MET Project Research Paper

Imagine right at this moment you had to take a math test about what you learned in middle school, how well do you think you would do? What is so upsetting, is that many of you, probably do not feel that confident in your ability to pass that test or at least struggle completing it. For some of you, we will give you some slacks as it's been a few years or maybe even decades since middle school, but what is the point of having that education if you are not going to retain the information. It's shocking to say, that a large portion of current middle schoolers in the united states struggle to meet the standard proficiency level expected of them, because “According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress more than sixty percent of the …show more content…
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has started the Measures of Effective Teaching Project or MET Project to help teachers understand what they are doing right and how they can fix what they are doing wrong. If teachers are able to use the MET Project as a means to become better teachers, then that means that heir students will become more proficient in numeracy and the other concepts that they teach. The MET Project provides a extensive feedback for teachers from students and other teachers so they can evaluate what teaching style works (Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project). The MET Project also integrates technology into the classroom were daily classroom lesson are recorded and saved so that teachers can rewatch their own class videos for evaluation or watch other teachers to learn how others teach(Gates). The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation estimates that it will take about five billion dollars to make the MET Project a global project for all teachers around the world (Gates). If United States mathematics teachers are able to learn from other mathematics teachers around the world, then United State teachers would be able to better educate American students in mathematics, increasing their numeracy skills and proficiency. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation also provides technology to students and teacher so that teachers can have aligned instructional materials and so students have new innovative technology. Within my literature review, one of my sources talked about the integration of technology and learning numeracy. Dr. Mido Chang and his colleagues found that the use of technology games help increase the numeracy proficiency of fifth and sixth graders but not