Sentences with phrase «with high school math teacher»

Most recently, I worked with a high school math teacher to create a performance - based assessment for a unit on probability.

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Two days ago it seemed sure that the worst homework assignment of the year would be the «go on a date with a classmate and act ladylike» assignment from a Utah Financial Literacy class, but the week isn't even out yet, and a Pennsylvania math teacher is joining the competition with a high school math problem about sexual assault.

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.

As a retired high school math teacher, I am impressed with the graph drawn on the chalkboard.

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.

Two leading educators have told Education Matters that the key to engaging high school students with STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) is through teachers, and have called for a greater focus on professional learning.

In their article, «The Relative Equitability of High - Stakes Testing versus Teacher - Assigned Grades: An Analysis of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS),» Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers Robert T. Brennan and James S. Kim, and UMass Boston researchers Melodie Wenz - Gross and Gary N. Siperstein compared 736 student results on the MCAS with teacher - assigned grades in order to analyze the relative equitability of the two measures across three subject areas — math, English, and sTeacher - Assigned Grades: An Analysis of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS),» Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers Robert T. Brennan and James S. Kim, and UMass Boston researchers Melodie Wenz - Gross and Gary N. Siperstein compared 736 student results on the MCAS with teacher - assigned grades in order to analyze the relative equitability of the two measures across three subject areas — math, English, and steacher - assigned grades in order to analyze the relative equitability of the two measures across three subject areas — math, English, and science.

Imagine a high tech, state - of - the - art science lab on wheels, one that provides teachers with tools for coordinating school programs and projects and allows them to share with kids the fun and mystery of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).

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.

Ben Merrill, principal of southwestern Idaho's small, rural Notus Junior / Senior High School and superintendent for the Notus School District, says, «Out here, when I have an opening for a teacher in advanced science or math, I may get two to three applicants, all right out of college — no one with a master's degree.

With funding from the U.S. Department of Education, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, in collaboration with the Boston Plan for Excellence and the Boston Public Schools, has developed the Transition to Teaching Math and Science (T2MS) Program to address the shortage of qualified math and science teachers in Boston's middle and high schoWith funding from the U.S. Department of Education, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, in collaboration with the Boston Plan for Excellence and the Boston Public Schools, has developed the Transition to Teaching Math and Science (T2MS) Program to address the shortage of qualified math and science teachers in Boston's middle and high schowith the Boston Plan for Excellence and the Boston Public Schools, has developed the Transition to Teaching Math and Science (T2MS) Program to address the shortage of qualified math and science teachers in Boston's middle and high sSchools, has developed the Transition to Teaching Math and Science (T2MS) Program to address the shortage of qualified math and science teachers in Boston's middle and high schoolsschools.

A teacher in an area with a high degree of private school choice is 10 percent more likely to have majored in math or science than a teacher in an area with minimal private school choice.

Imagine this: You're a ninth - grade math teacher, and you've just been anointed as head of the school's wellness committee, a team thrown together to deal with student stress levels that are «far too high.»

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.»

Above all, the law's requirement that students be tested annually in reading and math in grades 3 - 8 and once in high school has provided parents, teachers, and other citizens with detailed information about students» performance in these foundational subjects — and therefore the extent to which they have mastered skills that are prerequisites for other educational goals.

Fryer and his colleagues at EdLabs worked with the superintendent to apply the five tenets to the failing schools: helping to hire new principals and new teachers, setting up a culture of no excuses and high expectations, and implementing tutoring in reading and math.

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.

A former middle and high school math teacher, Star's research has explored the development of flexibility in mathematical problem solving, with flexibility defined as knowledge of multiple strategies for solving mathematics problems and the ability to adaptively choose among known strategies on a particular problem.

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.

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.

He spent nine years teaching math as a founding teacher of the New York Harbor School, an innovative public high school where he also worked closely with teachers, families, and college admissions offices directing the college access process for first generation college - going stuSchool, an innovative public high school where he also worked closely with teachers, families, and college admissions offices directing the college access process for first generation college - going stuschool where he also worked closely with teachers, families, and college admissions offices directing the college access process for first generation college - going students.

She has helped, for instance, mend misconceptions about career and technical education by convening the district's secondary - math teachers with peers at the Central Pennsylvania Institute of Science and Technology — a technical high school serving Bellefonte and two other nearby districts.

