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    This document summarizes the author's student teaching placement at Solomon Elementary School on Schofield Army Base in Hawaii. It provides details about the author's fourth grade classroom, which includes military-affiliated students who face transitions. It also notes that Solomon Elementary is a Title I school. The document then discusses I-Ready, an assessment and instruction program used by the school. Test results from I-Ready diagnostics in math show most students are below grade level. The classroom and school have implemented strategies like small group interventions and online support to help students, especially in math, meet their growth goals on future I-Ready assessments.

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    This document summarizes the author's student teaching placement at Solomon Elementary School on Schofield Army Base in Hawaii. It provides details about the author's fourth grade classroom, which includes military-affiliated students who face transitions. It also notes that Solomon Elementary is a Title I school. The document then discusses I-Ready, an assessment and instruction program used by the school. Test results from I-Ready diagnostics in math show most students are below grade level. The classroom and school have implemented strategies like small group interventions and online support to help students, especially in math, meet their growth goals on future I-Ready assessments.

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    This document summarizes the author's student teaching placement at Solomon Elementary School on Schofield Army Base in Hawaii. It provides details about the author's fourth grade classroom, which includes military-affiliated students who face transitions. It also notes that Solomon Elementary is a Title I school. The document then discusses I-Ready, an assessment and instruction program used by the school. Test results from I-Ready diagnostics in math show most students are below grade level. The classroom and school have implemented strategies like small group interventions and online support to help students, especially in math, meet their growth goals on future I-Ready assessments.

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    Tiffany Scott

    EDEE 490 & 492


    April 20, y

    Assignment #1
    How well do you know your community?

    This semester I have been placed at Solomon Elementary located on Schofield

    Army base. I am placed in a fourth grade classroom that contains 12 girls and 7 boys.

    As a military spouse, with military children, I understand the challenges that military

    families face. With one or both parents being in the military these children are often in

    transition, moving every 2-3 years and dealing with a parent who is often gone for work

    for extended amounts of time. Solomon Elementary is also a title one school due to the

    fact over 47% of the school qualifies for free or reduced lunch. This fourth grade

    classroom is also the designated ELL classroom which contains 6 ELL students. My

    placement also has 1 SPED student and a fully self contained student.

    Solomon Elementary currently uses i-ready as one of their ways to assess students

    throughout different grade levels.Students are assessed at least three times, at the

    beginning, middle and end of the school year. I have found that I-ready seems to be

    pretty popular as an assessment tool as I’ve seen it used in Florida, Colorado, New

    York and now Hawaii. According to the i-ready website “i-Ready is a comprehensive

    assessment and instruction program that empowers educators with the resources they

    need to help all students succeed.” I-ready pinpoints a students strengths while giving

    insight to areas where they need more help. Once a Diagnostic test is taken i-ready

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    then tailors instructional lessons to each students academic level. The data collected

    from these assessments can help teachers help spot trends among students and

    provided differentiated instruction.

    My fourth grade class was given a diagnostic i-ready math test at the beginning of the

    school year. This diagnostic test assessed students on number and operations, algebra

    and algebraic thinking, measurement and data and geometry. The data from this test

    concluded that out of 19 students, 1 student was on or above grade level, 13 students

    are one grade level below, 3 students are two grade levels below, and 2 are three or

    more grade levels below. I think it’s also important to mention the fact the students were

    basically out of school from mid march- august due to covid. My mentor also told me it

    can be typical to see lower than average score on the very first assessment at the

    beginning of the school year.

    There are several instructional strategies currently or will be put into place to address

    the needs of those students who have scored below grade level. Calendar math has

    been added in daily aligning with the fourth grade standards. Also there are small group

    interventions Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 11:45- 1215. For the

    students doing math at home on their designated rotating online days there will be exit

    tickets, quick checks and quizzes used to check for content knowledge. There is also

    time allowed online for students in the classroom or at home to log into google meets for

    any extra help they may need with assignments daily.

    The specific goal in math this year for this classroom is for each student to make at

    least one years growth in mathematics measured by the I-ready diagnostics. To break

    this goal down even further the students who scored two grade levels or below are

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    expected to increase their score by 20% and the students who scored one score below

    are expected to increase their goal by 15%. When I was discussing these goals with my

    mentor she said that as an entire school, they are focused on bringing up math scores

    this year. The school as a whole is engaged in doing what they can to not only support

    the students but the teachers as well, in bringing up the math i-ready assessment

    scores.

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