Contract start date: August 1, 2024
Middle School Math Teacher SY 24-25
PELSB Licensed
- Communicating with students in an understandable, effective way about daily lessons and instructions
- Establishing clear learning objectives and developing these with their students
- Collaborating with a school administration in enforcing rules of behavior, class participation, and conduct for students
- Developing flexible, effective teaching tools and methods to help students learn mathematics
- Creating and assigning learning projects, essays, tests, quizzes and homework for students, then grading their performance accurately on these assignments
- Working with students individually if they need extra help and support in their math coursework
Grade 5:
Fifth-grade instructional teams should be focused on three, critical areas:
- Addition and subtraction of fractions
- Integrating decimal fractions into the place value system
- Whole number and decimal operations
Grade 6:
Math teachers teaching 6th grade typically focus their instructional time on four, critical areas, including:
- Ratio and rate to whole number multiplication and division;
- Division of fractions
- Writing, interpreting, and using expressions and equations
- Developing an understanding of statistical thinking
Grade 7:
Math teachers with students in the 7th grade should be focused on:
- Operations with rational numbers
- Proportional relationships
- Working with expressions and linear equations
- Problems involving scale drawings and geometric constructions
- Working with two- and three-dimensional shapes to solve problems involving surface area, area, and volume
Grade 8:
Math teachers with 8th grade students should focus on three, critical areas, including:
- Formulating and reasoning with expressions and equations
- The concept of function and using functions to describe quantitative relationships, two- and three-dimensional space, and figures; and then analyzing them using angle, distance, congruence, and similarity
- Understanding and applying the Pythagorean Theorem