Lisa McGilloway
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:49:55 -0800
Thanks for those answers, Jeanne. I too agree that we are spending way too much time testing students when we could be teaching them. Thanks to our state and federal governments for that. When will they ask teachers how to handle these things? Lisa
--- On Sun, 2/7/10, Jeanne Crider <jeann...@charter.net> wrote: From: Jeanne Crider <jeann...@charter.net> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] RTI - Any info on AIMS Web? To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Date: Sunday, February 7, 2010, 9:39 PM I'm not a classroom teacher, I'm a reading specialist. We use Everyday Math and I know the 1st grade teachers I work with don't like the math portion of the AIMS Web. Generating reports is very easy but as others mentioned earlier, we already have information about who needs help and who is doing okay. It's just 3 days per year I don't get to teach because I'm testing. Between benchmarking 3 times per year and all the progress monitoring the teachers have to do, there is less time for them to teach too. The poor students are yet again tested. The poor things, in my opinion are already over tested. After giving the AIMS Web, in my school anyway, we then pick interventions that are "researched based" one size fits all programs. They may be implemented by a teacher, a 5th grader, a HS student, a computer program or just about anyone or anything they can get their hands on. Isn't that grand! Another thing that someone else mentioned, I'm noticing too. It seems like the students who we see as doing well in the classroom don't necessarily do well on the test and vice versa. Students who self-correct while reading or think about meaning don't do as well because the timed reading portion is all based on speed. Isn't that what we want students to do when they are reading, read really fast and not think about what they are reading? (JK!) Argh! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisa McGilloway" <lisamcgill...@yahoo.com> To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 2:29 PM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] RTI - Any info on AIMS Web? Thanks so much for the response about AIMS web. If you have a minute I have a few other questions: Do you find it easy to use and generate reports? What do you think of the comprehension piece (not sure what a comprehension 'maze' is?)? What about the Math portion? We use Everyday Math and I am curious as to how it may correlate with that. Thanks so much for any information you can share! Lisa --- On Sun, 2/7/10, Yingling <yingli...@frontiernet.net> wrote: From: Yingling <yingli...@frontiernet.net> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] RTI - Any info on AIMS Web? To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Date: Sunday, February 7, 2010, 1:35 PM We've been using AIMSWeb for 3 years now for at least K-5 (I think maybe higher also). The fluency CBMs are just like DIBELS. Aimsweb also has a comprehension maze test and a couple of math tests. It gives a lot of reports as to how a student is doing based on class, school, etc... It's an okay start as to identifying students for RTI services. I don't think you should use it solely to place students into RTI intervention groups. _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.