Student Academic Progress

Student achievement is greatly influenced by teachers. Every student has differing levels of abilities that teachers must recognize. Teachers are responsible for helping students to achieve their best. Tracking a student’s growth in content areas not only helps the teacher plan, it allows the student to see their own abilities. Teachers should adapt lessons to the abilities of their students, adhere to standards, and constantly monitor a student’s progress.

 

 

Assessments

Students completed exit slips to assess their knowledge of plant anatomy.

Assessing students, both formally and informally, can help the teacher gauge student academic progress. Exit slips are an excellent way to determine if students have understood a concept. In my

Plickers is an excellent resource to quickly assess what students have learned. The unique design of each card allows the teacher to see true student responses without revealing answers to other students. 

Running Records 

An example of a running record

Running records are one way to track and monitor student progress in reading. During student teaching, I would conduct a running record with one student from each group every day. This allowed me to analyze student fluency and comprehension, and to compare data to previous data.

Tracking Student Growth

Student growth from pre and post assessments

Pretest and posttest data gives the teacher as well as the student a visual representation of growth. This chart shows the increases in student scores on an assessment and the increase in class performance.

For further discussion, please see my paper on Professional Practice Standard: Student Academic Progress

Contact Information:

Emily Anderson Wooldridge

eca2kc@virginia.edu

540-494-0879