1. Simple Strategies for Monitoring Student Growth: Validate yourself!!
Niki Bray
Memphis Central High School
DLD 9/20/13
Southwind High School

2. Objectives:
Provide teachers with simple strategies to monitor student growth.
Encourage teachers to share strategies used in their classrooms.
Discuss the importance of validating instructional strategies.

3. Evaluation connections:
TEACH 1 –
All students can describe how their learning will be assessed.
TEACH 3 –
Teacher engages students in appropriately challenging work by:
• ensuring the lesson includes appropriately complex text, tasks, and activities that
move students beyond their current mastery level
• ensuring all students (at low, middle, and high achieving levels) move beyond
current mastery levels

4. Strategies: Pre/Post Test Record Forms with Rubrics.
GradeCam (

5. 4 - Mastery: Student can perform 9 or more out of 10 correctly.2 3 4 2 3 4
Pre-test Score 2 3 4
Post-test Score 2 3 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 4 4 3 2 3 4 3 3 4 4 3 4 3 4 4 4 4 2 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 2 2 4 2 3 4 2 3 4 2 3 4
Scoring Rubric:
4 - Mastery: Student can perform 9 or more out of 10 correctly.
3 - Proficient: Student can perform 7 or more out of 10 correctly.
2 - Emerging: Student can perform 5 or more out of 10 correctly.
1 - Beginning: Student can perform less than 5 out of 10 correctly.

6. 4 - Mastery: Student can perform 9 or more out of 10 correctly.2
Pre-test Score 3
Post-test Score
Scoring Rubric:
4 - Mastery: Student can perform 9 or more out of 10 correctly.
3 - Proficient: Student can perform 7 or more out of 10 correctly.
2 - Emerging: Student can perform 5 or more out of 10 correctly.
1 - Beginning: Student can perform less than 5 out of 10 correctly.

7. GRADECAM An excellent way to organize data and view results.
There is a free version (10 question limit).
Great way to use charts and graphs to illustrate student growth.

14. Thank you!
Contact Information:
Niki Bray