Sentences with phrase «high school math teacher who»

I'm a high school math teacher who teaches at a private school in the suburbs of Philadelphia.

«I am very much concerned,» says state Rep. Rosa Gill, a Wake County Democrat and former high school math teacher who sits on the N.C. House of Representatives» education committee.

Spearheading the project to build that system was Josh Garcia, a former principal and high school math teacher who arrived in Tacoma as deputy superintendent in July 2012.

This chart compares traditional versus standards - based grading, courtesy of a Colorado - based high school math teacher who moved her class to standards - based grading:

When Gary Rubinstein, a New York City high school math teacher who has dabbled in stand - up comedy, wanted to teach his students about symmetry, he showed them two pictures of movie star Angelina Jolie — one with just the left side of her face reflected back on itself, and one with just the right side reflected.

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My high school teacher Dora Di Rocco - Smith was particularly interested in doing enriched math in the classroom for students who didn't have access to enrichment activities.

The honorees, DeWitt Middle School technology teacher David Buchner and Ithaca High School math teacher Steve Weissburg, were recognized as teachers who:

Physics lessons can be taught by qualified engineers, history lessons can be taught by former lawyers and maths teachers can be former City high - fliers who have chosen to change their careers; they are not prevented from teaching in these schools because they do not have a certain teaching qualification.

WBFO News talked with Bennett High School math teacher Jeff Gross, who has no idea what will happen if his school cSchool math teacher Jeff Gross, who has no idea what will happen if his school cschool closes.

The researchers also monitored the advanced math and science courses that students chose to take in high school, concluding that the girls who had been discouraged by their elementary school teachers were much less likely than the boys to opt for advanced courses.

The main story follows Noah (Jeff Branson), the swim class teacher and his bout with depression; Jordan (Jess Weixler), a girl who works part time in a casino and part time as an exotic dancer; Amy (Paget Brewster), a high school math teacher whose husband left her for another teacher; and a young man (I never did catch his name) who seems to live at the casino where Jordan works and who meets and beds Amy.

Steve Goffner, a high school math teacher in New York City, caught one student who had copied answers on his math Regents Exam from friends» text messages.

Van Roekel, 61, is a former high - school math teacher who seems to revel in his anonymity.

«At the moment, there are some teachers who go into primary teaching, and they haven't done the higher levels of maths and science in high school,» he added.

One transfer applicant who came close to bumping Simion was a 71 - year - old math teacher from Seward Park High School.

Evan Stoudt is a math teacher from New Orleans who sings to his high school math students (adorable!)

Students who scored in the top quarter of the sixth - grade math exam averaged anywhere from 19 to 26 on the high school ACT math test; the variations correlated with the effectiveness scores of their high school math teachers.

For example, a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile on the state reading and math test and is assigned to a teacher in the top quartile in terms of overall TES scores will perform on average, by the end of the school year, three percentile points higher in reading and 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.

The school characteristics include whether it is in an urban area, grade level (e.g., high school), the number of students enrolled, student - teacher ratio, the percentage of students who are eligible for the free or reduced - price lunch program, the percentage of minority students, and measures of student achievement in reading and math.

Some of the high school texts were absolutely first - rate, and new - math - era textbooks like Mary Dolciani's «Structure and Method» series for algebra and geometry continue to be used by math teachers who understand mathematics and how it is to be taught.

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.

So, in addition to the commitment to be in classrooms more, and be more of an instructional leader, one principal may also have a commitment (without realizing it) to be known to the teachers as a principal who is available to them 24/7, or to not finding out about things I don't want to have to deal with, or even to not having my teachers discover I know nothing about high school math.

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.»

Let's Fix Math Education By Redefining Math National Geographic, 3/24/16 The secret of countries such as high - performing Finland may be quality primary school teachers, who often have deep math training, according to Pasi Sahlberg, a former math teacher who has chronicled the Finnish success story and is now a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.&school teachers, who often have deep math training, according to Pasi Sahlberg, a former math teacher who has chronicled the Finnish success story and is now a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.&School of Education.»

Says Jodee Rose, a former art and math teacher who developed a middle school lesson plan for teaching the method, «It's low tech, but it's high tech ideas, because it's working through computer language, which kids are going to need to learn eventually.»

Eeva Reeder, a former math teacher who led a high school geometry project on designing a school for 2050, says she started project - based learning for three reasons: First, her students were not learning concepts deeply enough to apply or even remember them for a long period.

Teachers who work in a given school, and therefore teach students with similar demographic characteristics, can be responsible for increases in math and reading levels that range from a low of one - half year to a high of one and a half years of learning each academic year.

