1. Ticket In *Tape in your Study Island Login Card into your folder
*Log into Study Island and explore student perspective

2. By the end of the Cluster Meeting, teachers will enhance their knowledge and understanding of Study Island to be implemented into the classroom.
*Learn about Study Island and Purpose for implementing at PEC
*Understand Technology-enhanced items designed to promote higher-order thinking and inquiry
*Explore Study Island from student perspective
Objective
Connection: Activities and Materials

3. What is Study Island?
Study Island provide students to master state-specific, grade-level academic standards in a fun and engaging manner. Study Island combines rigorous content that is highly customized to specific state standards in math, reading, writing, science, and social studies with interactive features and games that engage students and reinforce and reward learning achievement
Online resource used in 3rd-5th grades that provides student opportunity to master state-specific, grade-level academic standards in fun and engaging manner.

4. Topic (Alignment) Map
TAKE A LOOK IN FOLDER- for Alignment Map for your grade level. Teacher View- Select Core Program and you will be able to see Alignment Map of Common Core standards for Arizona. Positive- customize and re-organize for your scope and sequence (choose topic for students- Could be whole group instruction if desired) or Choose to have students work independently or at their own pace
Both teacher and student have access to view state standards

5. Study Island also provides instant feedback (students have access to reports and receive stars after completing assignments). Also, students have built in remediation. If a student does not pass (in this case 70% or higher) than they are automatically given a foundation skill to complete. It will continue to remediate until able to complete.
Symbols on Student Topic map give feedback and inform about remediation

6. Real-time progress monitoring- students and teachers have access to student performance. Content built directly from state and Common Core standards (Topic map- standards and built from) Real-time progress monitoring (Reports setting) Built in remediation (get any of the topics read aloud- text to speech feature they can access) Instant Feedback- Students given stars and now if problem is correct

8. Study Island is built using the Depth of Knowledge (DOK) guidelines, these item types ensure that each question is written to the appropriate difficulty and DOK level and students are exposed to the appropriate content.
What is the purpose?
ALSO comment how Study Island address Blooms Taxonomy. We know that the Arizona Career and College Ready Standards were adopted in 2010 to improve rigor. Thus, state testing also increased depth and rigor.
Why now?

9. Technology-enhanced item types designed to promote higher-order thinking and inquiry
ALSO posted on my Weebly website
* Resources- On Demand Webinar- Search Study Island- 10 types to promote critical thinking ( 8 minutes long)

10. Technology-enhanced item types designed to promote higher-order thinking and inquiry
Examples in the background (left) are directly taken from the AzMerit Practice Test for Grades 3-5
Multiple-Choice

11. Open Response Question
Technology-enhanced item types designed to promote higher-order thinking and inquiry
Students construct a response using evidence from the question or reading passage to support their view (goes along with Clusters and learning)
Open Response Question

12. Evidence-Based Selected Response Items
Technology-enhanced item types designed to promote higher-order thinking and inquiry
This type of item has multiple parts. All parts of the question should be answered and passage is on the left side of screen
Evidence-Based Selected Response Items

13. Technology-enhanced item types designed to promote higher-order thinking and inquiry
Multi-Select Problem

14. Technology-enhanced item types designed to promote higher-order thinking and inquiry
Hot Text items require you to either click on a response option or drag a response option to another location. Other great technology enhanced types of questions used to promote higher-order thinking and inquiry include: Cloze (drop down menu), Audio and Video
Hot Text Items

15. Technology-enhanced item types designed to promote higher-order thinking and inquiry
TAKE A LOOK IN FOLDER for 21st century Types of Items

16. Getting Started (Student)
*View student perspective by answer questions in game mode and practice mode
*If you want a guided view- website 4:05-12:00

17. *Each student in class will log into Study Island and complete diagnostic test by January 25th.
(10 weeks until AzMerit- March 28th)
Homework

18. *What is the purpose of implementing Study Island here at PEC?
*How was the student perspective helpful in learning about Study Island?
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