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Response to student discuss questions from topic 12 DQ1 with 150 words Response to the students by saying hello and using students’ name.
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Question: Topic 12 DQ 1
Data collection is critical in monitoring a student’s progress. What approach does your cooperating teacher/mentor use at their site to help keep track of progress monitoring? In addition, how does your cooperating teacher/mentor communicate progress reports to parents/guardians? Would you use this approach, or another method? Explain.
Danessa De
When talking to my mentor teacher, she prints out the accommodations for the general education teacher and a section of notes/strategies to implement for better success. She will check in with them once a week to see how things are going and answer any questions. However, the whole 7th-grade math/science team plans together and uses Go Formative as one of their main ways to track student progress. Each student has their own file where you can see their progress and how they are doing during specific units. She also keeps the student’s I Ready test scores and any other state/district testing together and will compare previous test scores to help track and monitor student progress. She emails quarterly progress notes to guardians. Some parents request to have an informal meeting during this time to get more clarification.
I will use similar progress monitoring in my own practice. I want to create a folder for each student on my caseload with their IEP goals, accommodations, and minutes they are supposed to receive. I will divide the folder into 4 quarter sections, and this is where I will have a printout of progress notes given to me by various teachers, work samples, and test scores. This will help keep me organized and give me something to look back on when writing progress notes.
Danessa
Teresa Turner
Track Progress Monitoring
My mentor teacher utilizes a progress monitoring binder. The binder includes the student’s IEP goals and data sheets for each goal. The data sheets include the objectives of the overall goal. The teacher compiles data every 2 weeks on the student’s progress with the goals. Our school district uses a computer-based program called Fastbridge that assesses students’ skills in math and reading. All the data collected from Fastbridge can be downloaded into a progress report.
Communicate Progress to Parents/Guardians
My mentor teacher provides parents with a quarterly progress monitoring report that goes along with the students’ report cards. During the semester, the teacher will contact the parent if there are any changes in the student’s progress with his/her IEP goals. In my classroom, we send home a daily student progress notes on what the student is working on in math, reading, and specials for the day. This helps our parents stay up to date on what their children are learning in the classroom.
What Approach Would I Use?
I like what my mentor teacher uses with her students and parents. I appreciate that each student has an IEP progress monitoring binder which keeps things organized and readily available. During parent-teacher conferences, my mentor teacher shares the information with the parents along with tests and assignments of the student. I plan to use these methods in my classroom. The one thing I would like to develop is an easy format to report my students’ progress monitoring. I want to make this easy for the student and parents to understand. Since I am a visual person, I will try to use graphs and bullet points to explain the child’s progress.
Kevin
In talking to my mentor teacher on progress monitoring /data collection for student’s progress, she talked about paying attention to a student’s specific IEP goals. Looking at the test scores, classroom observations, and ensuring that everything is organized. Either tracking a student’s progress on paper or digitally. Keeping student’s iReady reading scores, essay writing, daily journal entries, and unit test/quiz scores. Progress reports are through Skyward system and IEP progress report is through IEP online. Everything is digital unless the parents request a physical copy of the progress report. Using these approaches, it helps her with ensuring that each student is up to date with their goals and lets her know if something is wrong or if the student is struggling with reaching their goal. All of what she talked about , I will use it too because it will give me knowledge on how well the student is doing and if there’s any problem with any areas I will know about it and adjust accordingly. I believe the most important thing is having everything organized and easy to keep track of for each of the things I want to monitor the student in. I think keeping track of student’s work and test scores digitally will be easy to monitor and others will be on paper that will be easy to get and go over with.
Kevin
