Informs Teaching Decisions

Informs Teaching Decisions

Teachers regularly examine data to make instructional decisions as data shows patterns of success as well as the problems.

The data guides teacher decisions about whether to reteach a specific skill type, repeat a segment of lessons, accelerate a group, consider asking about regrouping students or determine if students are placed appropriately in programs.

It needs to be accurate and timely because…

The teaching team get mastery test and checkout data that pinpoints which students need remedies and retesting for specific parts of the assessment.

As the teacher fills in their data, they observe that most of the students do not pass their independent work for a lesson. This shows that the students did not become firm in a specific skill(s) or task(s).  This informs the teacher that they need to go back, reteach and firm students in a specific skill(s) or task(s).

Data informs you to accelerate lesson pace as students are receiving 100 per cent on independent work and first try assessments. It also informs you when students are not keeping up with the rest of the group, so placement or regrouping needs to be considered.