I have a friend Carolyn Hinshaw that operates her own site: http://www.rightinclass.com. She teaches 5th grade in the Bellingham WA school district.
Within her site she has a teacher tools page with examples of how she uses Excel to help monitor and assess student progress. There is a reading/writing example: http://rightinclass.com/integrate/teacher_tools.htm. While it may seem complicated to use this sort of electronic format, the nice thing is that she can easily sort students for remediation. For example, she can sort for students scoring "2" in "Finding Main Idea" and pull them out for special small group instruction. The other nice thing is that the school district uses a "Mail Merge" feature for the report card so teacher notes and key area scores are merged directly on the student report card without the need to get out the pen and rewrite everything. I've used the same sort of system and mail merge in my middle school classes to send out individualized progress reports to keep parents and students updated on what the individual student has accomplished and what s/he needs to work on. We both found having a laptop or PDA works best so that you can input data right as you work with individuals or groups. Keith Mack [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.literacyworkshop.org _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] 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.
