Dan
Just wanted to
share my success story with you.
I just gave my
final exam to my class where I was doing
the L to J this semester. It is an on-line
final, and they are required to score 80% to
graduate from the class. (These were
guidelines dictated to me by
Cisco.)
I am happy to
report that all my students scored 80% or
higher! -- even my slackers in the
class.
After the exam,
I asked them what they thought attributed to the
class success -- they all said the weekly
quizzes. I had to laugh -- some of them
said they never scored very well on the weekly
quizzes, but it all came together on the final
exam.
Needless to
say, I am really proud of them. Thank you
so much for your insight and your help. I
certainly appreciate what you did for
me!!
Judy
(note: The CISCO final is
an on-line, internationally normed,
exam. The standards are similar to those
set by the College Board for AP courses.)
For more information on the Cisco story ,
e-mail Dan McCaulley, mccaulleyd@mail.maconaquah.k12.in.us.
2. Marty Shudak, K-8 Curriculum
Coordinator for the Council Bluffs, Iowa School
District has given permission for readers of
this newsletter to access the elementary math
quizzes Council Bluffs has prepared for teachers
in their district. These weekly quizzes
can be downloaded in either Microsoft
Word to print, or in Microsoft Power
Point to project. Much thanks to
Marty and the Council Bluffs teachers for
putting this together. Here are the
directions Marty sent:
For the quizzes, just go to www.cbcsd.org, click on the
"staff" button, then scroll down to the DDI
Section and click. Once there find the
quizzes...some are in power point and some in
hard copy. The password is "mathquizzes" no
space or quotation marks. (The password for
answers are "teachertools" ...again no spaces or
quotation marks.) If you want the
facts quizzes, the password for those are
"mathfacts".
3. It is very difficult for Americans
to not view education as a contest.
For example, in October of 2005, the results
from the National Assessment of Educational
Progress (NAEP) showed that the United States
4th and 8th graders improved in
mathematics. However, the press coverage
did not communicate this to the public.
This is demonstrated by the two attached
documents. The first is the article from
the Arizona Republic and the second is a scatter
overlay for NAEP results in Arizona.
The dots are all of the 50 states. The line
that joins the dots is to highlight
Arizona's progress. The public did
not learn that the US improved as a nation
and that Arizona was improving along with
the rest of the US.
I have made the scatter overlay for every
state. If you would like a state scatter
overlay, please send me an e-mail at Lee@LtoJConsulting.com and
request your particular state.
4. All prior newsletters and
attachments are now posted on the LtoJ
Consulting website, www.ltojconsulting.com.
Lee Jenkins, Lee@LtoJConsulting.com
