Train and manage part -
time math content specialists to assist on content development and delivery
Not exact matches
In her latest book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, she charges that the state reading and
math tests mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act lower the bar, produce inconsistent results, lack
content, promote cheating, and encourage teachers to waste
time on test - taking strategies.
The 50 - 50 model of dual language instruction splits language instruction both by
content and in
time; for example, science and social studies may be taught in Spanish while language arts and
math are taught in English.
The following shows the average percentage of lesson
time devoted to reviewing, introducing new
content, and practicing new
content in 8th grade
math classes.
When I did a PBL project with my science and
math teacher (I was teaching English at the
time), students would come to me with questions that involved
content in areas beyond my expertise.
«They either need more
time on
content, or they've really been burned by traditional
math instruction,» says the teacher from San Lorenzo Valley High School, near Santa Cruz, California.
Science teacher Aliesia McCoy, pressed into duty teaching
math for the first
time, relies heavily on online lesson - sharing sites and teacher blogs to find
content for her students.
As The New York
Times» Motoko Rich pointed out, the weakest performance among fourth - graders was on
math topics they haven't yet learned: NAEP is testing them on
content that won't be introduced until the following year.
Because MyFlexPD is accessible anywhere, anytime within DreamBox, teachers can deepen their understanding of
math content without sacrificing valuable instructional
time with students.
This recommendation reflects the need for U.S.
math instruction to include less total topics and more
time for mastery of selected
content.
«I don't think (kindergarten and first grade teachers) are going to have a hard
time with Common Core
math,» said Elsie Briseno Simonovski, administrator of academic
content design in Orange.
Whether in an elementary
math lesson or a secondary social studies lesson, teachers must scaffold
content, process, and product on the basis of student needs, setting aside
time to meet with small groups of students to address gaps in learning.
Complete dozens of quests, level up a hundred
times and play five different classes that's a ton of
content you do the
math, we all went to high - school well I didn't I was too busy huffing paint behind the cafeteria