Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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Originally my goal was to find a tool that would make DIBELing my students easy, accessible, and meaningful. For those of you not familiar with DIBELS, it is a new program in which you test your students throughout the year in fluency, phonemic awareness and much more. The state requires testing three times during the year and recommends progress monitoring between these three. Fortunately, my TA and I have come up with a comprehensive plan/schedule for tracking students progress and working with them daily in small groups in order for them to master each category. To accomplish this though, you must be on the Internet at least weekly. If you have been in a classroom of 24 1st graders, you would know the difficulty in fitting testing into a 40 minute block when the TA is there, and especially on your own at the teachers desk while they are working independently. Having said that, a laptop would ensure my mobility to make DIBELing a lot more accessible to both me and my students.
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Originally my goal was to find a tool that would make DIBELing my students easy, accessible, and meaningful. For those of you not familiar with DIBELS, it is a new program in which you test your students throughout the year in fluency, phonemic awareness and much more. The state requires testing three times during the year and recommends progress monitoring between these three. Fortunately, my TA and I have come up with a comprehensive plan/schedule for tracking students progress and working with them daily in small groups in order for them to master each category. To accomplish this though, you must be on the Internet at least weekly. If you have been in a classroom of 24 1st graders, you would know the difficulty in fitting testing into a 40 minute block when the TA is there, and especially on your own at the teachers desk while they are working independently. Having said that, a laptop would ensure my mobility to make DIBELing a lot more accessible to both me and my students.