r/mathteachers

Do you as a HS math teacher feel like other subjects are kind of let off loosely, other than English? I mean if feel like our entire school and district has been strongly rated on standardized test scores which includes math and English. If the school scores badly, that's all on the math or English teachers. This is not the on the other subject teachers but did any of you move on because of this? I feel lately it's been more about field trips, students are now gone about 15 days a year. In additional to other legitimate absences, it makes it seem like they are not in class very often and yet we are supposed to make these kids score superstar level on standardized tests. I feel like these last minute field trips or sporting events cause students to miss out and I have revamp lessons and reteach. Maybe I'm just in the wrong school or district.

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Hi everyone! I came here for advice: I’ve been in public school system overseas (horrible), so I switched to tutoring, EdTech, curriculum development and teachers training , middle and high school, and was working like that since 2018. Now I am in Massachusetts, work as a teacher and on managerial position in after school program. It pays the bills and I feel comfortable, but I hate the absence of work-life balance, and work environment - we are forced to pump the numbers and KPIs. While I see that it works for some people, but not for me: I much rather work for non profit.
So long story short, I want to switch to working as a teacher in public/private school.

I don’t want any managerial role, it simply is not my personality. I prefer less money for less stress.

I have a good head on my shoulders, I am good at math itself and at teaching it.
I looked at MTEL 65 - middle school math- and I’m pretty sure I can pass it right away.
MTEL 65- high school math- is harder for me, some topics are rusty , since math education system in the country I came from is a little different.

I’d like to start new school year 27-28 in public or private school. I am more inclined to high school: my favorite classes to teach is Algebra II, Pre-Calc. And because I can imagine there is less stress and behavioral issues in High school than in middle school. But it will take me time and work on re-learning some topics.

Or I can start with middle school. But man, those 7 graders….

If you had a choice, what would you do?

TL;DR choose teaching math in middle school, or in high school, if the main focus is less stress?

Thank you !

My school currently uses Math in Focus (Singapore Math) but it really doesn't help the students, or work with common core standards that our school uses.

The board basically saw Singapore in the title and dove straight in. After some lobbying, they are giving us the opportunity to recommend a new curriculum for k-7. I'm doing some research and currently my top contender is I-ready.

Some things to consider, it's an international school so needs to be ELL friendly. While we do use technology, we want to keep most things off devices.

Any advice would be appreciated!

Question to any math teacher using a Chromebook for their own device: what do you do about equation editors?

Background: We are a Google district and I'm not against it, however, we have been using Microsoft products since before I've been teaching in the district. We have many tests, worksheets and activities made in word docs as the equation editor is far superior to Google doc equation editor. Google docs does not easily allow you to type matrices or vectors and has other issues with formatting.

We just found out that they are switching is all to use Chromebooks without Microsoft products and don't know how we will read our .docx files with equations as when you open it as a Google doc, it doesn't preserve formatting.

Any advice? Our IT department doesn't seem to understand our issues and basically are telling us to deal with it. If you have any tricks or add ons to Google docs, please share!