Strategies and Tips Maxine McCormick MH/Contemporary

1. Create a System for Prescribing Individual Needs. 2. Build Vocabulary 3. Analyze Class Prior Knowledge/Needs 4. Use Materials Appropriate to Assessment 5. Practice – Practice - Practice

 Use the pre or post tests in CC Basics to help prescribe individual needs  Pre-test is 25 questions long / post-test is 50 questions. Use the one that works best for your program  Correlation becomes the student individual guide  Compare the results across the entire class and determine which areas need group lessons and which areas need small group instruction  Tip – 96% chance of completing project with a system verses 4% without – Use 20/80 Rule

 Vocabulary has 3 Tiers  Tier 2 – Formal language is on most standardized assessments and used in the workplace.  App – for 99cents McGraw-Hill Words to Learn By – 300 words – 3 levels – starts 4-5 grade  Tier 3 – Academic Words – Ex. Gravitational – Important for building knowledge especially in Science and Social Studies  Tip- Brain learns in chunks of 5-7 bits of information

 Take the Correlation sheets of all students and breakdown which skills are missed by most of the students – This becomes your daily group instruction  Determine which small groups of students are missing similar skills and design small group activities  Each student has their own individual plan  Use your Instructor’s Resource Binder for planning each activity. ELL activities and Extension Activities are included

 NEW – Build upon the  Common Core Standards  College and Career Readiness Standards  21 st Century Skills  Webb’s DOK  Evidence Based Reading (Alphabetics, Vocabulary, Comprehension, Fluency)  Print – Digital – Can be used as blended or individually  Full Curriculum with Teacher Resource Guide  Digital allows – student pace or full teacher led mode  Tip – Use a variety of resources to match student learning styles

 Before anyone can practice – there needs to be instruction and the building of student knowledge  Begins with Teacher Resources – Large Group – Small Group – Individual  Lesson Review  Chapter Review  Post Test  Blend your Learning – Print and Digital  LearnSmart Test Prep – Mini Lesson – Adaptive Format  Count 5 Resources for Practice before taking the TASC Readiness Assessment – Basics – Achieve Print – TASC Ex Books- Achieve Online – Achieve LearnSmart

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