Workshop for Literacy Correctional Education Week 1

 Data Driven Instruction is the process of making choices about curriculum and instruction based on the appropriate analysis of relevant information  Collecting analyzing and using data to design curriculum, instruction and assessments in order to improve student progress and school performance.

 The use of relevant data to make decisions about curriculum and instruction lets educators identify needs, test hypotheses regarding learning, and measure achievement.  The use of data helps to provide more individualized instruction to students, identify successful instructional strategies, allocate curricular resources and identify professional development

 Lack of training is the primary obstacle  Interoperability – systems that are unable to use or share data  Lack of understanding of what to do with data  Absence of clear priorities  Failure to collect data  Inadequate data  Time constraints

 Data Driven Instruction can be divided into three functional areas: 1. Collection, integration and dissemination of data 2. Reporting and analysis of data 3. Action taken in response to the data

 The district has established Standards and Benchmarks (snapshots of where students are with regard to the progress measured by a series of TABE tests  Teaching interventions include: 1) Skills that should be reemphasized 2) Diagnostics that may be used 3) Cohort groups (students who have similar achievement gaps that should be developed.) 4) Differentiated instruction 5) Adjusted curriculum 6) Presentation of information

Measured by TABE Achievement tests Teaching interventions should be based on the needs of students Skills should be reemphasized Additional diagnostics and teaching strategies may be used

The individual achievements as an entire class is presented in the class mastery report using this format

Or this one…to be analyzed and determine achievement of each student and the class as a whole

 Requires that teachers be flexible in their approach to teaching  Adjust the curriculum and presentation of information  Vary instructional approaches to what the data says is the need of a student or the needs of a class

Student access to content is key. The data informs educators about the content a student needs to master  Tasks and objectives are aligned to the learning goals:  Written in incremental steps that result in a continuum of skill or content building tasks  A learning objective driven plan makes it easier for teacher and student to find the next instructional step for learners who are working at different levels or different content objectives.