MY YEAR AS A TEACHER Formula for Failure A curriculum over most kids' heads + few tools to teach it = little learning Series: MY YEAR AS A TEACHER. Chapter 5/Curriculum CITY Edition

• Published in: Newsday
• Main Author: BY EMILY SACHAR
• Format: Newspaper Article
• Language: English
• Published: Long Island, N.Y Newsday LLC 01.12.1989
• Edition: Combined editions
• Subjects: Kowalski, Vikki; Sachar, Emily

Ironically, my school had an excellent, easy-to-follow textbook series for the sixth and seventh grades, and math teachers for these grades also had a supplement from the Board of Education with ideas, including games, for teaching their curriculum. The eighth grade had neither. The Board of Educati...