1. Learning Style Inventory
2. Begin review the first day. I do startups daily (quiz grade once a month) so I will use the state test problems as the daily starter.
3. Tutoring before school, during school, after school, Saturdays - whatever you can get the kids to attend and can fund. The person suggesting this had grants to pay for during school and Saturdays.
4. Pre-tests, differentiation, teacher collaboration. (I am collaborating by blogging and emailing).
5, Intensive review for the state test the 2 weeks before the test.
6. Teaching students how to take a test.
7. Using a different approach. I intend to use Discovering Algebra and focusing on what I consider to be the 2 main concepts: solving equations and graphing.
8. Teaching for mastery - either continuing to offer them retests as long as they redo the work or offering to bump the grade to a 90, 95, or 100 if they can earn an 85 (keeping them from settling for the just-passing score, which dooms them when they fail something. I don't know how to approach the brass with this but I can see that it might work.
OK - other suggestions?
Dreaming in Russian
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