About Mr. Gallagher I'm a current Mesa Community College student at Mesa Community College pursuing a degree in Elementary Education. I would ideally love to be a resource teacher for students with IEPs at the upper elementary level. That being said I believe elementary curriculum is unique in the fact every teacher is responsible for teaching all subjects. This holistic view of education is much truer to education than being highly specialized in subject. I look forward to teaching upper elementary as well because it puts you in a great position in which to be a strong influence in the person your students become once they are confronted with the freedom that middle school and high school allow. In my personal time I love to run and enjoy the outdoors. I personally find tremendous benefit to bringing the classroom outdoors and learning in a highly kinesthetic fashion.
Recently I was exposed to the concepts of interior and exterior angles. We learned to very beneficial formula of 180(n-2) for interior angles. In many education environments you take the formula and simply plug in the corresponding numbers. Instead, we took time to process that the subtraction of 2 accounts for the two triangles that can't be formed in the process of triangulation, due to being adjacent sides to a vertex in a polygon. I believe triangulation is extremely beneficial to visual learners who need to visually process the amount of triangles; and thus interior angles, in a given polygon. The concept of interior and exterior angles amounting to a supplementary angle of 180 degrees is also greatly beneficial. Through our recent geometry activities, we have been exposed to a great deal of helpful teaching manipulatives. We were exposed to one technology that enables teachers to guide a powerpoint presentation on students individual tablets. This innovative teaching I thi