A fourth-grade teacher at Waterville’s Albert S. Hall School will be one of 85 math and science teachers from across the United States to receive the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.
Category: Instruction
Freeport teacher uses laptops to teach deeper
Maine Learning Technology Initiative allows algebra teacher to develop curriculum without textbooks.
FREEPORT — Alex Briasco-Brin has never taught using a textbook.
Instead, the Freeport Middle School algebra teacher has created a variety of applications for his students using the Apple MacBooks they all receive as part of the Maine Learning Technology Initiative.
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Massabesic Middle adjusts to standards-based model
Standards-based education allows Massabesic Middle School students control over the way they learn and how fast they do it.
EAST WATERBORO — The seventh-grade students at Massabesic Middle School are busy learning about revolutions. The topic has one definition in social studies class, another meaning in science, and another in English.
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Houlton creates culture of reading, high expectations
Houlton Elementary School’s Reading First grant has helped the school transform into a community with high expectations for every student.
HOULTON — Students are surrounded by literacy the moment they enter Houlton Elementary School. They have no choice.
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There’s plenty to learn from Sumner
Landing on the School Improvement Grant eligibility list can be difficult news to accept. It can also be an important opportunity.
Ten communities across Maine this week are digesting the news that their local schools have landed on a list of 10 schools eligible for federal improvement grants.
This can undoubtedly be difficult news to accept, but it’s important not to dwell so much on how a school landed on the improvement list. It’s more important to focus on the future.
A meaningful change
Shifting Maine to the Common Core state standards is the right change to make for our children. And it’s a change that will last.
When you bring up academic standards with a group of Maine teachers, one of the most common requests you’ll get is a simple one: pick a set of standards and stick with them.
English teachers focus on technology
Annual gathering features presentations by Maine teachers for Maine teachers.
English teachers can use blogs, poetry slams and graphic novels to craft engaging lessons that appeal to students who don’t learn best by reading books and writing papers.
A teacher in the southern Maine town of Sanford can teach Advanced Placement English to students located almost 400 miles to his north, in the town of St. Agatha.
Math teachers glimpse new standards
Conference offers instructors a preview of newly produced curriculum materials that align with the Common Core.
A South Portland High School math teacher described his class’ experience building a boat to drive home math lessons.
A Lisbon Community School teacher discussed how she uses picture books with her young students to help them visualize mathematical concepts.
Turner school works on data-driven teaching
Teachers dig into data to improve teaching and learning.
TURNER — Teachers at Turner Primary School are trying to figure out how they can best use data to improve the instruction they offer their 300 students in pre-kindergarten through third grade.
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Waterville Teacher Finalist for National Award
Laurette Darling of Albert Hall School could win Presidential Award for her science teaching
AUGUSTA – Laurette Darling, a fourth grade teacher at the Albert Hall School in Waterville, has been named a science finalist for the 2010 Presidential Award for Excellence for Mathematics and Science Teaching. If chosen as a winner, Darling will go to Washington, D.C. next year to be recognized.
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