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Adaptive Lessons

Adaptive Lessons. The A+nywhere Learning System™. Welcome. Hello, I’m Hootie and I’m here to guide you through the steps to create an adaptive lesson using the A+nywhere Learning System™ (A+, for short). Why Adaptive Lessons?.

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Adaptive Lessons

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  1. Adaptive Lessons The A+nywhere Learning System™

  2. Welcome Hello, I’m Hootie and I’m here to guide you through the steps to create an adaptive lesson using the A+nywhere Learning System™ (A+, for short).

  3. Why Adaptive Lessons? Adaptive lessons in the A+ program are designed to help you, as the teacher, provide individualized, targeted instruction to your students who are in need of intervention.

  4. How Does A+ Work? The A+ system provides students a pre-test based on a set of TEKS or TAKS objectives you choose. A+ writes the pre-test for you! As the student takes the pre-test, A+ determines the specific TEKS for which the student needs instruction.

  5. How Does A+ Work? Once A+ diagnoses the students’ areas of weakness, the system constructs a series of short modules that provide additional instruction as well as assess the students’ mastery of the instruction.

  6. What Will You Be Doing Today? You and I will be looking at and practicing the 7 basic steps to creating an adaptive lesson in the A+ system.

  7. What Will You Be Doing Today? The steps (or tasks) are: • Identify instructional needs of students • Log onto A+ • Open Class in which the lesson is to be created • Create new A+ List • Add appropriate standards to list • Create Adaptive Assessment • Exit System

  8. How Do You Get Started? Like any great teacher, you are probably already aware of one or two students who are struggling with a particular concept.

  9. How Do You Get Started? You will need to dig a little deeper into the assessment information available for those students in order to decide what additional instruction will help them the most.

  10. Where Will You Find That Information? You already have most of the information you will need. Take a look at your grade book. Those homework, project and test scores tell you a great deal.

  11. Where Will You Find That Information? You’ve also been given a copy of your students’ individual TAKS scores from last year. You should also have a copy of the most current Benchmark test results.

  12. Where Will You Find That Information? But don’t just rely on formal assessments. Informal assessments are just as valuable.

  13. Where Will You Find That Information? You are with your students every day. You know who does and doesn’t participate in class. You probably have heard the phrase “I don’t get it” occasionally. Those are valuable observations.

  14. You have the information, what’s next? Here’s where you sit down with all of the information along with a copy of your lesson plans and the TEKS for the subject.

  15. You have the information, what’s next? Find what lessons, or TAKS objectives the student had difficulty mastering. Determine which TEKS were a part of that lesson or TAKS objective and write them down.

  16. Where Do You Go From Here? You’ve done the preparation work needed in order to create the A+ adaptive assessment. But, before we move on to Task 2 (yep, that was Task 1), let’s take some time to answer a couple of questions to be sure you’re A-OK with Task 1.

  17. Question #1 • Which of the following can be used to determine the instructional needs of your students? • TAKS benchmark results • Teacher-made tests • Projects/portfolios • All of the above

  18. Question #1 The Correct Answer is d) all of the above Formal assessments are great qualitative data to be used to help determine a students’ instructional needs.

  19. Question #2 • True or False Informal assessments should not be considered when determining the instructional needs of students.

  20. Question #2 The Correct Answer is FALSE Informal assessments are an integral part of determining a students’ instructional needs.

  21. Okay, you’ve completed Task 1. Now on to Task 2 Log on to A+

  22. Okay, you’ve completed Task 1. Before we go on to Task 2, there are a few “techno terms” you need to be familiar with to help you complete the unit.

  23. Cursor – the little arrow that follows your mouse movements. Double click – Depress the left mouse button twice. Left click – Depress the left mouse button Right click – Depress the right mouse button Mouseover – Place the cursor over a specific area or selection

  24. ONWARD TO TASK 2!!!!

  25. It’s a little red “A+” Find the A+ Logo on your desktop and double click on it.

  26. Your Log-On Name is your first initial and last name all “scrunched” together Type in your Log-On Name

  27. Your password is the last 4 digits of your Social Security Number Type in your Password

  28. Left click on “Log Me On”.

  29. The management screen appears

  30. We’ve enlarged the screens from this point forward so you can see them better!

  31. Time for some questions Now what kind of teacher would I be if I didn’t ask YOU some questions? Ready? Let’s Go!

  32. Question #3 • Your password consists of • Your employee ID • The last 4 digits of your SSN • Your middle name • None of the Above

  33. Question #3 The Correct Answer is b) The last 4 digits of your SSN

  34. Question #4 • True or False Your Log-On Name consists of your first initial and last name all “scrunched” together.

  35. Question #4 The Correct Answer is TRUE Informal assessments are an integral part of determining a students’ instructional needs.

  36. Okay, you’ve completed Task 2. Now on to Task 3 Open Class in which the lesson is to be created

  37. Left click on the Clipboard icon at the top of the screen.

  38. The Assignment Management Window appears.

  39. Click on the circle (also known as a "key) to the left of “Covington ISD”

  40. If the class you need to use is not on the list, email the A+ Administrator and request for it to be added. A list of all of your A+ classes appears.

  41. Left click on the circle (also known as a "key) to the left of the class in which you want to create the adaptive lesson.

  42. The Class “opens” and you see the “Default Lesson Plan” folder. Please note: Do not touch the “DO NOT USE” folder.

  43. Another quick self-check! Let’s see if you have the basics of opening a class. Ready? Let’s Go!

  44. Question #5 • Which icon is used to access the Assignment Management” page and the class list? • Group of four faces • Clipboard • Hand writing on a folder • Papers spilling out of a folder

  45. Question #5 The Correct Answer is b) Clipboard The clipboard icon is the only icon used to manage your lessons in A+.

  46. Question #6 • On what do you click to open the class? • The “open class” button • The “stop” button • The “key” to the left of the class name • All of the above

  47. Question #6 The Correct Answer is c) The “key” to the left of the class name. The circle to the left of the class name is also called a “key”. From now on, we will call those little circles “keys”.

  48. Okay, you’ve completed Task 3. Now on to Task 4 Create new A+ list.

  49. Right click on “Default Lesson Plan” and a selection list appears. The screen also changes to the “Usage Settings” screen.

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