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What's in it for teachers and students? SAGE Summative testing is coming in a few months. The sooner your students are trained on the testing tools, the better! The more prepared the students are to use the tools, the more able they are to focus on the CORE standards tested. Who does what? Third grade has 3 tests and forth - sixth have 4. I will co-train your class the first 2. Teachers are responsible in training their class the remaining tests. It can be done in the lab, or demonstrated in your classroom on the projector. When will Mrs. Vance help? Here is a file with all of the teacher's schedules. Let me know if something doesn't work with your schedule. SAGE Training Tests - Teachers' Schedules Sandburg SAGE Training Tests - Teachers' Schedule Mill Creek How? This year's SAGE Summative training platform looks slightly different. Let's make sure your ready for training. Below is a new help document to guide you through it. Also, here is a video on How to Proctor a SAGE Training Test. What about ST Math Training? (Sandburg Elementary Only) Yes, we are also implementing ST Math at the same time. See this ST Math Training Schedule to sign up for a time that works for you. If none of these times work, feel free to email me and we'll work something out.
What is Front Row Ed?
Front Row Ed is a free math website for teachers. What's in it for the teachers? It's adaptable. Students receive content based on their level. Teachers aren't the one making the decisions, the website does all the work. All teachers have to do it say what topic the class is going to for the day. What's in it for students? Students receive instruction that is on their level. They have manipulatives, pictures, and drawings to construct their answers. Low readers? The text-to-speech feature allows students to hear the questions. They receive coins and get to competitively see how they are doing compared to others in the class - live. How?
Teacher Side
https://www.frontrowed.com/
Student Side
https://student.frontrowed.com/#login Once I learned how to Skype in the classroom, I got very excited! I scheduled many classes to meet other classes and museums around the world. Students were so excited to see other students from far away and had many questions for them. The BYU Bean museum sparked many questions as students saw live animals through the screen and talked with the presenter. On this blog I want to help connect you to others who are wanting to do the same things. Global Connection This video is an inspirational video on how and why we should connect globally.
Mystery Skype
A Mystery Skype is where two classrooms meet via Skype (or Google Hangout) and try to figure where the other is from. Each class takes turns asking yes or no questions. Which class will figure it out first? It's a great way for younger students to use words like, east, west, boarder, ocean etc.
Mystery Skype with Roles
Some classrooms run their mystery skype more structured than others. See this link for ideas on roles students can have. 50 Ways to use Skype in the Classroom_ There are tons of other ways to use Skype in the classroom. See this link for other creative ideas. How to find the connections: 1. Google Communities: these are Google+ groups, so you will need to be logged in first
Today's training is on two great websites to help enrich your classroom.
1. Explore.org Have you wanted to see a real animal that doesn't live in Utah? Or would you like to see what animals do when they don't think anyone is watching? Explore.org is a website that provides live viewing of animals in their actual habitats. On the home page you can click the left/right arrow to browse through some animals to see, or you can search with a keyword at the top of the page. 2. Wonderopolis.org Have you ever wondered...? Wonderopolis is a website full of content. There are over 1,000 topics and they have been requested by their own users. If there is a topic your students "Wonder" about, then can request a page to be written on this website. Each "Wonder" has: 1. Text to read 2. A button to listen to the reading 3. Vocabulary words and definitions 4. Pictures 5. Introductory questions 6. Wonderopolis word challenge 7. A challenge to go beyond learning 8. A fun project Teachers, Granite Benchmarks are the formative tests that we need to administer to show progress and guide instruction throughout the year. Whenever students take this test, the teachers have to login first to "assign" the test to them. Below are the instruction on how to do that. Step 3 goes into depth if it's your first time logging in. Setting up your password takes a few more steps. If you've already done that, simply login and move on to step 4. Go Math is a great program for students and teachers because of the many resources it provides. The only problem is that it doesn't automatically assign what students need like Successmaker or Frontrowed.com. The more effort the teacher puts into the program, the more success students will experience. Did you know that you can assign a specific manipulative or activity to your class that they need for a specific lesson? For example, if you are teaching base 10 concepts, there is a tool with base 10 blocks, with a standard form conversion for simple transfer. Not sure what tools your students will need for lessons to come? Have no fear! If you follow the instructions below, it will show you how to find the lesson, and all tools and activities that will enrich your lesson. Don't have time every day to set this up? No problem! You can set up what students will need in advance. When you "assign" the activity or tool, you choose the dates you want them available. But how can teachers predict exactly what lesson will be taught on each day? I know that teachers need flexibility. Some lessons take more or less days than planned. Here's a suggestion that might help. Pick a month or two where you think an entire chapter will be taught. Assign all of the activities and tools to your students in that chapter for that entire time. That way students and teachers can review or go ahead as needed. Also, there aren't different tools and activities for every single lesson. So their "library" of resources won't be hard to look through. Teachers, It's that time to start training students on the SAGE testing platform. I know that it seems confusing when teachers do one step, and then students do another. I will be helping your class to practice two out of the four types of tests. Each time it's the same process. For further assistance, please refer to this help document below.
Teachers,
Like the writing test, there are features of the Science and Math tests that are NOT intuitive. Let’s get training your kids on the SAGE tech tools ASAP. It takes 2 sessions to do 1 training test. Mrs. Hayes’ class has already started, doing one per week, and it’s been great! I can do the first ½ with your class, while you do the second since I’m not always here if you’d like. Let me know if you plan on training your students yourself. 1 month left! Do not plan on doing training tests with me the week before testing. The lab will be busy with the closing of GQBs and AAPPL testing. The laptop lab is slowly coming back into use, for when the computer lab is occupied. About 5 laptops are working again each day that I’m here working on them. I’ll keep you posted. Below are the instructions for how to the the SAGE training test with your class. Good luck! :) The scratch paper students use:
Should be provided from the lab, not the classroom. · Nonexample: bringing in a paper from the classroom that is folded as a graphic organizer. Should stay in the lab while the testing window is open and will be shredded. · Nonexample: Secure items (scratch paper or secure test question content) shown to the public. If you have any questions, review the Ethics PowerPoint or ask the principal or me. |
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