With schools back in full swing, educators are doing their best to make up for lost instructional time and learning loss due to the pandemic. Rapid recovery requires harnessing strategies that get to growth fast!
One way to do that? Frequently monitoring the progress of your students. If you’re only testing at the beginning, middle, and end of the year, there’s lots of time in the in-between for them to fall behind, which makes catching them up and keeping them on grade level much harder.
On this episode of the Istation Podcast, host Courtney Echerd talked to Istation’s professional development lead Alicia Pruitt, PhD. They dug into how educators are trying to make up for lost time through accelerated learning and progress monitoring.
In her professional development role, Pruitt works with educators, principals, and superintendents. As a former teacher, she affected change in her classroom, and when she moved to the district level, she did the same. Her scope is much broader now, and she hopes to make an impact throughout the state and even the country.
“I think it’s really finding those strengths to help those students become better,” Pruitt said. “And to become better readers, better mathematicians, better at whatever area of academic place they’re working in.”
Listen to the podcast here to get insights on why frequent progress monitoring is one of the best ways for teachers to keep a pulse on students’ growth. Plus, find out the best ways to accelerate learning in an environment where every student has gaps to close.