Teachers develop instruction strategies based on the prescription from the Pareto Analysis. The remediation can take the form of small group intervention or whole school college and career readiness programs — involves using study hall or home room time or half-a-credit ACT prep class. Depending on the approach, teachers use the personalized online content to help student's master the skills identified by the assessment.
Test prep strategies should come last. A few years ago, a study conducted in Illinois, highlighted the fact that students who were taught test-taking techniques during intervention showed a decrease in ACT scores. To avoid such outcomes, it is critical for teachers to focus most of their effort in teaching students the concepts that offer the most opportunity for improvement.
We provide teachers with access to online content they can use for classroom instruction. Most schools don't have the resources to deploy specialist teachers for the four subject areas tested on the ACT. In these cases, teachers can leverage our content and YouTube videos to teach students. Sample questions can be used as bell-ringers or concept checkers to engage students in meaningful discussion.
Our student reports identify areas of improvement and their impact on readiness. This provides teachers with the opportunity to use differentiated feedback to make significant impact in learning outcome. Our assessments help identify the common deficiencies for group of students and this aids in implementing a program with fidelity.
We support materials from leading prep provider so teachers can continue to leverage prep books they have purchased. These materials can serve as bell ringers, flash cards, lesson plans etc. Books from the following publishers are supported: McGraw Hill, Barron's, Kaplan, Wiley, Petersons, etc. These Holy Grail documents allow you to develop a best-in-class program tailored to meet your schools unique needs.
Over time schools identify and develop their master schedule to align specialist teachers to teach the four content areas tested: English, Math, Reading and Science. Students work with teachers to learn the concepts identified as focus areas. Programs span eight weeks where students spend two weeks with each of the specialist teachers.
The online platform allows teachers to configure their roster to review student performance on their top three improvement areas. The reports provide teachers with feedback on how much time students have spent practicing online content, percentage of content completed and proficiency in each of the improvement areas.
Teachers can view how students are spending their time during class. Are students completing the assigned task and gaining proficiency.