In this video, Middle School ELA teacher Mrs. Dear describes how utilizing I-ready, a technology-based evaluation solution provides scholars with a individualize personalized lessons just for them.
Mrs. Dear has already seen improvement in students test scores. “I’ve had students that jumped up by 58 points from one diagnostic to the next and the look on their face is priceless.“
Video Transcription:
AMS students have perseverance, they have endured a lot. Throughout the year we really challenged them, especially now with the i-Ready curriculum, we’re constantly pushing them to excel beyond their imagination. So where they thought they could end, I’m telling them just go a little bit further you can do it.
I love i-Ready, I wish I had it 4 years ago. It has given us the ability to not just see a snapshot of what our students can do, but now we can actually pinpoint the weakness that they have in the subject areas.
I can tell whether or not it’s comprehension or phonics, and then we can just really focus on that area and build their strength, and all the other areas as well.
i-Ready is technology-based, so as the students login, they get individualize personalized lessons just for them. Therefore, two students in the classroom might not be doing the same exact lesson and the same way. It is very unique, and the other features that I love about i-Ready is that I have multiple students at different learning levels and when they’re all together working in i-Ready, no one knows. No one knows that someone may be on the 5th grade reading level and someone else is in the mid 8 range and I think that the program really works.
i-Ready is very new to us this year especially here at AMS Flower. I was a little apprehensive when we first started because I was like “okay we had to learn Google Classroom… and then we went to Schoology…. are we going to keep i-Ready?” But then, once I went through the training and I started working with it, pulling the data and being able to literally show our students that this is not StudyIsland, this system is actually going to increase their potential.
I’ve had students that jumped up by 58 points from one diagnostic to the next and the look on their face is priceless.
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Six years ago, I began my career with AMS as a teacher. I was a middle school language arts teacher and I transition from middle school language arts to an Assistant Principal position with the Camelback campus. Three years ago, was asked to become Principal and serve the community at AMS Flower and so three years ago I became the Principal at the Academy of Math and Science.
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