Erin+Buie

My name is Erin Buie. I am 23 yrs. old. I am from Myrtle Beach, SC. I grew up being a Clemson fan and attending lots of Clemson football games. I love spending my summers at the beach. Everytime I go to the beach, you basically have to drag me out of the water and off the beach when you are ready to go home. I have always known that I wanted to work with kids. My 2nd semester of my senior year of high school I was a teacher's assistant for a 1st grade class. I enjoyed getting to know and work with the students and the teacher. I spent two years in college at coastal carolina university where I was an early childhood educaiton major but I knew that I was meant for better things so I decided to transfer to clemson in the fall of 2007. I initially wanted to major in early childhood education but was put in special education. I started taking special education classes and realized that this was the major for me. After graduation, I hope to be able to work in a classroom for students with LD.

I consider myself to be knowledgeable about technology. I spend a lot of time doing work on the computer. I have taken various classes throughout my high school and college career that have helped me be able to become more knowledegeable about how to use computers. I feel like I need more knowledge in how to use smartboards and prometheans because I am not really sure how to use those.

I really like this manipulative. It shows students how to find the answer when adding positive and negative numbers. I think that students will find this manipulative to be useful because it visually shows them how to do the problem and for these types of problems students need visual representation to show them how to best get the answer. I really like this manipulative as well. It shows students how to do prime factorization for certain numbers. I think that students will find this manipulative to be useful because it visually shows them how to do the problem and by giving them a visual representation of how to complete the problem, they have a better chance of getting the problem right.