Haubold arrived at Riley 5 years
ago as a math teacher after graduating from Indiana University in Bloomington.
Not exact matches
Hegarty, 34, became a
teacher six years
ago following a career
as an accountant and has created over 1,000 online videos to help explain
maths to secondary school pupils.
During a visit to Ontario several years
ago, one of the authors asked a young
math teacher if becoming a
teacher in Canada was really
as difficult
as policy makers made it out to be.
Dr. Steiner, who became education commissioner a year
ago, said that the exams had tested a narrow part of the curriculum, particularly in
math, and that questions were often repeated year to year, with a few details changed, so that a student who had taken a practice test —
as many
teachers have their students do — were likely to do well.
Seeing her assessment
as an «average»
teacher in English and a «more effective than average»
teacher in
math hit the Los Angeles Times a few years
ago was upsetting and embarrassing, she said.
Not that the latter is shocking; two months
ago, state officials sought approval from the administration to delay using the evaluation system in rewarding high - quality
teachers and sacking laggards,
as well
as to exempt kids taking trial versions of Common Core reading and
math tests being rolled out in the next couple of years from having to take the current battery of state exams.