Participants 13
The Teacher is Unable to Use Data to Make Informed Decisions to Respond to Student Learning
Kimberly December 1, 2023
The Teacher is Unable to Use Data to Make Informed Decisions to Respond to Student Learning
Impact
When teachers do not assign independent work after a lesson or exercise is taught the teacher cannot see what students can do on their own, and they do not find out what students have mastered. If teachers do not monitor, they are unable to stop independent work as soon as they see multiple students making the same error and reteach. When teachers do not check independent work, they are unable to use the information to teach their current or upcoming lessons for students to meet mastery to make standard growth and potentially catch up.
What Happens
The Problem is Compounded
Students are not retaught content or skills where mastery has not been met.
Students do not get another chance to show their mastery of the content or skills. Students are not able to have independent work checked during monitoring. The teacher does not have enough information to know where students may be struggling so that they can provide more targeted instruction before completing independent work or in upcoming lessons. When teachers do not want to manage the process of workchecks they check independent work themselves which is less effective. It leads to no fixups and delays in feedback to students and takes student responsibility out of the process.