For example, Clotfelter et al. (2008) found that a targeted bonus to certified math, science and special education teachers working in disadvantaged North Carolina schools reduced the attrition of targeted teachers by 17 percent, while Feng and Sass (2015) found that loan forgiveness programs for teachers with high - needs endorsements reduced the attrition of teachers in shortage areas in Florida.

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.

We found that after middle school and high school teachers worked with ASMP mentors for just one year, their students from diverse backgrounds make statistically significant gains in math compared with students taught by «business - as - usual» teachers.

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.

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As a teacher, he worked closely with low - income high school math students that were taking Algebra for the second and sometimes third time.

It also doubled down on high stakes testing, teaching to the test, grinding the curriculum down to math and reading, disrespecting teachers, data mining and shaming schools whose students struggle daily with poverty by labeling them failures.

As he moved through the elementary grades, my son David Marshall seemed to be locked into a math / science trajectory; his route was altered by studying with a single high school history teacher, and David is now a history teacher.

For example, the Minnesota - Toronto study found that in schools with higher achievement on math tests, teachers tended to share in leadership and believed that parents were involved with the school.

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.»

A former Riverton High School math and basketball instructor accused of having a sexual relationship with a 17 - year - old student pleaded guilty Friday to reduced charges that will keep the 23 - year - old teacher from having a felony record.

ASCD recently announced two finalists from the spring nomination period: La'Mont Geddis, a technology coordinator and teacher at Ernest E. Just Middle School in Michellville, Maryland; and Alesia Slocumb - Bradford, a math teacher at Jefferson Junior High School in Washington, D.C. Geddis and Slocumb - Bradford will compete for the 2004 OYEA award along with the two finalists selected in November.

By taking hard - to - fill positions — like high school math teacher — or going to high - need schools, participating in extra professional development or meeting two goals they set at the beginning of the year with their principals, teachers can earn from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars more each year.

While there is not a clear causal effect between a teacher's own academic record and his or her ability to achieve the kinds of learning gains that help students excel, most studies do find a correlation between higher GPA and teacher effectiveness.43 Taken in aggregate with other factors, such as experience and rank of undergraduate school, some studies have found larger positive impacts, especially for math achievement.44 For this reason, a high GPA should not be the only factor that determines entry into the profession.

A high school math teacher I worked with described it this way:

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.

In response to one such request, we recently provided local high school math and language arts teachers in Washington with professional development on scaffolding tasks in their content areas.

Through Math and Science Smart (MASS), we prepared and placed middle and high school math and science teachers with ESL supplemental endorsement in 10 high - need Texas school districts.

This teacher will be a member of a three - person Middle School (grades 5 - 8) math team in an established program designed to prepare all students for Honors - level placement in high school coursework, with top students generally being placed in Honors Algebra II / Trig as freSchool (grades 5 - 8) math team in an established program designed to prepare all students for Honors - level placement in high school coursework, with top students generally being placed in Honors Algebra II / Trig as freschool coursework, with top students generally being placed in Honors Algebra II / Trig as freshmen.

The government said it had recruited more maths teachers this year than last, with the number and quality of teachers in England's schools «at a record high».

The solutions would start with economically diverse housing options in all towns in CT, quality pre-natal care, quality pediatric care, high school courses on parenting, in - home parenting classes for teens, a robust curriculum rich in the arts, social sciences, science, math, and character education, lots of playtime in a safe literature rich environment for pre-schoolers, summer school and before and after school care provided by TFA or some other organization of young recent college graduates, small class size, teacher leaders instead of building administrators, and collaboration time built into the school day.

We have prepared teachers in high - need areas that were identified by school districts, such as bilingual / ESL, special education, math, science and other subjects with an added supplemental certification in ESL and special education.

The bonuses were announced with considerable fanfare last month, with the district saying $ 1.3 million in all went to the top - rung teachers, with the maximum of $ 12,500 going to those teaching both in high - need schools and in high - need subjects like math and science.

In his ruling, Judge [James] Chalfant contrasted the high rate of positive teacher evaluations in the district — 97.6 in the 2009 - 10 school year — with low student proficiency in English and math.

ST. GEORGE — Dixie State University is set to help more high school students take college - level math courses with the help of a Math Teacher Preparation Grant from the Utah System of Higher Education.