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bkingery
Progress Monitoring
Feb 19 2007, 4:26 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 19 2007, 4:26 PM EST
In moving students to become 21st century learners, some form of progress monitoring is essential. Progress monitoring is different than benchmarking and should be treated as such in the classroom and school. Benchmarking is for all students generally 3 times per year to make sure all students are on track to be successful readers. Progress monitoring occurs every 2-4 weeks for those students who are not on benchmark OR who may exhibit a tendency to drop below benchmark. The purpose of progress monitoring is to provide "just in time instruction and make instructional adjustments" for students.

The structure of progress monitoring at first can appear overwhelming for the classroom teacher and SHOULD NOT be the sole responsibility of the Title I teacher. It should be a shared, collaborative effort of classroom teacher and Title I teacher. My advice is to make a committment to understand progress monitoring, implement administering progreess monitoring in an incremental, workable way for the school and develop a mechanism to study progress monitoring results for instrucitonal purposes.

Thanks for asking me to be a part of this discussion forum. As I am very busy if there is anything in particular you want me to weight in on, someone out there remind me to check the site.

Thanks to each of you for all you do for students everyday.

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noradot
noradot
1. RE: Progress Monitoring
Feb 19 2007, 5:07 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 19 2007, 5:07 PM EST
Thanks Bev, for taking the time to offer your support. We would love to have you as part of the conversation whenever you can!
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adolin001
adolin001
2. RE: Progress Monitoring
Jan 23 2008, 2:54 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 23 2008, 2:54 PM EST
Progress monitoring is essential for determining instruction, but every two weeks seems a bit much. Maybe in time once I have mastered the K-3 reading model using the Scott Foresman program, I will be more efficient in time management. Do you find this valuable?