Students depend on their teachers to receive the best education they can, and having a teacher who is well educated and makes learning fun is a plus. The University of California – Irvine (2007) expresses the fact, math teachers in Asian countries offer more support for their students, and that math teachers in the United States offers less support which is needed to help students learn more. This concept is likely to be the contributing factor that as to why United States students tend to score lower in performances on international math tests (Irvine, 2007). On the job training for teachers from the Asian nations of Japan, Singapore, and Hungry, when compared the United States, received the same minimal training and mentoring (Vergano, 1996). Francis “Skip” Fennell, the president of the National Council of Teacher of Mathematics, felt that this was something the federal No Child Left Behind Act meant to fix (as cited by Vergano, 1996). Fennell pointed out that, there was no funding for certain schools or state systems, so they could not hire or even train qualified teachers (as cited by Vergano, 1996). Many United States teachers are highly qualified and many of them go back to school to get their National Boards in Education to learn even more ways of teaching their students. In a speech given by President Clinton, he told the National Council of Jewish Women that he would strive to hire more teachers, give more money to lower income schools, and make the teacher to student ratio smaller. President Clinton states that teachers have not taken the proper measures to educate the children of our future (The, A. P.,
Students depend on their teachers to receive the best education they can, and having a teacher who is well educated and makes learning fun is a plus. The University of California – Irvine (2007) expresses the fact, math teachers in Asian countries offer more support for their students, and that math teachers in the United States offers less support which is needed to help students learn more. This concept is likely to be the contributing factor that as to why United States students tend to score lower in performances on international math tests (Irvine, 2007). On the job training for teachers from the Asian nations of Japan, Singapore, and Hungry, when compared the United States, received the same minimal training and mentoring (Vergano, 1996). Francis “Skip” Fennell, the president of the National Council of Teacher of Mathematics, felt that this was something the federal No Child Left Behind Act meant to fix (as cited by Vergano, 1996). Fennell pointed out that, there was no funding for certain schools or state systems, so they could not hire or even train qualified teachers (as cited by Vergano, 1996). Many United States teachers are highly qualified and many of them go back to school to get their National Boards in Education to learn even more ways of teaching their students. In a speech given by President Clinton, he told the National Council of Jewish Women that he would strive to hire more teachers, give more money to lower income schools, and make the teacher to student ratio smaller. President Clinton states that teachers have not taken the proper measures to educate the children of our future (The, A. P.,