While not obviously different from traditional tests like the SATs — which the Report Card used at first — Dr. Glaser argued successfully that criterion tests were the more nimble tool for helping teachers adjust lessons to their students' needs.
For me, the best teachers not only master the tools of the trade, but learn to be classroom decision-makers who understand how to adjust lessons to connect to students, which means they have to be concerned with race, class, language, and culture.
Teachers can adjust lesson plans to target areas where pupils are weakest, and identify gaps in knowledge quickly and reliably.
Except for what is going on behind the scenes: From quiz scores to homework and attendance records, every detail of a student's performance at Brownsville Elementary is fed into computer databases where teachers and administrators examine the constantly unfolding record and quickly adjust lesson plans and individual teaching strategies in response.
Teachers, meanwhile, can monitor their children's vocabulary development in real-time through a secure dashboard and then adjust the lessons, pacing, and curriculum to each child's needs.
"Through the AGE Committee, UNICEF has suggested to the Education Department to send circulars to provinces that are affected by seasonal activities like feasts, coffee and vanilla season to adjust their lesson times so that children don't miss important lessons," says UNICEF Project Officer for Education, Gabriel Andandi.
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Christy Krier, the director of the Bucktown school, said that students took numerous tests throughout the year to gauge their learning and to help teachers adjust their lesson plans.
She also wondered if teachers were adding to the problem by adjusting their lessons to accommodate shorter attention spans.
Her students started out the marking period with scores ranging from 100 to 50, but by mid-February the range had fallen to 96 to 6. "Sometimes I look at this and say, 'What did I do wrong?' But I use it — just like the kids use it — as a motivator," said Ms. Williams, who has adjusted her lessons to focus more strongly on comprehension before moving on to harder material.
Gates praised alternative models for education, showing off a program for teaching algebra that actively monitored how the student was doing, what methods of teaching worked, and adjusted the lessons on the fly.
