Since the model launched as a nationwide initiative in 2006, almost 700 CTE teachers in nearly 30 states or large districts, along with
their math teacher partners, have been trained in Math - in - CTE professional development sessions.
In this process, CTE teachers examine the CTE concepts they teach, then work with
math teacher partners to identify embedded math intersections and create a curriculum map.
Not exact matches
Distinguished
math and science faculty from Harvard College will assist in the development of the case studies, which will serve as the basis of a course that will be offered tuition - free to
teachers from the
partner districts.
Partnering with a local
teacher supply store, Conococheague Elementary School in Hagerstown, Maryland, invited families for an evening of
math activities and games to provide a foundation for practice at home.
Pair: The
teacher asks students to turn to a
partner and take turns exchanging
math strategies and observations.
As
partners in the professional development (PD) sessions, the
math teachers learned new, authentic applications of mathematics.
I may not have time to do an impromptu lesson on
math but I can make sure everything is completed,» said Jason Zimba, one of the three lead writers of Common Core's
math standards and founding
partner of Student Achievement
Partners, a group that helps
teachers with the standards.
For example, a small school might hire a part - time
teacher as a reading interventionist,
partner with a community organization to provide art or music lessons in exchange for weekend space, or ask a
math teacher to teach coding in addition to algebra.
Teachers are supposed to make children
partners in the acquisition of knowledge, helping them to see that
math isn't only — or even mainly — about right answers, it's about exploration and discovery, and the sort of critical thinking and problem - solving they'll do in college some day.
Jason Zimba, a founding
partner of Student Achievement
Partners and a member of the Common Core
math standards writing team, doesn't think
teachers should throw out age - old
math problems like seven plus eight.
Each CTE
teacher worked with a
math partner in the development of
math - enhanced lessons and supportive instructional tools — learning new ways to teach their respective content areas.
Across the country, our
partner schools are living proof that ST
Math engages, motivates and challenges both students and
teachers toward higher levels of
math achievement.
Test results from a
partner school district of third - through eighth - grade students of first - year
teachers demonstrate that those taught by Teachers College graduates scored significantly higher in reading and math than students of other t
teachers demonstrate that those taught by
Teachers College graduates scored significantly higher in reading and math than students of other t
Teachers College graduates scored significantly higher in reading and
math than students of other
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