As a result, many districts end up filling high school chemistry, biology, physics, and math slots with teachers who've taken few courses in those areas themselves.

Beatty, who has been using and studying CRS products for more than a decade, acknowledges that the language and purpose of the question cycle, which he says is «to form habits of mind and find the limits of knowledge,» sound more ivory tower than AP Bio, but he contrasts the current norm — the quick and shallow recall of facts required of American high school science and math students — with his larger objective: renouncing the myth of coverage, the idea that what a teacher covers in class matters.

This work will require different types of union contracts and compensation that pay more to teachers in shortage areas like math and science and disproportionally increase salaries for the early career teachers and principals in high need schools who are most likely to leave the profession.

Ensuring quality teachers in every classroom by recruiting, training, retaining, and rewarding teachers and school leaders; creating career ladders and increasing pay for effective teachers who serve as mentors, teach in high - need subjects, such as math and science, and who excel in the classroom; and by identifying ineffective and struggling teachers, providing them with individual help and support, and removing them from the classroom in a quick and fair way if they still underperform.

Educational policy makers, who were in high school 20 - 30 years ago, remember a classroom that no longer exists — one with students quietly reading while the English teacher grades essays and one with students checking each others» math papers while abiding by the honor system.

«I saw a lot of math teachers who were initially resistant to Common Core at the high school level start to change their mind when they realize there are some changes being made at the lower grades, changes they'd wanted to happen for a long time,» says Ryan Davis, a math teacher at Central.

Jay Harlow is a freelance writer who is currently a special education teacher at Berkeley High School, specializing in remedial math.

Darren Burris, who teaches high - school math in Boston Collegiate Charter School, volunteered to coach other teachers on implementation and sees the standards as an «opportunity.&school math in Boston Collegiate Charter School, volunteered to coach other teachers on implementation and sees the standards as an «opportunity.&School, volunteered to coach other teachers on implementation and sees the standards as an «opportunity.»

A 2011 study of the effects of teacher turnover on the performance over five years of more than 600,000 fourth - and fifth - graders in New York City found that students who experienced higher teacher turnover scored lower in math and English on standardized tests — and this was «particularly strong in schools with more low - performing and black students.»

When asked about testing high school students, 55 percent of voters said California should test students in all subjects, as opposed to 34 percent who said the state should test students in math and English but let teachers evaluate their students in other subjects.

Career pathways would provide more financial incentives for teachers who produce positive outcomes in the classroom, such as higher test scores; for those who teach subjects that are in high demand in the marketplace (e.g. chemistry or math); and for those who teach in hard to staff schools.

North Carolina, Louisiana, and Tennessee all independently concluded that TFA corps members were the most effective out of recent graduates from other teacher preparation programs with which they had worked.151 A controlled study conducted by Mathematica found that students taught by TFA teachers earned higher math scores than students taught by non-TFA teachers with similar years of experience; the TFA - taught students learned approximately 2.6 months of additional material in math during the school year.152 Similarly, another study found that TFA first to third grade teachers» students grew 1.3 additional months in reading compared with their peers who had non-TFA teachers.153

Teachers who work in hard - to - staff schools, teach high need subjects like math or chemistry, and pursue «other opportunities for improvement» could also earn raises beyond what would be offered with the new professional salary schedule.

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.

That may, for example, attract a great math teacher — as measured by student performance — to a high - need school who might not otherwise consider teaching there as an attractive option.

«Now I have my finger on the pulse of every student -LSB-...] we are constantly excited about how much our students are achieving,» said Sue Crick, a teacher at Colo High School, NSW, who has been using Maths Pathway since the beginning of 2017.

One sixth - grade class in which none of the students passed math had a teacher who previously worked at the high school level, Shafer told the school board.

In schools that had more instructional technology and teacher training, the average increase in the percentage of high school students who took and passed the state Regents (college preparatory) exam in math was 7.5; the average increase in the percentage of those who took and passed the Regents English exam was 8.8.

«These kids come out of high school with a very shaky command of high school math and eventually become teachers who can show their students the steps for doing a long division problem, but can't tell them why it works.

Habor Teacher Preparation Academy was the top - performing school on the math test this year among all district high schools: 80 percent of the school's 116 students who took the test met or exceeded standards.

Raleigh - Egypt High School math teacher Adam Guerrero, who tends the garden with three neighbors and students, (Jarvis, Jovantae, and Shaquielle) was cited by the city for creating a public nuisance - specifically with violating city ordinance 48 - 38, which says that:

Classroom was the brainchild of Mr. Rochelle, who started Google's education apps group, and Zach Yeskel, a Google product manager and former high school math teacher.

The 21 - year - old says she fears for her mother, who is a middle and high school math teacher.