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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Math teachers are relieved with the new principal—at least he understands the courses, unlike the previous one. Every change implemented so far has originated from the math faculty and has incorporated feedback from parents and former students.

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By understanding the courses, you mean he took similar courses 40 years ago. Every change so far has been to make TJ less exceptional and more like every other public high school. This is also directed by Reid who is misusing equity by believing every high school should offer the same courses, including TJ. [/quote]

This!  Teachers are definitely not happy with the changes, including the math dept. He's turning TJ into a base school. Why would anyone choose to go there now when they can get the same exact classes with less of a commute?[/quote]

All of the recent math changes were suggested by TJ’s math teachers, and parents were kept in the loop by principal through PTSA briefings.

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Just because the principal and the PTSA shared this with parents does not make it true. Ask an actual teacher.[/quote]

+1 
TJ Math teacher [/quote]

Upset that your are going to have to teach your math classes now? [/quote]

What a ridiculous comment. [/quote]

I'm a TJ parent and agree. Except that they have the kids teaching each other half the time so I'm still left wondering what the math teachers do.

My kids teacher apparently had so many kids failing that when my kid was struggling they didn't even bother to reach out. It felt very F - U. [/quote]

OK. All these anonymous complaints about teachers not teaching are hard to accept. Plenty of students are failing for various reasons that have nothing to do with teachers. At least half of my students don’t complete hw because it is not graded, don’t do corrections properly for assessments, don’t listen to lectures. Then they complain. 
But that aside, how replacing sequence of classes would change my teaching style? That is what I found so ridiculous about the post snide. [/quote]

You're right, it probably wouldn't change the teaching style. If the department has a rotten culture gotta clean house.

In all seriousness, failing students is a reflection of the teacher's inability to teach or arrogance that they want to see kids fail.

So what if the kids get the material, but you're putting questions they've never seen before on the tests? Or a question that even a college graduate in math can't solve because there isn't enough information? Or they are expected to solve problems with long show-work in less than 2 minutes?

Which, BTW, they don't have access to the answers so never actually learn something from the tests.[/quote]

Failing reflects more then the teachers ability to teach. It reflects a students willingness to do the work and seek help. I doubt that kids who are completing homework, asking for help when they get questions wrong on their homwork, and meeting with teachers to better understand material are failing. They might earn a C or a B because the material is hard for them, although they might earn an A as they figure it out, but I doubt that they would fail.

Kids who are failing are either out of their depth in the class and need to be in a lower level class or, in TJs case, at a different school, or they are not making an effort. I taught. I don't like the method of teaching I am hearing about, with less lecture and more kids working together to figure out how to do the work, but I don't think kids are failing simply because of that method, at least, not in large numbers.[/quote]

I wish you could read what the teacher told me. Which is total comprehension of the material but failure for 1) right answer, not enough work 2) wrong answer, right work to the solution and sees the simple error that caused it 3) not having enough time to complete the questions (typically 2-3min allotted for each). Which, shockingly, if you have to move super fast you're going to have a problem with all 3.

So basically there are many ways to fail in TJ math that have nothing to do with comprehension. [/quote]

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