Math Rocks!

Candidate documents and reports the progress of students in achieving goals and district standards. 

I keep watch of how my students are achieving to the district and state standards in a variety of ways.  The first is looking at the OAKS score of my students.  I keep a folder of the previous years score and current years scores.  This information is put onto sticky notes and placed into 4 categories, exceeds, meets, nearly meets, and does not meet.  By doing this I can open a folder and establish trends in OAKS performance.  This documentation helps me as a teacher to discover if there are any students with serious issues like test anxiety and even not knowing how to use the OAKS program so I can do some intervention.

Next, all of my units have pretests, quizzes, and post-tests.  By doing this I am able to look where each student was, where they are, and where they need to be.  I am able to target the students that need reteaching as well as track the improvement or lack of improvement that individual students.  If I see that a student is consistently not improving then I have conversations with the student away from the general population trying to identify what is going on.  Some issues that come up are that the student is learning disabled, I am talking to fast for them to understand, that they are having problems at home or with friends, and so on.  Keeping records on the pre and post tests are also good for when you are talking with parents and showing them how well or not so well their child is doing.  I keep track of these by the spreadsheet that our grade book creates. Posttest unit 5 Pretest unit 4 Quiz unit 3

 The final way that I document the progress of students is through the district power standards.  The district has a set of standards that each student needs to reach at each grade level.  I keep a table of certain problems in the homework and quizzes and the students name.  As I have a student answer these questions either verbally, with another student, or on paper I check off their name and the question that shows proficiency in the particular standard.  This helps the teacher next year because this teacher will see what the students know and what they struggle with.  It also helps me in designing my instruction, if I have a lot of students not understanding the information I figure out other ways to reteach the information.  If the students are grasping the concepts well, I move on.