First Blog Post

I am a math teacher at McKinley Tech. I teach math because there is such a high need. I have enough credits to teach other subjects but DCTF needed math teachers. So here I am. I love math, love school, so it doesn't really matter.
I have noticed that my students require more motivation than I anticipated. I had the disillusionment that grades were adequate motivators, but less than half of the kids seem to truly care about there grades. I have to keep inventing new ways to keep them motivated. I think the biggest strength I have with my students compared to many of my fellows is that my students do come to school. It makes it 10 times easier to teach to a consistent audience, even if many of them have 5-6 grade math skills.
I have taken content area classes before so I'm not sure what I want to learn in this class. I guess I will just see what is there. It would have been nice to know what book was suggested/required for this course. There has been nothing posted at the bookstore, and no syllabus.
I hope that means there will be no tests too :)