Welcome to Mr. Tedone's Wonderful World of Mathematics!

I have your kids in either Algebra 2 H, Pre-Calculus A or H.  Please take a minute to view my website.  Feel free to contact me at jtedone@wlps.org or 292-5841 with any questions or concerns.

Mission Statement/Vision/Behaviors

A. Mission Statement:

I believe that:

• Public education is our world’s greatest institution and I am honored to be called to serve that institution.
   
• It is my responsibility to create the conditions where all of my students can realize their full potential.

Therefore:

• I must provide them a safe environment built on mutual trust and respect, enthusiasm and curiosity.
   
• I am committed to continuous improvement and collaboration with all the stakeholders of our community.
   
• I will implement the curriculum with fidelity and observe instructional best practices.
   
• I will plan rigorous, relevant and differentiated lessons, provide feedback and create data-based interventions.

In order to:

• Empower each and every one of my students to achieve more than they believed was possible.

B. Our Class Vision: Guided by the above mission, together we will:
 

• Be engaged and motivated students working both independently and collaboratively
   
• Develop our problem solving, critical thinking, communication, and math content skills
   
• Assess our development of those skills on a growth model and actively seek interventions needed for mastery
   
• Make meaningful, personalized connections between those skills and the real world.
   
• Become 21^st century, career- and college-ready learners and confident, informed, responsible global citizens.               

C. Behaviors of the Exemplary Student: As I strive to be an exemplary teacher, so too do I expect you to be an exemplary student. The observable behaviors of an exemplary student include the following:

• Interacting with or using technology to enhance your learning related to a given lesson
   
• Conducting yourself according to agreed-upon and previously-taught expectations
   
• Engaging in effective and efficient routines and transitions
   
• Activating your prior knowledge of the content and skills relating to the learning target
   
• Demonstrating that you own the learning target
   
• Understanding and articulating the purpose or goal of what you are doing
   
• Conducting appropriately scaffolded, self-directed activities to fulfill the learning targets
   
• Producing evidence of utilizing some kind of strategy that you have been taught previously
   
• Using language and vocabulary of the content, process and strategies that you are learning
   
• Self-assessing to determine your progress towards meeting the learning target
   
• Utilizing problem solving strategies as you apply your learning to new situations and contexts
   
• Challenge and hold each other accountable to achieving the learning target
   
• Visibly represent your understanding of learning targets, enduring understandings and essential questions