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Mrs. alisa berger
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Brookhaven Elementary School
Hometown:
Rockville ,MD
Class Information:
Room Number: 226
Students per Class: 7
Class Description:
Self contained learning disabilities classroom
Position:
special education classroom teacher
Needs:
digital camera with video clip ability and audio projector singlebutton mice
My Philosophy:
The world into which our students were born is changing at an unprecedented pace. As educators, we are charged with surrounding them in environments that offer each child experiences and expectations to succeed in this world. Although we are each born with specific neurology, experience and expectations shape our imagination. Imagination fires the vision of possibilities. Nurturing the vision feeds the desire to reach, risk, and triumph. As computers became more and more casually present in the classroom, it has become clear to me that computers have the capacity to fully engage children in the act of learning and exploring, no matter how significantly their ability or desire to interact is impaired. In the last few years I have seen more and more children, who have closed themselves to the world, begin to tell their stories through clip art, print and digital photography. Students who cannot sit at a table to learn for more than two minutes spend thirty minutes solving computer game puzzles so that they can have the highest score. Children who have never had a pet or been to the ocean ask for digital zoo walks day after day so that that they can hear the whale sing and see the polar bear swim. My destination now, as I see it, is to help build more accessible paths through technology for these children to learn about new worlds and share their worlds with others.
Personal Information:
College and Degrees:
BA Health PE and Sport Studies Rutgers University MS Special Education Hood College MS Technology for Education Johns Hopkins University
Activities:
Reading Hiking Desigingvideo games Spending time with my family
Favorite Quotes:
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. -Harry Emerson Fosdick. Human beings are because they are in a situation.- Paulo Freire. “We cannot grasp any idea, any organ of mediation, we cannot possess it in its full force, until we have felt and sensed it, as much so as if it were an odor or a color. -Dewey