Hello all, my name is David Georgia. I am married and have three boys ages 5, 3, and 3 months. I teach a severely handicapped (SH) class in the Capistrano Unified School District. This will be my third year in this classroom. I spent the previous two years in a SDC classroom, prior to that I taught four years of RSP and one year of SH in the Orange Unified School Districts Along with teaching I have also coached baseball at at both schools. I attended elementary school in Garden Grove at Evan's Elementary. From there my family moved to Hemet where I attended Hemet Junior High and Hemet High School. After attending Riverside Community College and Mount San Jacinto Community College, I transferred to Point Loma Nazarene University. After graduation I received my level I special education credential from National University.
I am currently a PC user. I am however interested in transitioning over to a Mac. I do use basic technology daily with e-mails and finding resources on the web I can use for my students, such as Edhelper.com. I have started to use the computer in class to present information to my students. I use my laptop and a LCD projector to help facilitate group writing assignments (my penmanship is pretty poor). I enjoy using the computer because it does make things easier and the students think what we are doing is more important if they see it on the computer.
In the College of Ed. mission statement the phrase that stands out to me is the "commitment to student centered education". Being a special education teacher this is at the heart of what I believe in and what I do. I am a strong believer in allowing the students to process and use the information they learn in their own way. It is more important to me that a student can use what they have learned outside the context of the class than to be able to regurgitate memorized facts that they find meaningless.
