Does anyone have any tips on tracking all of the common core standards for each individual student in class? (When I used to teach SPED I got the impression that some of my general ed peers were just estimating scores and not using any actual data for a few of the standards. I imagine it can be overwhelming when you have so many students in gen ed but surely someone has come up with some ways to make the process easier and more efficient?)
There are several ways to track benchmarks for the students. However, some front end work may need to be done.
1. Check your state standards. In Florida, we use the BEST standards for ELA and Math.
2.. Create a spread sheet with the standards. This way you can have it for future reference.
3. Review your curriculum. Curriculum is a resource so it will not have all the benchmarks. Not to mention publishers do a word search and say a topic may meet the benchmark but it doesn’t.
3. You can have a portfolio for each student with the assessments gathered for evidence.
4. Some curriculum coaches may have already created these for you.
We use student data to inform our teaching. We gather data through progress monitoring, formal and informal assessments, observations, and file reviews. All this data helps to inform our practices and help us to answer the questions:
1) what are our students’ current strengths and barriers (weaknesses)
2) how will we know when they have mastered a skill and
3) how will we respond if the student is not making progress toward a skill?
Here is an article about ways that data can inform our instruction: https://www.edutopia.org/blog/using-student-data-inform-teaching-rebecca-alber and
another article about how to share data effectively: https://globalfrp.org/content/download/102/695/file/7-DataSharingTipSheets-HarvardFamilyResearchProject%20(2).pdf
