Monitoring my GAME Plan Progess

Our grade level meets every Wednesday afternoon to talk about ways to strengthen our teaching and enhance our students learning.  We spent some time this past week discussing ways that we can incorrporate more technology into our classrooms.  We all agreed that our students need to be taking more assessments on their student responders to give us immediate feedback on their content knowledge.  By doing this, we will know if the majority of the students understand what they have been taught as well as which students need more help in that given content area.  We decided to begin using their responders to take their weekly Theme Skills Test both on paper and responders to make sure they are transfering their answers correctly.  The students did an outstanding job this past week in doing so.  I need to allow for more time when giving these tests until the students become more familiar with the process.  I quickly learned that many of the students had a high level of understanding on Noting Details in a story.  The results were immediate so I utilized my parent volunteer that same day to work with the small group of students that did not do well on the assessment.  After the small group instruction, I felt confident that all of my students understood how to pick out details in a story.  I am now motivated to continue this form of assessment in more subject areas with my students.  I will continue to have a mini lesson planned for parent volunteers to help the students that struggle on the given content.