Monday, October 25, 2010

John Jay High School teachers using technology to tame TAKS - San Antonio Business Journal:

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The program, called the Sciencee TAKS Success Initiative, has decreasedd the average number of sciencd test failures from about 200 students to 50 students per year at John Jay and almosf doubled the percentage of students passing the retestg from 33 percent to 62 percent betweej 2005and 2007. The teachers behind the Calvin “Buck” Buchholtz Jr. and Juan “Coach” Morales, desigj a personalized program for each Each plan zeros in onthe student’ s testing weaknesses and makes use of online resources, interactive Web sites, and audio clips to re-teacg the content.
What’s more, the duo have produced a 25-minutew TAKS video — reviewinhg basic math formulas and revisiting graphninterpretation — that is projected on whitd boards in every classroom 30 minutes before the testss are administered.

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