or twice a week. You will find to tips for teachers and tips for parents. So that is all the news that is news about me, I wish you luck in your quest to make math fun for your students and challenge you to figure out how to make learning more fun in your classroom. Sue Gnagy Fegan http://sfegan-makemathmorefun.blogspot.com/ |
Here I am standing on the International Date Line! How cool for a teacher to actually be there!
It is symbolic the changes in my life as a Baby Boomer standing between retirement and all those years of teaching! |