A celebration of the teaching profession, and the power of a teacher's conviction that all students can learn. This profile of East Harlem Tech/PS 72's Kay Toliver has become one of the most-widely used staff development resources in the country.
More than 10 awards, including the George Foster Peabody Award, the Gabriel Award and the Robert Townsend Social issues Award.
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Good Morning Miss Toliver, the landmark half-hour documentary about inner-city mathematics teacher Kay Toliver, has inspired tens of thousands of teachers to try out new teaching strategies based on the philosophy that all children can master mathematics. But, though it is used in many school districts in the U.S. as a valued staff development resource, its 30-minute documentary format made it infeasible for Good Morning Miss Toliver to do more than highlight some of Kay Toliver's wonderful lessons.
That's why the producer of Good Morning Miss Toliver, FASE Productions, created the Teacher Talk set. Drawn from classroom footage that was not able to be included in Good Morning Miss Toliver, this comprehensive staff development resource shows teachers exactly how to design and deliver inspiring and effective lessons that develop a thorough understanding of concepts and get students to practice their skills while having the time of their lives!
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Are you looking for ways to integrate technology into your mathematics curriculum? Get students motivated? Improve their skills?
How about a staff development program that helps teachers accomplish all of the above--in the same activity!
Then here's an answer: The National Math Trail.
On the National Math Trail, students first do "math trails" in their own communities, creating and solving math problems that relate to what they find.
The National Math Trail Resource kit contains everything that teachers need to do all of this successfully--and everything that staff developers need to plan and deliver exciting training programs based on math trails.
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Sixteen 15-to-20 minute programs that complement The Eddie Files, showing teachers step-by-step how to deliver lessons on elementary mathematics topics which excite student interest, engage their problem-solving and communication skills and develop computational and reasoning skills. Print guides include resources for turning each Kay Toliver Files program into a complete half-day professional development workshop. Endorsed by the National Association of Elementary School Principals.
Futures with Jaime Escalante (grades 9-12). The most popular instructional television series in the history of PBS. FUTURES features acclaimed math teacher Jaime Escalante (profiled in the feature film Stand and Deliver), and is intended for use with students in middle school, high school and community colleges.
Jaime Escalante is joined by celebrity guests including Bill Cosby, the late jazz great Dizzy Gillespie, and Teri Garr to bring home the message that math isn't something to be afraid of--it's something to use.