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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]

I can believe that as well. The nice thing is you can have parent teacher conferences or answer a parent's email telling them what their child has not turned in or completed or reviewed the corrections on and how that is contributing to their grade. I taught at the University level and could not share that information. Parents were not happy that I would not tell them why their child flunked, normally poor attendance, not completing work, and not making allowed corrections and were willing to believe their adult student that I just didn't like them.

I have heard from students who are doing well in classes that they are expected to learn the material on their own or working in groups at school to teach the material and that their teachers are not lecturing. I have family members who completed college with education degrees who were taught that this style of learning is the best way to teach, less lecture and just answering questions. I know that it is being used in many classrooms. I know kids getting A's who hate this method because they feel like they are tutoring their classmates because their teachers won't lecture. As someone who needed the lecture to really absorb the material, I would struggle with this style of teaching. It would be discouraging.

I know that there is a group of students who will fail to do their work and then complain no matter how you approach classes. I suspect that TJ jas enough smart kids who are used to not having to work in class to do well that TJ is a shock tot heir system. I also think that teachers using the above teaching paradigm are doing their students a huge disservice. 
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Exactly this.  There are some excellent teachers at TJ.  And then there's the math department.  Instead of getting frustrated at the students for doing badly, they could reevaluate their teaching.  But they don't.

I had excellent math teachers in high school, Calc BC was one of my favorite classes.  [b]It's too bad that no one at TJ will ever say the same. [/b][/quote]

Stop generalizing experience of a handful of students. I hear all the time from TJ students how much they enjoy their math class. Parents badmouth the whole department because of what they hear from their kid at the dinner table and from few unhappy parents in this website.[/quote]

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