Motivation ideas

One teacher shared how she used the Achievement Charts. She said the students are really motivated when they can fill in the segments. At the end of the week this teachers takes this activity a little further by asking the students to set a goal for the number of units they want to complete the next week. This is such a cool idea.

One teachers let's the students pick a class reward when everyone in the class has leveled up.  She find that the student begin to motivate each other.  She uses a bulletin board to track their progress.

Lexia stickers can be used for a variety of activities. Many teachers have sticker charts in the rooms.  Lexia stickers could be given:

• When a student is halfway through a level
• When they Level Up
• After they complete their Skill Builders

How do you know when the auto placement activity is complete?

when the student has finished auto placement they will see a "Good Job!" message on the screen and then be logged out. If they have never used the program before, the teacher can let students know that when they see the login screen again that they are done and can stop.

What next after completing Core5

• Utilize the Skill Builders if she has not done so already 
• Utilize the Comprehension Lessons.
•  It's a heavy lift for the teacher sometime, but this student could be used to sit with others and support them to listen to the directions again...  NOT do the work or give the answers.  A Lexia Ambassador.  Like I said, it would require some work on the part of the teacher.
• Read
• Idea from Korrie. She was working with a client who wanted the students to still be on the computer after they finished Lexia.
   I talked to the school and we came up with some ideas but they really want them on the computer. I suggested using the fun facts from each level and letting the kids research what they heard from the fun fact and then write and present their information. 

How do I tell if my student was placed at the wrong level?

Q: How do I tell if my student was placed at the wrong level? 

A: One way to assess how appropriately a student has been placed is to let them work in the program for two or three weeks. The student’s Student Skills Report will show her "Accuracy" and "Rate" for the five activities in the level. If the student demonstrates “High” accuracy and a “Fast”rate for all five activities, it indicates that the student may have been placed at too low of a level. In contrast, if all five activities show accuracy and rate of "Low" and "Slow," respectively, it indicates the student was placed too high (this scenario might can occur if they get help from a well-meaning teacher or parent during the Auto Placement). In either one of these cases it would be appropriate to reset the student and have them take the Auto Placement again or manually place them into a higher/lower level. However, all prior work will be lost when a student is reset.

Another recommendation would be to try the Skill Builders with the students before making any changes. Do stress that they will need to save any current reports before re-Auto Placing the students because they will be deleted.

 short video in response to a customers question regarding placement

Instructional Support Materials Training ideas

Start with asking for some things that are going well with Lexia then ask for questions.

NOTE: this tends to be more of an advanced Data Coaching session.

Take the opportunity to review. Use Kahoot or Quizlet

Maybe first review how to access the various resources and what they are.

Have the teachers pair up and practice 

Using their data to pull the resources for small group.

Also, you can have them create folders for individual students with Skill Builders for the independent seat work center in their rotation model.

 Alexis in the Ed Team and she is working with a webinar version of this training however, I don't know about the timing of this.

Look at their data, use the Skills Report to pull a small group and then pull resources from Lexia Lessons, Connections and Instructional.Support materials to support the lessons.  

Scavenger hunt to find resources on various topics such as:

Teacher’s Manual

Reports Guide

Supplemental Comprehension Lessons

Letter Tiles

Keyword-Picture Cards

Achievement Certificates

Training on Demand Videos

Performance Perdictors

I was asked a question about performance predictors and how they work when schools are not in session for a few weeks.  Is the student penalized in these cases?

Performance Predictors are dependent on use and progress in the program, so
any time students take a break, both their usage and progress is affected. By focusing in on student usage and lessons for the whole month of January (or any month after an extended break) you'll likely see a substantial bump on February first. Our recommendation is that, for any evaluative purposes, the February first Predictor should be used as the middle-of-year progress measure.

Best Practices - Data Coaching

This document was shared after the Winter 2017 Sales Conference.

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