Module 4
Using Classroom Data to Monitor Student Progress
Workshop 1:
Communicating Purpose and Expectations
Practice Activities:
Communicate expectations to staff for how to monitor
Use teacher observations to reinforce
Performance Activities:
Communicate expectations for monitoring student progress
Workshop 2:
Developing a Monitoring Plan
Practice Activities:
Identify data to be used in monitoring
Create data collection templates for monitoring student progress
Examine the use of grades for monitoring
Monitor the plan
Performance Activities:
Develop and present a monitoring plan to staff
Portfolio Activities:
Memo or slide/transparency presentation
Data collection template
Workshop 3:
Examining Your Monitoring Data
Practice Activities:
Plan for data dialogues
Find time for data dialogues
Lead data dialogues
Performance Activities:
Communicate expectations for data dialogues
Workshop 4:
Examining Student Work
Practice Activities:
Create an expectation
Plan an activity for examining student work
Lead the process of examining student work
Performance Activities:
Write a reflection of lessons learned from an examination of student work
Workshop 5:
Using Data to Inform Instruction and Staff Development
Practice Activities:
Identify strategies to use data to inform instruction
Identify strategies to promote the use of data to inform instruction
Identify strategies to inform staff development
Examine student work to inform instruction
Performance Activities:
Design a staff meeting activity that promotes the use of data to inform instruction
Workshop 6:
Examining Classroom Assignments and Assessments
Practice Activities:
Examine assessments
Examine assignments
Performance Activities:
Design a staff meeting activity that examines classroom assessments
Workshop 7:
Creating Assessments and Scoring Tools
Practice Activities:
Use state rubrics and scoring tools
Develop assessments and scoring tools
Score sample student responses
Identify staff training needs
Design staff development activities
Performance Activities:
Design a staff meeting activity to score student responses using a rubric
Workshop 8:
Graphing and Analyzing Classroom Data
Practice Activities:
Create a grade book
Graph classroom data
Analyze classroom data
Performance Activities:
Graph and analyze classroom data
Workshop 9:
Creating Intervention Plans
Practice Activities:
Identifying classroom interventions
Identifying extra time interventions
Identifying program interventions
Evaluate intervention
Performance Activities:
Design an evaluation of an intervention