Sentences with phrase «wells high school math teacher»

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«My students were bored, confused, and resistant to math, because they had never done well in the subject,» notes Barbara Shoap, a math teacher at Philadelphia's George Washington High School.

To solve this problem, the state now requires high school students to take three years of math and science, and teachers will pilot end - of - year course assessments to gauge student performance and how well the courses stack up.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

Taillefer began as a Match Corps tutor in the second cohort and went on to be director of development as well as a math teacher and dean of students at Match Middle School and Match High School.

For a better sense of the magnitude of these estimates, consider a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile and is assigned to a top - quartile teacher as measured by the Overall Classroom Practices score; by the end of the school year, that student, on average, will score about three percentile points higher in reading and about two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

By far, improving academic achievement is an important issue, as well as reforming high schools and recruiting highly qualified teachers, particularly math, science, and special education teachers.

He proposed «to train 70,000 high - school teachers to lead Advanced Placement courses in math and science... bring 30,000 math and science professionals to teach in classrooms... and give early help to students who struggle with math, so they have a better chance at good, high - wage jobs.»

In Chicago, she taught special education and high school math for four years as well as was a founding math teacher at a charter network.

The middle grade years are the last best chance to get students ready for success both in high school and beyond, but these grades are often overlooked in both research and resources The MSM initiative takes on this challenge by turning high - quality research into strategies for districts, schools, and teachers to improve reading, writing, and math instruction.

She shared a number of valuable insights gained from visiting high - performing American Charter Schools and observing the practice of their best maths teachers.

The descriptive analysis of the data reveal that GE Model Schools maintain the higher mean pass rates in third grade math and reading despite higher student to teachers ratios, teacher to administrator ratios, and special education populations as well as lower rates of spending on instructional supports.

This statewide summit brought together K - 12 and higher education administrators, math faculty, and teacher preparation faculty to gain a clearer understanding of best practices in math instruction for students transitioning from elementary to middle school, middle school to high school, high school to gateway courses in higher education, and success in higher education programs.

A new paper by researchers at the University of Michigan, Stanford and the University of Virginia found that high teacher turnover in elementary schools has a negative effect on students» math and English achievement, regardless of whether the teachers who leave are considered especially good at their jobs.

If the optimists were right, the unions would have directed their lawyers, think tanks, communication operatives, and staffers to deliver results in many evidence - based areas, from overhauling schools of education, to promoting hands - on learning in science, technology, and math, to substantially higher salaries for the best teachers, to universal arts programs.

Using our new tools for measuring instructional content, we have found that elementary math and high school ELA teachers are providing instruction that is better aligned to the new standards in their state than are elementary ELA teachers and high school math teachers.

Because student performance on the state ELA and math tests is used to calculate scores on the Teacher Data Reports, the tests are high - stakes for teachers; and because New York City uses a similar statistical strategy to rank schools, they are high - stakes for schools as well.

All of our students deserve well - trained teachers, but high needs schools often struggle to retain teachers, especially in math and science.

Governor Baker could ask his state board to award a portion of the Title II funds to a group linked to the MIT Open CourseWare project for the explicit purpose of creating math and science lessons for grades 11 and 12 (unlinked to any set of standards) for Massachusetts high school math and science teachers to use to improve their students» chances of getting into and succeeding at good engineering schools.

Critical student needs: How technology can support math learning Based on conversations with with a diverse group of educators and edtech decision - makers, we believe that technology is especially well poised to create an impact on middle and high school math by making learning accessible to students of all abilities and cultural backgrounds, providing age - appropriate scaffolding for underdeveloped foundational concepts, enabling rich social interactions with peers and teachers, encouraging growth mindset, metacognition and agency, and creating opportunities to apply knowledge to real - world challenges.

Preference is given to future middle and high school math and science teachers, as well as those planning to teach special education in a content area.

Horizon Teachers is currently working with Good and Outstanding Inner London Schools that are looking for ambitious, passionate and high calibre Newly Qualified Teachers of Maths.