The purpose of the Student Academic Progress Professional Practice Standard is to ensure that teachers are tracking students’ performance data and utilizing that data to evaluate their teaching and inform their instruction. The purpose of an education is to grow, thus it only makes sense to monitor the students’ academic progress throughout the year. Setting goals and working towards those goals is a great way to measure students’ progression. It is easy to become discouraged when it seems that the students are not learning quickly enough. However, keeping documentation on where the students started and how far they have come is a great method for recognizing the small victories. Although there are countless ways of exhibiting the Student Academic Progress standard, three of the most significant methods are: documenting the progress of each student throughout the year, providing evidence that achievement goals have been met, and using available performance outcome data to continually document and communicate student academic progress and develop interim learning goals.
For my 2nd grade math unit on probability, I administered a pre-test and post-test to measure academic progress. The results and my reflection are shown here.
I used Fountas and Pinnell’s LLI running records to keep track of some students’ reading progression each week as we worked on fluency.