The Exeter Township School District Curriculum Committee opened its meeting on Tuesday night with a mathematics presentation by fourth grade students from Jacksonwald and Owatin Creek Elementary Schools.
The purpose of the presentation was to showcase the effectiveness of the new Investigations Additions Strategies math program that has been adopted at Exeter School District.
The students completed math problems and explained their problem solving strategies.
Board members were also given the opportunity to complete the problems, and all were impressed by the work displayed by the students.
The goal of the new math program is to get students engaged and to have fun while learning the basic principles so they will not forget them when they need to apply them to higher level math.
Bill Cain presented the proposed 2015-2016 school year Soaring Eagle, the document that outlines curriculum and schedule changes for the coming school year.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has changed the graduation requirements for students in the class of 2017 and beyond, and Exeter School District intends to change their requirements to be consistent with state regulations.
The document will also revise course descriptions and the requirements and prerequisites for AP courses.
Finally, the district has proposed adding eight new classes for next school year. Cain assured the board the new courses will not require any staffing changes.
"We seldom have a teacher who has more than two preparations a day. All of these classes came from teachers who asked, and showed interested in these courses," Cain said in response to concerns about the teachers' work loads.
The new high school classes proposed include: 21st Century Writing, AP Economics, AP Statistics, Honors Principals of Engineering, Introduction to Band and 20th and 21st Century Popular American Music Appreciation.
The district is also considering the addition of a Core Connections 3 math course that will serve as an intermediate step to Algebra and an online AP French course.
With the addition of these courses students will have 17 different AP courses to choose from, beginning in tenth grade.
Dr. Timothy Timura also suggested the addition of an ACT or SAT preparatory course.
Incoming junior high students will also now be required to take a placement exam to determine mathematics placement.
The new Soaring Eagle will be voted upon later in the school year.
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